Common use of Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc Clause in Contracts

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any Person, except that: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assets, so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 and (B) 2.0% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (iv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (y), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]; (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventory, (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth in, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

Appears in 5 contracts

Samples: Second Lien Term Loan Credit Agreement (PAE Inc), Second Lien Term Loan Credit Agreement (PAE Inc), Second Lien Term Loan Credit Agreement (PAE Inc)

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Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower Borrowers will not, and will not permit any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any saleSale-leaseback transactions of any PersonLeaseback Transaction, except that: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assetsassets (including Equity Interests), so long as as, (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than the greater of $10,000,00025,000,000 and 1.75% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the time of such sale), at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Lead Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities securities, notes, other obligations or assets received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, (C) consideration consisting of Indebtedness of Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary that is not Subordinated Indebtedness received from such transferee, (D) accounts receivable of a business retained by Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, following the sale of such business; provided that such accounts receivable (1) are not past due more than 90 days and (C2) do not have a payment date greater than 120 days from the date of the invoices creating such accounts receivable and (E) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 60,000,000 and (B) 2.04.50% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration Consideration) (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (iv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead a Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead a Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead a Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party Subsidiary Guarantor (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead a Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead a Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign other Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead a Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead a Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (yvi), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain not be impaired in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent any material respect as in effect immediately prior to a result of such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]any disposition of (i) Securitization Assets arising in connection with a Qualified Securitization Transaction or (ii) the Receivables Assets arising in connection with a Receivables Facility, in each case, permitted by Section 10.04; (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventoryinventory in the ordinary course of business, (B) goods held for sale in the ordinary course of business and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than the greater of $10,000,000 in 25,000,000 and 1.75% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the ordinary course time of businesssuch sale or lease, as applicable); (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (wx) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, Subsidiaries and (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred sold or otherwise disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions (a) involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash and fair market value (as determined by Lead Borrower) or (b) with respect to any other Sale-Leaseback Transactions not described in subclause (xii)(a), having an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the aggregate fair market value not in excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any greater of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any $14,000,000 and 1.00% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the time of such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(dTransaction); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents (or other assets that were Cash Equivalents when the relevant Investment was made) to make payments that are not otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07prohibited by this Agreement; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, ; provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary in joint ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth inbetween, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiarybinding arrangements; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders (or such other percentage of the Lenders as may be required by Section 10.02) waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead a Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereofGuarantor), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, to take any actions deemed appropriate by them in order to effect the foregoing.

Appears in 4 contracts

Samples: First Lien Term Loan Credit Agreement (VERRA MOBILITY Corp), First Lien Term Loan Credit Agreement (VERRA MOBILITY Corp), First Lien Term Loan Credit Agreement (VERRA MOBILITY Corp)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any saleSale-leaseback transactions of any PersonLeaseback Transaction, except that: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assetsassets (including Equity Interests), so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than the greater of $10,000,00030,000,000 and 6.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for the most recently ended Test Period, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities securities, notes, other obligations or assets received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted convertible by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, (C) consideration consisting of Indebtedness of the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary that is not Subordinated Indebtedness received from such transferee, (D) accounts receivable of a business retained by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, following the sale of such business; provided that such accounts receivable (1) are not past due more than 90 days and (C2) do not have a payment date greater than 120 days from the date of the invoices creating such accounts receivable and (E) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A1) $25,000,000 150,000,000 and (B2) 2.030.0% of Consolidated Total Assets EBITDA of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for the most recently ended Test Period (measured at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration Consideration) (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (iv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party Subsidiary Guarantor (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign other Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (yvi), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain not be impaired in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent any material respect as in effect immediately prior to a result of such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]; (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventoryinventory in the ordinary course of business, (B) goods held for sale in the ordinary course of business and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than the greater of $10,000,000 in 25,000,000 and 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the ordinary course Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for the most recently ended Test Period (measured at the time of businesssuch sale or lease, as applicable); (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (wx) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (xy) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of the greater of (A) $7,500,000, 50,000,000 and (yB) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 3010.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the aggregate consideration paid Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such Permitted Acquisitionthe most recently ended Test Period (measured at the time of disposition thereof), and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions (a) involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received and fair market value (as determined by the Lead Borrower Borrower) or (b) with respect to any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such other Sale-Leaseback Transaction from Transactions not described in subclause (xii)(a), having an aggregate fair market value not in excess of the greater of $25,000,000 and after such time as when 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds for the most recently ended Test Period (measured at the time of at least $20,000,000 from all such Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(dTransaction); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon abandon, allow to lapse or expire or otherwise become invalid Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents (or other assets that were Cash Equivalents when the relevant Investment was made) to make payments that are not otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07prohibited by this Agreement; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, ; provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05.; (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary in joint ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth inbetween, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiarybinding arrangements; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” (or the equivalent under other applicable law) or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and; (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03; and (xxvii) dispositions or other transactions undertaken in good faith for Tax planning purposes, so long as after giving effect to such dispositions or other transactions, the security interest of the Collateral Agent in the Collateral for the benefit of the Secured Creditors is not materially impaired. To the extent the Required Lenders (or such other percentage of the Lenders as may be required by this Section 10.02) waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereofGuarantor), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, to take any actions deemed appropriate by them in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Term Loan Credit Agreement (Vertiv Holdings Co), Term Loan Credit Agreement (Vertiv Holdings Co), Term Loan Credit Agreement (Vertiv Holdings Co)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Each of the Lead Borrower will not, and any Restricted Subsidiary will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger merger, amalgamation or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any Person, except that: (i) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may consummate the transactions contemplated under the Restructuring Memo; (ii) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (iiiii) the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell assetsassets (and, so long as a new Borrowing Base Certificate is delivered in connection with such sale, assets of a type that would otherwise be included in the Borrowing Base), so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A1) $25,000,000 20,000,000 and (B2) 2.01.00% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iiiiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property property, excluding Intellectual Property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (ivv) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable Ineligible Accounts arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (vvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted SubsidiariesSubsidiary, including of Intellectual Property; (vivii) (wx) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state State thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, (A) the Lead Borrower shall have notified the Lenders in writing of the identity of the surviving Person and (B) the Person surviving such Person transaction shall have (I) expressly assumes, in writing, assumed all of the rights and obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant in a manner reasonably satisfactory to an assumption agreement Administrative Agent and (II) made representations and delivered opinions of counsel (unless Administrative Agent shall have indicated that no such opinion of counsel is required), in each case, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, as to the valid existence of such Person, as to the power and authorization of such Person to assume such rights and obligations and as to the validity and binding nature of the Credit Documents on such Person) or any other Credit Party (Domestic Subsidiary so long as the surviving or continuing Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company company, unlimited liability company, or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, amalgamation, consolidation or liquidation if one of the applicable Domestic Subsidiaries was a Subsidiary Guarantor prior to such merger, amalgamation, consolidation or liquidation), (xy) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower (other than a Canadian Credit Party) may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving or continuing corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (yz) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving or continuing corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidationliquidation or, as applicable, the Person surviving or continuing following such merger, consolidation or amalgamation is the successor in rights and obligations of such Credit Party); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (yvii), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests and Liens granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in and on the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (viiviii) [reservedReserved]; (viiiix) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may make sales or leases of (A) of inventory, (B) of goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 20,000,000 in each fiscal year, in each case in the ordinary course of business; (ixx) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell or otherwise dispose of (ix) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (iiy) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted SubsidiariesSubsidiary; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as which assets (wx) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000Subsidiary, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 3020% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xixii) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a any Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xiixiii) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) a transfer or deposition of Receivables Transaction Assets in connection with a Permitted Receivables Transaction; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xvxvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may make transfers of property subject to casualty casualty, expropriation or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvixvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, which in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each determination of the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary are not material to the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services AgreementsSubsidiary taken as a whole; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Swap Contracts; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may use cash terminate leases and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07subleases; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may use cash and Cash Equivalents for any purpose not otherwise prohibited; (xxii) each of the Lead Borrower or its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxiixxiii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, ; provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05.Subsidiary; (xxiiixxiv) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted in Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary Ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth inbetween, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiarybinding arrangements; (xxivxxv) transfers of condemned or expropriated property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned or expropriated the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation condemnation, expropriation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property Real Property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxvxxvi) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvixxvii) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03; (xxviii) sales or other dispositions of Real Property of the Credit Parties so long as no Event of Default exists or would result therefrom; (xxix) the sale of any property covered by a Capitalized Lease Obligation in connection with the termination of such Capitalized Lease Obligations; and (xxx) other dispositions so long as the Payment Conditions are met. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a any Restricted Subsidiary thereofSubsidiary), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

Appears in 3 contracts

Samples: Credit Agreement (Ryerson Holding Corp), Credit Agreement (Ryerson Holding Corp), Credit Agreement (Ryerson Holding Corp)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower Holdings will not, and will not permit any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any saleSale-leaseback transactions of any PersonLeaseback Transaction, except that: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assetsassets (including Equity Interests), so long as as, (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower Holdings or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than the greater of $10,000,00031,800,000 and 10% of LTM Consolidated EBITDA (measured at the time of such sale), at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s Holdings’ or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities securities, notes, other obligations or assets received by such Borrower Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower Holdings or any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 63,600,000 and (B) 2.020.0% of LTM Consolidated Total Assets EBITDA (measured at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration Consideration) (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii10.04(iv)); (iv) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases subleases, including of Intellectual Property, to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower Holdings or any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Holdings may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into Holdings or the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not Holdings or the Lead Borrower, as applicable, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of Holdings or the Lead Borrower Borrower, as applicable, under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party Subsidiary Guarantor (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead BorrowerHoldings, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower Holdings may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign other Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation Holdings and (y) any Foreign Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower Holdings may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (yvi), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain not be impaired in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent any material respect as in effect immediately prior to a result of such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]each of Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries may make any disposition of (i) Securitization Assets arising in connection with a Qualified Securitization Transaction or (ii) the Receivables Assets arising in connection with a Receivables Facility, in each case, permitted by Section 10.04; (viii) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventoryinventory in the ordinary course of business, (B) goods held for sale in the ordinary course of business and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than the greater of $10,000,000 31,800,000 and 10.0% of LTM Consolidated EBITDA (measured at the time of such sale or lease, as applicable) in the ordinary course of businessaggregate in any fiscal year, with unused amounts permitted to be carried forward to succeeding fiscal years; (ix) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus surplus, damaged or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (wx) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of Holdings and the Lead Borrower Restricted Subsidiaries and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred sold or otherwise disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Holdings may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions (a) involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash and fair market value (as determined by Holdings) or (b) with respect to any other Sale-Leaseback Transactions not described in subclause (xii)(a), having an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the aggregate fair market value not in excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any greater of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any $31,800,000 and 10% of LTM Consolidated EBITDA (measured at the time of such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(dTransaction); (xiii) [reservedintentionally omitted]; (xiv) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower Holdings or any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower Holdings or any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents (or other assets that were Cash Equivalents when the relevant Investment was made) to make payments that are not otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07prohibited by this Agreement; (xxi) each of Holdings or the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings)Parties, (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, ; provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05.; (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary in joint ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth inbetween, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiarybinding arrangements; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and; (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03; (xxvii) dispositions of spare satellites not in orbit on the Closing Date and related satellite capacity, teleports, hubs, modems, antennae, handheld and similar devices and spectrum (including leases of spectrum), services or accounts receivable and sales or dispositions of rights to construct or launch satellites (or satellite payload or components); (xxviii) any swap of owned or leased satellite transponder capacity for other satellite transponder capacity of comparable or greater value or usefulness to the business of Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries as a whole, as determined in good faith by Holdings; (xxix) sales or dispositions of rights to construct or launch satellites (or satellite payload or component); (i) the sale, lease or other transfer of products, equipment, inventory (including, without limitation, satellite capacity, transponders, transponder capacity, teleports, hubs, modems, antennae, handheld and similar devices and spectrum (including leases of spectrum)), services or accounts receivable in the ordinary course of business and (ii) the discount or forgiveness of accounts receivable in the ordinary course of business in connection with the collection or compromise thereof; and (xxxi) the positioning of any satellite in an inclined orbit or the abandonment or other disposition or sale of any satellite (or satellite payload or component) that is in the reasonable good faith judgment of Holdings, no longer economically practicable or reasonable to maintain. To the extent the Required Lenders (or such other percentage of the Lenders as may be required by this Section 10.02) waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereofCredit Party), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, to take any actions deemed appropriate by them in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Credit Agreement (Iridium Communications Inc.), Credit Agreement (Iridium Communications Inc.), Credit Agreement (Iridium Communications Inc.)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower will not, and nor will not it permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any Person, except thatexcept: (ia) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamationsales of inventory in the ordinary course of business; (iib) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assetssale, so long as (x) each such sale abandonment or other disposition of obsolete, uneconomic, damaged or worn-out property or property that is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower otherwise no longer used or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), (y) useful in the case ordinary course of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 and (B) 2.0% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d)business; (iiic) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (iv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell sale or discount, in each case without recourse and in the ordinary course of business, of accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transactiontransaction or bulk sale; (vd) each the granting of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases (including, without limitation, leases and subleases of Real Property and non-exclusive licenses of patents, trademarks, copyrights and other intellectual property rights) to other Persons that do not materially interfering with impair the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vie) the use or transfer of cash or Cash Equivalents in a manner that is not prohibited by the terms of the Credit Documents; (wf) the granting of Permitted Liens, the making of Investments to the extent permitted by Section 9.05 and the making of Dividends to the extent permitted by the Credit Documents; (g) any Domestic Subsidiary involuntary loss, damage or destruction of property which is covered by adequate insurance; (h) any involuntary condemnation, seizure or taking, by exercise of the Lead power of eminent domain or otherwise, or confiscation or requisition of use of property; (i) the sale or issuance of equity interests to the extent permitted by the Credit Documents; (i) the lapse of registered patents, trademarks, copyrights and other intellectual property of the Borrower may be mergedor any Subsidiary to the extent not commercially desirable in the conduct of its business or (ii) the abandonment of patents, consolidatedtrademarks, dissolvedcopyrights or other intellectual property rights in the ordinary course of business; (k) the expiration of leasehold interests or the termination of leasehold interests; (l) sales, amalgamated trades, leases, subleases and other dispositions of non-Collateral assets; (m) sales, trades, leases, subleases or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower other dispositions of assets not otherwise permitted in clauses (a) through (l) above, so long as (i) each such disposition is made at fair market value and (ii) the surviving Person aggregate fair market value of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws all assets disposed of the United States of America, in any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is one fiscal year does not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agentexceed $250,000; (n) or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may merge with and into, or be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated dissolved or liquidated with into, or into transfer any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead its assets to Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that which is an Excluded Subsidiary, a Subsidiary Guarantor so long as (i) in the case of any such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary merger, dissolution or such Excluded Subsidiaryliquidation involving Borrower, as applicable, Borrower is the surviving corporation of any such merger, consolidationdissolution or liquidation, dissolution(ii) in all other cases, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party which is a Subsidiary Guarantor is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidationdissolution or liquidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (y), so long as (Iiii) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any the security interests granted to Lender pursuant to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors Security Documents in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction Subsidiary shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation dissolution or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]; (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventory, (B) goods held for sale and (Civ) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired any such transaction pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating which any consideration is paid to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary Person that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Borrower, such consideration shall be permitted to be paid at such time only to the extent required by, or made that it could otherwise have been paid pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between (and Borrower shall be required to satisfy the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth in, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxivprovisions of) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwiseSection 8.15 and Section 9.05(h), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02applicable; and (xxviA) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions any Subsidiary of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, Borrower that has no assets or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 liabilities (other than immaterial assets or liabilities) may be dissolved or liquidated, (B) any Subsidiary of Borrower may merge with and into, or be dissolved or liquidated into, or transfer any or all of its assets to, a Subsidiary of Borrower so long as (i) in the case of any such transfer, merger, dissolution or liquidation involving a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary, a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Borrower is the surviving entity of any such transaction and (ii) in the case of any such transaction pursuant to which any consideration is paid to a Person that is neither Borrower nor a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary thereof, such consideration shall be permitted to be paid at such time only to the Lead extent that it could otherwise have been paid pursuant to (and Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereofshall be required to satisfy the provisions of) Section 8.15 and Section 9.05(h), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documentsas applicable, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take (C) any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoingForeign Subsidiary may merge into another Foreign Subsidiary.

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Samples: Credit Agreement (National Research Corp), Credit Agreement (National Research Corp)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower Borrowers will not, and will not permit any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any saleSale-leaseback transactions of any PersonLeaseback Transaction, except that: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assetsassets (including Equity Interests), so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or (including Equity Interests Interests) having a fair market value of more than the greater of $10,000,00011,250,000 and 1.00% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the time of such sale), at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Lead Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities securities, notes, other obligations or assets received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, (C) consideration consisting of Indebtedness of Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary that is not Subordinated Indebtedness received from such transferee, (D) accounts receivable of a business retained by Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, following the sale of such business; provided that such accounts receivable (1) are not past due more than 90 days and (C2) do not have a payment date greater than 120 days from the date of the invoices creating such accounts receivable and (E) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 54,000,000 and (B) 2.04.50% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration Consideration) (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (iv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead a Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead a Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead a Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party Subsidiary Guarantor (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead a Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead a Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign other Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead a Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead a Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (yvi), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain not be impaired in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent any material respect as in effect immediately prior to a result of such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]any disposition of (i) Securitization Assets arising in connection with a Qualified Securitization Transaction or (ii) the Receivables Assets arising in connection with a Receivables Facility, in each case, permitted by Section 10.04(xxiv); (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventoryinventory in the ordinary course of business, (B) goods held for sale in the ordinary course of business and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than the greater of $10,000,000 in 11,250,000 and 1.00% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the ordinary course time of businesssuch sale or lease, as applicable); (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (wx) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (xy) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of the greater of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 3021,000,000 and 1.75% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the aggregate consideration paid for time of such Permitted Acquisitionsale or other disposition), and (z) such assets are sold, transferred sold or otherwise disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions (a) involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash and fair market value (as determined by Lead Borrower) or (b) with respect to any other Sale-Leaseback Transactions not described in subclause (xii)(a), having an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the aggregate fair market value not in excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any greater of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any $11,250,000 and 1.00% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the time of such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(dTransaction); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services AgreementsSwap Contracts; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents (or other assets that were Cash Equivalents when the relevant Investment was made) to make payments that are not otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07prohibited by this Agreement; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, ; provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05.; (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary in joint ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth inbetween, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiarybinding arrangements; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders (or such other percentage of the Lenders as may be required by Section 10.02) waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead a Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereofGuarantor), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, to take any actions deemed appropriate by them in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Revolving Credit Agreement (VERRA MOBILITY Corp), Revolving Credit Agreement (VERRA MOBILITY Corp)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower Holdings will not, and will not permit any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any PersonSale‑Leaseback Transaction, except that: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assetsassets (including Equity Interests), so long as as, (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower Holdings or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than the greater of $10,000,00044,300,000 and 10% of LTM Consolidated EBITDA (measured at the time of such sale), at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s Holdings’ or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities securities, notes, other obligations or assets received by such Borrower Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower Holdings or any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 88,600,000 and (B) 2.020.0% of LTM Consolidated Total Assets EBITDA (measured at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration Consideration) (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii10.04(iv)); (iv) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases subleases, including of Intellectual Property, to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower Holdings or any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Holdings may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into Holdings or the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not Holdings or the Lead Borrower, as applicable, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of Holdings or the Lead Borrower Borrower, as applicable, under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party Subsidiary Guarantor (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead BorrowerHoldings, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower Holdings may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign other Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation Holdings and (y) any Foreign Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower Holdings may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (yvi), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain not be impaired in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent any material respect as in effect immediately prior to a result of such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]each of Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries may make any disposition of (i) Securitization Assets arising in connection with a Qualified Securitization Transaction or (ii) the Receivables Assets arising in connection with a Receivables Facility, in each case, permitted by Section 10.04; (viii) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventoryinventory in the ordinary course of business, (B) goods held for sale in the ordinary course of business and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than the greater of $10,000,000 44,300,000 and 10.0% of LTM Consolidated EBITDA (measured at the time of such sale or lease, as applicable) in the ordinary course of businessaggregate in any fiscal year, with unused amounts permitted to be carried forward to succeeding fiscal years; (ix) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus surplus, damaged or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (wx) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of Holdings and the Lead Borrower Restricted Subsidiaries and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred sold or otherwise disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Holdings may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Sale‑Leaseback Transactions (a) involving real property acquired after the Original Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash and fair market value (as determined by Holdings) or (b) with respect to any other Sale‑Leaseback Transactions not described in subclause (xii)(a), having an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the aggregate fair market value not in excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any greater of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any $44,300,000 and 10% of LTM Consolidated EBITDA (measured at the time of such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(dTransaction); (xiii) [reservedintentionally omitted]; (xiv) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower Holdings or any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower Holdings or any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents (or other assets that were Cash Equivalents when the relevant Investment was made) to make payments that are not otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07prohibited by this Agreement; (xxi) each of Holdings or the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings)Parties, (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, ; provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05.; (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary in joint ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth inbetween, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiarybinding arrangements; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and; (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03; (xxvii) dispositions of spare satellites not in orbit on the Amendment and Restatement Effective Date and related satellite capacity, teleports, hubs, modems, antennae, handheld and similar devices and spectrum (including leases of spectrum), services or accounts receivable and sales or dispositions of rights to construct or launch satellites (or satellite payload or components); (xxviii) any swap of owned or leased satellite transponder capacity for other satellite transponder capacity of comparable or greater value or usefulness to the business of Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries as a whole, as determined in good faith by Holdings; (xxix) sales or dispositions of rights to construct or launch satellites (or satellite payload or component); (i) the sale, lease or other transfer of products, equipment, inventory (including, without limitation, satellite capacity, transponders, transponder capacity, teleports, hubs, modems, antennae, handheld and similar devices and spectrum (including leases of spectrum)), services or accounts receivable in the ordinary course of business and (ii) the discount or forgiveness of accounts receivable in the ordinary course of business in connection with the collection or compromise thereof; and (xxxi) the positioning of any satellite in an inclined orbit or the abandonment or other disposition or sale of any satellite (or satellite payload or component) that is in the reasonable good faith judgment of Holdings, no longer economically practicable or reasonable to maintain. To the extent the Required Lenders (or such other percentage of the Lenders as may be required by this Section 10.02) waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereofCredit Party), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, to take any actions deemed appropriate by them in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Credit Agreement (Iridium Communications Inc.), Credit Agreement (Iridium Communications Inc.)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. (a) The Lead Borrower will may not, and will directly or indirectly: consolidate or merge with or into another Person (whether or not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate the Borrower is the surviving corporation) or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease assign, transfer, convey or otherwise dispose of all or any part substantially all of the properties or assets of the Borrower or its property Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole, in one or assetsmore related transactions, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any to another Person; in each case, except thatunless: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assets, so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be casheither: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s the Borrower is the surviving corporation; or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) the Person formed by or surviving any securities received by such Borrower consolidation or merger (if other than the Borrower) or to which such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower assignment, transfer, conveyance or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 and (B) 2.0% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (iv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation disposition has been made is a corporation, partnership or limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of AmericaStates, any state thereof of the United States or the District of Columbia andColumbia; (ii) the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than the Borrower) or the Person to which such sale, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrowerassignment, such Person expressly assumestransfer, in writing, conveyance or other disposition has been made assumes all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form joinder agreements or other documents and substance agreements reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent; (iii) immediately after such transaction, no Default or Event of Default exists; and (iv) (A) the Borrower or the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than the Borrower), or to which such sale, assignment, transfer, conveyance or other disposition has been made will, on the date of such transaction after giving pro forma effect thereto and any related financing transactions as if the same had occurred at the beginning of the applicable four-quarter period, be permitted to incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness pursuant to the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio test set forth in Section 10.04(a) or any other Credit Party (so long as B) the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than the Borrower) is greater after giving pro forma effect to such consolidation or merger and any related financing transactions as if the same had occurred at the beginning of the applicable Test Period than the Borrower’s actual Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the period. (b) A Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently may not sell or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its assets to, or consolidate with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated merge with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign (whether or not such Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, Guarantor is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (yPerson), so long as another Person, other than the Borrower or another Subsidiary Guarantor, unless: (Ii) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto to that transaction, no Default or Event of Default exists; and (ii) either: (A) the Person acquiring the property in any such sale or disposition or the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger assumes all the obligations of that Subsidiary Guarantor under this Agreement and the other Credit Documents on terms and pursuant to documentation reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent; or (IIB) immediately after giving effect to that transaction, such Person qualifies as an Excluded Subsidiary and any Investments and or Asset Sales effected in connection with such transaction are otherwise permitted by, and treated as, Restricted Payments under Section 10.03, Investments under Section 10.05 and/or Asset Sales under Section 10.08, as applicable. (c) In addition, the Borrower may not, and shall not permit any Subsidiary Guarantor to, directly or indirectly, lease all or substantially all of the properties or assets of the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors, taken as a whole, in one or more related transactions, to any other Person. (d) This Section 10.02 shall not apply to (i) a merger of the Borrower with an Affiliate organized under the laws of any state of the United States solely for the purpose of reincorporating the Borrower in another jurisdiction or forming a direct holding company of the Borrower; provided that the Borrower shall promptly provide notice of such merger; (ii) any security interests granted to sale, transfer, assignment, conveyance, lease or other disposition of assets between or among the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]; (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventory, (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a including any sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02transfer, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be mergedassignment, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Personconveyance, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness lease or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty disposition from a Subsidiary Guarantor or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect Subsidiary Guarantor to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such a Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to Guarantor) including by way of merger or consolidation and (iii) any transaction that constitutes all or a portion of the extent required byTransactions. (e) Upon any consolidation or merger, or any sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole in a transaction that is subject to, and that complies with the provisions of, Sections 10.02(a) through and including 10.02(d), the successor corporation formed by such consolidation or into or with which the Borrower is merged or to which such sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition is made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between shall succeed to, and be substituted for (so that from and after the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders date of such Subsidiary set forth inconsolidation, the joint venture agreementmerger, operating agreementsale, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” lease, conveyance or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise)disposition, and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect Agreement and the other Credit Documents referring to the “Borrower” shall refer instead to the successor corporation and not to the Borrower), and may exercise every right and power of the Borrower under this Agreement and the other Credit Documents with the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as the Borrower herein; provided, however, that the predecessor Borrower shall not be relieved from its payment obligations hereunder except in the case of a sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear all of the Liens created by the Security DocumentsBorrower’s assets in a transaction that is subject to, and that complies with the Administrative Agent provisions of, Section 10.02(a) through and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoingincluding 10.02(d).

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Samples: Credit Agreement (PPL Energy Supply LLC), Credit Agreement (Talen Energy Holdings, Inc.)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any saleSale-leaseback transactions of any PersonLeaseback Transaction, except that: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assetsassets (including Equity Interests), so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,00030,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities securities, notes, other obligations or assets received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, (C) consideration consisting of Indebtedness of the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary that is not Subordinated Indebtedness received from such transferee, (D) accounts receivable of a business retained by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, following the sale of such business; provided that such accounts receivable (1) are not past due more than 90 days and (C2) do not have a payment date greater than 120 days from the date of the invoices creating such accounts receivable and (E) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A1) $25,000,000 150,000,000 and (B2) 2.02.5% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration Consideration) (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (iv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party Subsidiary Guarantor (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign other Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (yvi), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain not be impaired in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent any material respect as in effect immediately prior to a result of such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]; (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventoryinventory in the ordinary course of business, (B) goods held for sale in the ordinary course of business and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business25,000,000; (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (wx) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (xy) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of the greater of (A) $7,500,000, 50,000,000 and (yB) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 300.75% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisitiontime of disposition thereof), and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions (a) involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received and fair market value (as determined by the Lead Borrower Borrower) or (b) with respect to any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all other Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as not described in subclause (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(dxii)(a), having an aggregate fair market value not in excess of $25,000,000; (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents (or other assets that were Cash Equivalents when the relevant Investment was made) to make payments that are not otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07prohibited by this Agreement; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, ; provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary in joint ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth inbetween, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiarybinding arrangements; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders (or such other percentage of the Lenders as may be required by Section 10.02) waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereofGuarantor), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, to take any actions deemed appropriate by them in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Term Loan Credit Agreement (Vertiv Holdings Co), Term Loan Credit Agreement (Vertiv Holdings Co)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower Borrowers will not, and will not permit any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any saleSale-leaseback transactions of any PersonLeaseback Transaction, except that: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assetsassets (including Equity Interests), so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or (including Equity Interests Interests) having a fair market value of more than the greater of $10,000,0008,000,000 and 1.00% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the time of such sale), at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Lead Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities securities, notes, other obligations or assets received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, (C) consideration consisting of Indebtedness of Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary that is not Subordinated Indebtedness received from such transferee, (D) accounts receivable of a business retained by Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, following the sale of such business; provided that such accounts receivable (1) are not past due more than 90 days and (C2) do not have a payment date greater than 120 days from the date of the invoices creating such accounts receivable and (E) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 36,000,000 and (B) 2.04.50% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration Consideration) (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (iv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead a Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead a Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead a Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party Subsidiary Guarantor (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead a Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead a Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign other Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead a Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead a Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (yvi), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain not be impaired in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent any material respect as in effect immediately prior to a result of such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]any disposition of (i) Securitization Assets arising in connection with a Qualified Securitization Transaction or (ii) the Receivables Assets arising in connection with a Receivables Facility, in each case, permitted by Section 10.04(xxiv); (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventoryinventory in the ordinary course of business, (B) goods held for sale in the ordinary course of business and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than the greater of $10,000,000 in 8,000,000 and 1.00% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the ordinary course time of businesssuch sale or lease, as applicable); (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn worn-out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (wx) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (xy) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of the greater of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 3016,000,000 and 2.00% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the aggregate consideration paid for time of such Permitted Acquisitionsale or other disposition), and (z) such assets are sold, transferred sold or otherwise disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions (a) involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash and fair market value (as determined by Lead Borrower) or (b) with respect to any other Sale-Leaseback Transactions not described in subclause (xii)(a), having an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the aggregate fair market value not in excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any greater of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any $8,000,000 and 1.00% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the time of such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Transaction); (xiii) Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after may consummate the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]Transactions; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may permit to lapse or abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services AgreementsSwap Contracts; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents (or other assets that were Cash Equivalents when the relevant Investment was made) to make payments that are not otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07prohibited by this Agreement; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, ; provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05.; (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary in joint ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth inbetween, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiarybinding arrangements; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders (or such other percentage of the Lenders as may be required by Section 10.02) waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead a Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereofGuarantor), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate by them in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Revolving Credit Agreement (Interior Logic Group Holdings, LLC)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Holdings and the Borrower will not, and Holdings will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Guarantor to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs affairs, or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease sell or otherwise dispose of all or any part substantially all of its property or assets, assets or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any PersonCollateral or agree to do any of the foregoing at any future time, except thatthat the following shall be permitted: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 Subsidiary of Holdings (other than the Borrower) may be structured merged or consolidated with or into, or be liquidated into, the Borrower (so long as a merger, consolidation the Borrower is the surviving corporation) or amalgamation; any Guarantor (so long as such Guarantor is the surviving corporation) and (ii) all or any part of the Lead Borrower business, properties and assets of Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than the Borrower) may sell assetsbe conveyed, so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable leased, sold or transferred to the Lead Borrower or any Guarantor or any Subsidiary of the Borrower or any Guarantors, provided that if any Collateral is transferred pursuant to this Section 7.02(a), Holdings, Parent and/or the Borrower shall provide the Administrative Agent with ten Business Days' notice prior to such transfer, and the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, owning the Collateral after such transfer shall take all action reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time respect of the closing continued priority and perfection of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 and (B) 2.0% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d)Collateral; (iiib) each of Holdings may liquidate or dissolve or consolidate or merge into another entity, provided (i) Holdings is the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) successor or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (iv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, survivor in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person respect of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (y), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto Holdings will be in full compliance with the terms of this Agreement and (IIii) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors Standard & Poor's shall have affirmed in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any writing that such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent will not impair Holdings' implied senior debt rating as such debt rating is in effect immediately prior to the announcement or consummation of such liquidation, dissolution, consolidation or merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (viic) [reserved]; (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make other sales or leases dispositions of (A) inventory, (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided that (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer sale or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may shall be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost fair market value thereof (as determined by the Board of such property; provided that any Directors of the Borrower in the case of sales in excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any $20,000,000) and for proceeds consisting solely of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use not less than 100% cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxiy) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of no such sale or disposition are promptly applied to shall constitute the purchase price sale or disposition of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions all or contributions substantially all of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted the combined assets of Holdings and its Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth in, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property taken as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02whole; and (xxvid) other sales or dispositions permitted by Section 10.03of assets in each case to the extent the Required Banks have consented in writing thereto and subject to such conditions as may be set forth in such consent. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold or otherwise disposed of (to any Person other than Holdings and its Subsidiaries) as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof)7.02, such Collateral shall be sold or otherwise disposed of free and clear of the Liens created by the Security DocumentsAgreement, and the Administrative Agent and Agent, the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, to take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Credit Agreement (R&b Falcon Corp)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower Parent will not, and nor will not it permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up: (a) Dissolve, liquidate or dissolve wind up its affairs or their affairs, except (i) in connection with a disposition of assets permitted by the terms of subsection (c) below or (ii) the liquidation or dissolution of a Subsidiary if the Parent determines in good faith that such liquidation or dissolution is in the best interests of the Parent and its Subsidiaries and is not materially disadvantageous to the Lenders; (b) enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any Person, except that: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assets, so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes that, so long as no Default has occurred and is continuing or would be directly or indirectly caused as a result thereof, (i) the Parent or the Borrower may merge or consolidate with any of this clause (y)the Borrower, the following shall be deemed to be cash: Parent or its Subsidiaries, as applicable, provided that the Borrower or the Parent is the surviving entity, (Aii) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in Subsidiary of the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary Parent (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the ObligationsBorrower) that are assumed by the transferee may merge or consolidate with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted other Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash Parent, provided that if either Subsidiary is a Guarantor the surviving entity shall be or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, become a Guarantor and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 and (B) 2.0% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (iv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Parent (other than the Borrower) may be mergedmerge or consolidate with another Person, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person aggregate book value of the assets of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is merging Subsidiary does not constitute a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws substantial part of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (y), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation)Parent’s property; (viic) [reserved]; (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventorysell, (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market valuelease, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell transfer or otherwise dispose of its property to the extent such would constitute a substantial part of the Parent’s Property (including without limitation pursuant to any sale and leaseback transaction) other than (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus the sale or worn out property, in each case, lease of inventory in the ordinary course of business and for fair consideration, (ii) property the sale or disposition of machinery and equipment no longer used or useful in the conduct of such Person’s business, (iii) the business sale of accounts in connection with a Permitted Receivables Financing, and (iv) the sale, lease, transfer or other disposition to one or more of the Lead Borrower and Parent or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;subsidiaries; or (xd) each unless such action is approved by the board of the Lead Borrower directors or other applicable governing body of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as no Default has occurred and is continuing or would be directly or indirectly caused as a result thereof, (wi) purchase or otherwise acquire any Equity Interests of any Person in excess of 10% of the Equity Interests of such Person, (ii) purchase or otherwise acquire any assets are not used of any Person in excess of 10% of the value of the assets of such Person, and (iii), except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) above, merge or useful consolidate with such Person. For purposes of this Section 6.04 only, a sale, transfer, conveyance, lease or other disposition of assets shall be deemed to be a “substantial part” of the Parent’s Property only if the value of such assets, when added to the core value of all other assets sold, transferred, conveyed, leased or principal business otherwise disposed of by the Parent or any Subsidiary (other than in the normal course of business) during the same fiscal year, exceeds 15% of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted SubsidiariesParent’s Consolidated Total Assets determined as of the end of the immediately preceding fiscal year. As used in the preceding sentence, (x) the term “value” shall mean, with respect to any asset disposed of, the greater of such assets have a asset’s book or fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% as of the aggregate consideration paid for date of disposition, with “book value” being the value of such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or asset as would appear immediately prior to the first anniversary such disposition on a consolidated balance sheet of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) Parent prepared in order to effect accordance with GAAP. Upon the sale of assets or the sale of Equity Interests of a sale, transfer or disposition Guarantor as otherwise permitted by this Section 10.026.04, a Restricted Subsidiary so long as no Event of Default shall occur or be continuing, the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of propertyLenders, shall in each case constitute an Investment in release such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05Guarantor from its obligations under the Loan Documents. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth in, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Credit Agreement (Schneider National, Inc.)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower will not, Each of the Credit Parties and any Restricted Subsidiary will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger merger, amalgamation or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any Person, except that: (i) the Credit Parties and their Restricted Subsidiaries may dispose of cash and Cash Equivalents in the ordinary course of business; (ii) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamationamalgamation and the Credit Parties and their Restricted Subsidiaries may make Investments permitted by Section 10.05 and grant Permitted Liens; (iiiii) the Lead Borrower Holdings and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell assets, assets so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower Holdings or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may beBorrower), (y) in the case of any single transaction or series of related transactions that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may beBorrower, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s Holdings most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Borrower Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding), not to exceed the greater of (A1) $25,000,000 30,000,000 and (B2) 2.030% of Consolidated Total Assets EBITDA at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (no Event of Default under Sections 11.01(a) or 11.01(e) shall have occurred and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d)be continuing or would result therefrom; (iiiiv) each of the Lead Borrower Holdings and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (ivv) each of the Lead Borrower Holdings and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell sell, discount or discountforgive, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (vvi) each of the Lead Borrower Holdings and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower Holdings or any of its Restricted SubsidiariesSubsidiary, including of Intellectual Property; (vivii) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory each case upon prompt prior written notice to the Administrative AgentAgent (a) any Restricted Subsidiary may merge, amalgamate or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently consolidate with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary the Borrower, provided that the Borrower shall be the continuing or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be mergedsurviving Person, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated one or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (y), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]; (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventory, (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than the Borrower); provided that when any Subsidiary Credit Parties)Party is merging, (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) amalgamating or (D) by Credit Parties to any consolidating with another Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition continuing or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and surviving Person shall be a Subsidiary Credit Party or (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition if the continuing or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that surviving Person is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to Credit Party, the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders acquisition of such Subsidiary set forth in, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing Credit Party by such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the surviving Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition Subsidiary is otherwise permitted pursuant to this under Section 10.0210.05; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereofb), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Credit Agreement (ONESPAWORLD HOLDINGS LTD)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower will not, and will not permit any Whether in one transaction or a series of its Restricted Subsidiaries totransactions, wind up, divide, liquidate or dissolve its affairs affairs, or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease sell or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any PersonCollateral, except that: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 a Borrower may be structured as a mergermerge with and into, consolidation or amalgamationtransfer assets to, or divide into, another Borrower; (ii) the Lead a Borrower and may wind up, liquidate, divide or dissolve its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assets, affairs so long as (x) each prior thereto such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in makes a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiarydisposition of all of its property, as the case may be)stock, (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary assets (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent assets of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 and (B) 2.0% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in de minimis value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d)another Borrower; (iii) each a Borrower may agree to the removal by a Receivables Sub or a Borrower of any Library Title from the Collateral provided that: (a) LGE purchases (or causes a Subsidiary of LGE to purchase) the rights to the Library Title from such Borrower or Receivables Sub at a fair market value in an amount equal to the higher of (A) (I) the most recent Valuation Amount for such Library Title or (II) if the most recent Valuation Amount does not include a specific value for such Library Title, the value determined by the Master Servicer in good faith based upon the methodology used in the most recent Valuation Report and (B) the sale price of such Library Title to a third party by LGE (or such Subsidiary of LGE); (b) 100% of the Lead Borrower net proceeds from such sale are applied to prepay the Loans; and (c) such sales of any Library Titles in the aggregate are limited to a maximum of 5% of the most recent Valuation Amount (or such higher percentage up to 20% of the Valuation Amount approved by the Administrative Agent in its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) sole discretion or license (as licensee) real with respect to any sale in the aggregate of 20% or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to more of the extent permitted Valuation Amount, approved by Section 10.04(iii)the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders); (iv) each a Borrower may agree to the removal by a Receivables Sub or a Borrower of any Library Title from the Collateral provided that (a) LGE replaces (or causes a Subsidiary of LGE to replace) the rights to such Library Title with any other Library Title(s) that has/have a fair market value in an amount greater than or equal to the most recent Valuation Amount for such Library Title and (b) such replacement of any Library Titles in the aggregate are limited to a maximum of 5% of the Lead Borrower most recent Valuation Amount (or (x) such higher percentage up to 20% of the Valuation Amount approved by the Administrative Agent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell the Required Lenders or discount, in each case (y) with respect to any sale in the ordinary course aggregate of business20% or more of the Valuation Amount, accounts receivable arising in approved by the ordinary course Administrative Agent and Lenders holding 66 2/3% of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part aggregate principal amount of any financing transactionthe outstanding Loans); (v) each a Borrower may dispose of cash and Cash Equivalents not in violation of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct terms of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Propertythis Credit Agreement; (vi) a Borrower may transfer certain licensing and distribution rights in the Library Titles to the applicable Receivables Sub in accordance with the Receivables Sub Transaction Documents (w) any Domestic Subsidiary as in effect on the Closing Date or as modified after the Closing Date with the written consent of the Lead Borrower may be mergedRequired Lenders); and (vii) pursuant to Liens permitted by Section 6.2 provided, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws that immediately prior to and immediately after giving effect to any of the United States of Americatransactions contemplated in this Section 6.6, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (y), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]; (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventory, (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall occurred and be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05continuing. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth in, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Credit, Security and Pledge Agreement (Lions Gate Entertainment Corp /Cn/)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger merger, amalgamation or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any saleSale-leaseback transactions of any PersonLeaseback Transaction, except that: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assets, assets (including Equity Interests) so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than the greater of $10,000,00030,000,000 and 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA (measured at the time of such sale), at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such the Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities securities, notes, other obligations or assets received by such the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted convertible by such the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, (C) consideration consisting of Indebtedness of the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary that is not Subordinated Indebtedness received from such transferee, (D) accounts receivable of a business retained by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, following the sale of such business; provided that such accounts receivable (1) are not past due more than 90 days and (C2) do not have a payment date greater than 120 days from the date of the invoices creating such accounts receivable and (E) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 120,000,000 and (B) 2.035.0% of Consolidated Total Assets EBITDA (measured at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration Consideration) (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (iv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (wA) any Domestic U.S. Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party Subsidiary Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation), (xB) any Foreign Restricted Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is not a Credit Party may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign other Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and not a Credit Party (yC) any Foreign Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation or continuing Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (yvi), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain not be impaired in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent any material respect as in effect immediately prior to a result of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]any disposition of (i) Securitization Assets arising in connection with a Qualified Securitization Transaction or (ii) the Receivables Assets arising in connection with a Receivables Facility, in each case, permitted by Section 10.01(xxxix) and which Securitization Assets or Receivables Assets, as applicable, consist solely of assets originated by one or more Foreign Subsidiaries (other than a Foreign Subsidiary organized in the jurisdiction of a Credit Party); (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventoryinventory and equipment in the ordinary course of business, (B) goods held for sale in the ordinary course of business and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than the greater of $10,000,000 in 30,000,000 and 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA (measured at the ordinary course time of businesssuch sale or lease, as applicable); (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (wx) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (xy) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of the greater of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 3040,000,000 and 12.0% of Consolidated EBITDA (measured at the aggregate consideration paid for time of such Permitted Acquisitionsale or other disposition), and (z) such assets are sold, transferred sold or otherwise disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions (a) involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash and fair market value (as determined by the Borrower) or (b) with respect to any other Sale-Leaseback Transactions not described in subclause (xii)(a), having an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the aggregate fair market value not in excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any greater of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any $20,000,000 and 6.0% of Consolidated EBITDA (measured at the time of such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(dTransaction); (xiii) [reserved]any transfer of title or other disposition of assets subject or pursuant to any Floor Plan Financing (or, for the avoidance of doubt, any documents governing Floor Plan Financing); (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty casualty, condemnation or condemnation expropriation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon abandon, allow to lapse or expire or otherwise become invalid Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services AgreementsSwap Contracts; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents (or other assets that were Cash Equivalents when the relevant Investment was made) to make payments that are not otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07prohibited by this Agreement; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, ; provided with respect to clause (D) that (x) (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05.10.05 and (y) a new Borrowing Base Certificate shall be delivered if assets comprising more than 10% of the Borrowing Base are transferred in a single transaction or series of related transactions to non-Credit Parties; (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary in joint ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth inbetween, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiarybinding arrangements; (xxiv) transfers of condemned or expropriated property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned or expropriated the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and; (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03; and (xxvii) dispositions or other transactions undertaken in good faith for Tax planning purposes, so long as after giving effect to such dispositions or other transactions, the security interest of the Collateral Agent in the Collateral for the benefit of the Secured Creditors is not materially impaired. To the extent the Required Lenders (or such other percentage of the Lenders as may be required by Section 10.02) waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereofGuarantor), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, to take any actions deemed appropriate by them in order to effect the foregoing. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 10.02, the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall not, directly or indirectly, sell or otherwise transfer any material Intellectual Property that is material to the operations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole to any Unrestricted Subsidiary.

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Samples: Revolving Credit Agreement (Custom Truck One Source, Inc.)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assetsassets (including, in each case, pursuant to a Delaware LLC Division), or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any Person, except that: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assets, so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 50,000,000 and (B) 2.03.0% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (iv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (y), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]each Credit Party may convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets to another Credit Party; (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventory, (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,00010,000,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdingsthe Lead Borrower), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdingsthe Lead Borrower) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth in, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: First Lien Term Loan Credit Agreement (PAE Inc)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower Parent will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, to (x) wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnershipaffairs, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or (y) convey, sell, lease lease, charter or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property the Collateral or assets(z) convey, sell, lease, charter or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions substantial part of, the assets (i.e. taken as a whole) of any Personthe Parent and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, except that: (i) any Investment Investments by the Parent and its Subsidiaries shall be permitted by in accordance with Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation10.05; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assets, so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted any Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 and (B) 2.0% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries Parent may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii10.04(vii)); (iviii) each any Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries Parent may sell or discount, in each case without recourse and in the ordinary course of business, overdue accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof consistent with customary industry practice (and not as part of any bulk sale or financing transaction); (iv) any Credit Party may sell or otherwise transfer all or any part of the Collateral to any other Credit Party, in each case so long as the Collateral and Guaranty Requirements shall be fully satisfied after giving effect thereto; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Parent (other than the Borrower) may merge with and into, or be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated dissolved or liquidated with or into into, the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of AmericaBorrower, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) Subsidiary Guarantor or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded SubsidiaryParent, so long as (w) in the case of any such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary merger, dissolution or such Excluded Subsidiaryliquidation involving the Borrower, as applicable, the Borrower is the surviving corporation of any such merger, consolidationdissolution or liquidation, dissolution(x) except as provided in preceding clause (w), amalgamation in the cases of any such merger, dissolution or liquidation and (y) any Foreign involving a Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be mergedGuarantor, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party a Subsidiary Guarantor is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidationdissolution or liquidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause and (y)) in all cases, so long as (I) no Default the Collateral and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately Guaranty Requirements shall be fully satisfied after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation dissolution or liquidation); (viivi) [reserved]the Parent may (x) merge or consolidate with any other Person so long as the Parent is the surviving entity, no Default or Event of Default then exists or is continuing at such time, the Parent shall continue to be organized in the United States or another jurisdiction acceptable to the Administrative Agent, there is no Change of Control and the Collateral and Guaranty Requirements shall be satisfied after giving effect thereto and (y) merge or consolidate with a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Parent so long as there is no Change of Control; (viiivii) each any Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Parent may enter into demise, bareboat, time, voyage and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales other charter or lease arrangements pursuant to which any such Subsidiary charters or leases of (A) inventory, (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with out a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ix) each Rig to another Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell Parent or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out propertyto a third Person, in each case, case so long as (x) such arrangements are entered into in the ordinary course of business and consistent with past practices, (iiy) property no longer used or useful in such arrangements do not materially impair the conduct value of the business Rig or Rigs subject to such arrangements and (z) such arrangements involving any Collateral Rigs do not impair the security interest of the Lead Borrower Collateral Agent in such Collateral Rigs (or the ability of the Collateral Agent to foreclose on each Collateral Rig or exercise its remedies in respect thereof, in each case free of such arrangements) and such arrangements are subject in all respects to the Collateral Agent’s Lien on such Collateral Rigs; (viii) any Subsidiary of the Parent that is not a Credit Party may sell or otherwise transfer all or any part of its Restricted Subsidiariesbusiness, properties or assets (other than a Rig) to any Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Parent; (ix) so long as no Default or Event of Default then exists or would result therefrom, Inactive Subsidiaries of the Parent may be liquidated or dissolved from time to time, so long as (x) the Parent determines that such liquidation is not adverse to the interests of the Lenders and (y) the security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors pursuant to the Security Documents shall remain in full force and effect (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such dissolution or liquidation); (x) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to transfer any Rig from the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower Parent or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and Subsidiaries, to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue Parent or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to of the extent required byParent, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between provided that in the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders case of such Subsidiary set forth inCollateral Rigs, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), Collateral and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02Guaranty Requirements shall be fully satisfied after giving effect thereto; and (xxvixi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03the Reorganization shall be permitted. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof)10.02, such Collateral (unless sold to the Parent or a Subsidiary of the Parent) shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, to take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Credit Agreement (Atwood Oceanics Inc)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Company to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sellsell (including pursuant to any sale-leaseback transaction), lease or otherwise dispose of (or agree to do any of the foregoing at any future time unless either permitted hereunder or subject to receiving consents hereunder) all or any part of its property Property (or assets, agree to do any of the foregoing at any future time unless either permitted hereunder or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any Personsubject to receiving consents hereunder), except that: (i) the Borrower and the Subsidiaries may in the ordinary course of business, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a mergerProperty which, consolidation in the reasonable judgment of such Person, is obsolete, worn out or amalgamationotherwise no longer economic or useful in the conduct of such Person's business; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries Investments may sell assets, so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 and (B) 2.0% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except made to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii))8.05 and Cash Equivalents may be disposed of or liquidated in the ordinary course of business; (iii) the Borrower and the Subsidiaries may make sales or transfers of inventory in the ordinary course of business; (iv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted the Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case without recourse and in the ordinary course of business, overdue accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof consistent with customary industry practice (and not as part of any financing transactionbulk sale); (v) each the Borrower and the Subsidiaries may license or sublicense software, trademarks and other intellectual Property in the ordinary course of business which do not materially interfere with the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted the Subsidiaries taken as a whole; (A) the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor may transfer Property (including Capital Stock) or lease to or acquire or lease Property from the Borrower or any other Subsidiary Guarantor, (B) any Excluded Subsidiary may transfer Property 108 (including Capital Stock) to or lease to or acquire or lease Property from another Excluded Subsidiary, and (C) any Subsidiary may merge with the Borrower or any other Subsidiary (so long as, in the case of any merger involving the Borrower, the Borrower is the surviving corporation thereof and so long as, in the case of any merger involving a Subsidiary Guarantor (other than a merger involving the Borrower), a Subsidiary Guarantor is the surviving corporation thereof); (vii) the Borrower and the Subsidiaries may grant sell or otherwise dispose of additional Property in transactions constituting Asset Sales (including Asset Sales constituting Permitted Exchanges, but excluding Asset Sales constituting Sale-Leaseback Transactions or Hospital Swaps), provided that (a) each such sale or disposition shall be for an amount at least equal to the Fair Market Value thereof, (b) except in the case of a Permitted Exchange, each such sale results in consideration at least 75% of which shall be in the form of cash (for such purpose, taking into account the amount of cash, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the Fair Market Value of any other consideration), (c) the Net Asset Sale Proceeds therefrom are either applied to repay Loans as provided in Section 2.05(b)(iii) or reinvested in Eligible Assets to the extent permitted by Section 2.05(b)(iii), and (d) the aggregate Net Asset Sale Proceeds of all Property (excluding the Property described on Schedule 8.02) subject to sale or other disposition pursuant to this clause (vii) shall not exceed the sum of (A) $100,000,000 plus (B) the Permitted Expenditure Amount, in the aggregate for all such transactions occurring on or after the Closing Date; (viii) the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions (any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction being herein referred to as a "Permitted Sale-Leaseback Transaction"), provided that (a) the proceeds of the respective sale shall be entirely cash and in an amount at least equal to the Fair Market Value of such Property, (b) the Net Asset Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied to repay the Loans (and to Cash Collateralize L/C Obligations) as provided in Section 2.05(b)(iii) or reinvested in Eligible Assets to the extent permitted by Section 2.05(b)(iii) and (c) the Borrower establishes compliance with Sections 8.08 and 8.09 after giving effect, on a Pro Forma Basis, to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction; (ix) any Subsidiary may (a) liquidate or dissolve voluntarily into the Borrower or any other Subsidiary (so long as, in the case of any liquidation or dissolution involving a Subsidiary Guarantor, such Subsidiary Guarantor is liquidated or dissolved into the Borrower or another Subsidiary Guarantor), (b) wind up its affairs so long as, immediately prior thereto, it shall have transferred to the Borrower or any Subsidiary that proportion of its Property corresponding to the portion of its Capital Stock owned directly or indirectly by the Borrower or such Subsidiary (so long as, in the case of any winding up involving a Subsidiary Guarantor, such Subsidiary Guarantor's Property is transferred to the Borrower or another Subsidiary Guarantor), and (c) be converted into, or reorganized or reconstituted as, a limited partnership or limited liability company, provided that at the time of such conversion, reorganization or reconstitution, (A) all actions required to maintain the perfection and priority of the Liens of the Security Documents shall have been taken to the reasonable satisfaction of the Xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 000 Xxxxx, (X) if the entity being converted, reorganized or reconstituted, as applicable, is a Subsidiary Guarantor, the entity formed and/or surviving as a result of any such conversion shall be a Subsidiary Guarantor, and (C) the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent all other such documents, instruments and certificates as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request so as to cause the Loan Parties to be in compliance with the terms of Section 7.11 after giving effect to such conversion, reorganization or reconstitution. (x) the Borrower and the Subsidiaries may sell (including by the issuance of Capital Stock by the affected Subsidiary) equity interests in any of the Subsidiaries of the Borrower to Hospital Investment Program Participants in connection with the Hospital Investment Program so long as such sale or issuance is effected in accordance with the definition of Hospital Investment Program; (xi) the Borrower and the Subsidiaries may effect the transactions described in clauses (x)(1) through (x)(6) of the proviso to the definition of Asset Sale, and transactions that do not meet the dollar threshold set forth in the definition of Asset Sale and therefore do not constitute Asset Sales for the purposes thereof; (xii) the Borrower and the Subsidiaries may (A) effect Permitted Hospital Swaps and (B) make Permitted Acquisitions; (xiii) the Borrower and the Subsidiaries may enter into licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases granted to other Persons in the ordinary course of business not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiariesand the Subsidiaries taken as a whole, including leases of Intellectual Property;unimproved Real Property encumbered by a mortgage, on which Real Property the lessee may make improvements; and (vixiv) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be mergedmerge with and into Holdings, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as Holdings being the surviving Person of corporation (such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes"Holdings Merger"), in writing, all the obligations connection with an initial public offering of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person Capital Stock of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), Holdings; provided that (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary the consummation of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary Holdings Merger shall not result in a material and adverse impact to the interests of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of Administrative Agent and/or the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded SubsidiaryLenders under the Loan Documents, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Subsidiary prior to or at the time of the Lead Holdings Merger, (A) all actions required to maintain the perfection and priority of the Liens of the Security Documents shall have been taken to the reasonable satisfaction of the Administrative Agent, and (B) the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent all other such documents, instruments and certificates as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request so as to cause the Loan Parties to be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated in compliance with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation terms of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (y), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately Section 7.11 after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]; (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventory, (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth in, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03Holdings Merger. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 8.02 with respect to the sale sale, lease or other disposition of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold sold, leased or otherwise disposed of as permitted by this Section 10.02 8.02, such Collateral (other than unless sold to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral Guarantor) shall be sold sold, leased or otherwise disposed of free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, to take any 110 actions reasonably requested by the Borrower and deemed appropriate by the Administrative Agent in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Credit Agreement (Biltmore Surgery Center Holdings Inc)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any Person, except that: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assets, so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-arm’s- length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,0005,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 and (B) 2.02.5% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-Non- cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii10.04(ii)); (iv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party Subsidiary Guarantor (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (yvii), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]; (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventory, (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 5,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Sale- Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted in Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary Ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth inbetween, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiarybinding arrangements; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Term Loan Credit Agreement

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Each of the Lead Borrower will not, and any Restricted Subsidiary will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger merger, amalgamation or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose (including, in each case, pursuant to a Division) of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any Person, except that: (i) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may consummate the transactions contemplated under the Restructuring Memo; (ii) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (iiiii) the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell assetsassets (and, so long as a new Borrowing Base Certificate is delivered in connection with such sale, assets of a type that would otherwise be included in the Borrowing Base), so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A1) $25,000,000 20,000,000 and (B2) 2.01.00% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iiiiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property property, excluding Intellectual Property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (ivv) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable Ineligible Accounts arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (vvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted SubsidiariesSubsidiary, including of Intellectual Property; (vivii) (wx) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state State thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, (A) the Lead Borrower shall have notified the Lenders in writing of the identity of the surviving Person and (B) the Person surviving such Person transaction shall have (I) expressly assumes, in writing, assumed all of the rights and obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant in a manner reasonably satisfactory to an assumption agreement Administrative Agent and (II) made representations and delivered opinions of counsel (unless Administrative Agent shall have indicated that no such opinion of counsel is required), in each case, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, as to the valid existence of such Person, as to the power and authorization of such Person to assume such rights and obligations and as to the validity and binding nature of the Credit Documents on such Person) or any other Credit Party (Domestic Subsidiary so long as the surviving or continuing Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company company, unlimited liability company, or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, amalgamation, consolidation or liquidation if one of the applicable Domestic Subsidiaries was a Subsidiary Guarantor prior to such merger, amalgamation, consolidation or liquidation), (xy) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower (other than a Canadian Credit Party) may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving or continuing corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (yz) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving or continuing corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidationliquidation or, as applicable, the Person surviving or continuing following such merger, consolidation or amalgamation is the successor in rights and obligations of such Credit Party); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (yvii), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests and Liens granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in and on the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (viiviii) [reservedReserved]; (viiiix) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may make sales or leases of (A) of inventory, (B) of goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 20,000,000 in each fiscal year, in each case in the ordinary course of business; (ixx) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell or otherwise dispose of (ix) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (iiy) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted SubsidiariesSubsidiary; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as which assets (wx) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000Subsidiary, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 3020% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xixii) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a any Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xiixiii) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) a transfer or deposition of Receivables Transaction Assets in connection with a Permitted Receivables Transaction; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xvxvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may make transfers of property subject to casualty casualty, expropriation or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvixvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, which in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each determination of the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary are not material to the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services AgreementsSubsidiary taken as a whole; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Swap Contracts; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may use cash terminate leases and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07subleases; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may use cash and Cash Equivalents for any purpose not otherwise prohibited; (xxii) each of the Lead Borrower or its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxiixxiii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, ; provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05.Subsidiary; (xxiiixxiv) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted in Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary Ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth inbetween, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiarybinding arrangements; (xxivxxv) transfers of condemned or expropriated property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned or expropriated the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation condemnation, expropriation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property Real Property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxvxxvi) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvixxvii) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03; (xxviii) sales or other dispositions of Real Property of the Credit Parties so long as no Event of Default exists or would result therefrom; (xxix) the sale of any property covered by a Capitalized Lease Obligation in connection with the termination of such Capitalized Lease Obligations; and (xxx) other dispositions so long as the Payment Conditions are met. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a any Restricted Subsidiary thereofSubsidiary), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Credit Agreement (Ryerson Holding Corp)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower Parent will not, and will not permit any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any saleSale-leaseback transactions of any PersonLeaseback Transaction, except that: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assetsassets (including Collateral and Equity Interests), so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower Parent or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,0005,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrowerthe Parent’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower the Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower Parent and the its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities securities, notes, other obligations or assets received by such Borrower the Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower the Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, (C) consideration consisting of Indebtedness of Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary that is not Subordinated Indebtedness received from such transferee, (D) accounts receivable of a business retained by Parent or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, following the sale of such business; provided that such accounts receivable (1) are not past due more than 90 days and (C2) do not have a payment date greater than 120 days from the date of the invoices creating such accounts receivable and (E) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower Parent or any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A1) $25,000,000 50,000,000 and (B2) 2.05.00% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration Consideration) (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (iv) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower Parent or any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Parent (other than KEC) may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower Borrowers (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead a Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead applicable Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party Subsidiary Guarantor (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead BorrowerParent, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower Parent may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign other Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation Parent and (y) any Foreign Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower Parent may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (yvi), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain not be impaired in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent any material respect as in effect immediately prior to a result of such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]Parent and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into transactions among the Parent and/or Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with reorganizations and related activities related to tax planning; provided that (1) such tax planning activities do not result in a material adverse tax consequence to the Lenders or (2) any entity that is reorganized pursuant to such tax planning activities is reorganized in the United States, the Republic of Singapore, Japan, Italy or Mexico; (viii) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventoryinventory in the ordinary course of business, (B) goods held for sale in the ordinary course of business and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business5,000,000; (ix) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and Parent or its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (wx) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries, and (xy) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of the greater of (A) $7,500,000, 40,000,000 and (yB) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 304.00% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisitiontime of disposition thereof), and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary within 18 months of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Parent may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions (a) involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal and fair market value (as determined by Parent) or (b) with respect to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all other Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as not described in subclause (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d)xii)(a),having an aggregate fair market value not in excess of $20,000,000; (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower Parent or any of its such Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower Parent or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents (or other assets that were Cash Equivalents when the relevant Investment was made) to make payments that are not otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07prohibited by this Agreement; (xxi) each of Parent or the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings)Parties, (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, ; provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of propertyproperty shall, shall in each case case, constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary in joint ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth inbetween, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiarybinding arrangements; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders (or such other percentage of the Lenders as may be required by Section 10.02) waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower a Parent or a Restricted Subsidiary thereofGuarantor), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, to take any actions deemed appropriate by them in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Term Loan Credit Agreement (Kemet Corp)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower will not, Each of the Company and any Restricted Subsidiary will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnershipmerge, joint venture, amalgamate or transaction of merger or consolidationconsolidate, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any Person, except that: (i) any member of the Combined Group may make any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation10.05; (ii) Subject to Section 2.09(b)(i), the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell assets, so long as (x) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, (y) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower Company or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower Company or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower Company or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (yz) in the case of any single transaction (other than an Asset Exchange) that involves (I) any of the Collateral (other than Collateral transferred in an Excluded Asset Disposition) or (II) assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,00025,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower Company or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, cash or Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)consideration) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (yz)(II), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower Company and the its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Non- Cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (yz)(II) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A1) $25,000,000 75,000,000 and (B2) 2.02.00% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may lease (as lessee) sell upon payment therefor in the ordinary course of business any accounts in connection with the financing program established by the account debtor in effect on the Closing Date or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii))substantially similar program entered into hereafter; (iv) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell assets pursuant to a Tax Incentive Transaction; (vi) each of the Company and any Restricted Subsidiary may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower Company or any of its Restricted SubsidiariesSubsidiary, including of Intellectual Property; (vivii) (wx) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Company may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, or amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower Company (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, consolidation or amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state State thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead BorrowerCompany, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower Company under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (xy) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded SubsidiaryCompany, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving or continuing corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (yz) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Company may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving or continuing corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (yvii), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto thereto, (II) if any such merger, consolidation or amalgamation is between a Credit Party and a Subsidiary not a Credit Party, then the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation or amalgamation must be a Credit Party; and (IIIII) any security interests and Liens granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in and on the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (viiviii) [reserved]any Subsidiary of the Company may be liquidated or dissolved so long as no Default or Event of Default exists or would result therefrom, and (a) if such Subsidiary is a Restricted Subsidiary, all of the assets of such entity are transferred to another Restricted Subsidiary and (b) if such Subsidiary is a Credit Party, (1) all of the assets of such Subsidiary are transferred to another Credit Party and (2) any security interests and Liens granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in and on the assets of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable; (viiiix) any transfer arising out of the granting or creation of any Permitted Lien; (x) sales, transfers or dispositions of Cash Equivalents in the ordinary course of business; (xi) sale of accounts pursuant to put options entered into in the ordinary course of business, not for speculative purposes but to complement trade insurance; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may make sales or leases of (A) inventory, inventory and (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market valuesale, in the each case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ixxiii) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell or otherwise dispose of (ix) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out tangible or real property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and or in connection with the sale or other disposition of manufacturing assets, (iiy) tangible or real property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted SubsidiariesSubsidiary or (z) leasehold improvements or leased assets in connection with the termination of the lease; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xixiv) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a any Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xiixv) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may effect affect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property and/or equipment acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xivxvi) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xvxvii) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvixviii) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may abandon or allow to lapse Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, which in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each business judgment of the Lead Borrower and its Company or a Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each Subsidiary are not material to the conduct of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties business of the Lead Borrower or Company and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third partiesSubsidiary taken as a whole; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Hedging Agreements; (xx) each of the Company and any Restricted Subsidiary may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower Company or its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings)members of the Combined Group, (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Partiesmembers of the Combined Group), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, member of the Combined Group; provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and value, (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject and (3) no Collateral may be sold, disposed of or contributed by a Credit Party to Section 10.05.a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party pursuant to this clause (xxii) other than pursuant to an Excluded Asset Disposition; (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted in Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary Ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth inbetween, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02binding arrangements; and (xxvixxiv) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Credit Agreement (Resolute Forest Products Inc.)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower will not, Each of the Company and any Restricted Subsidiary will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnershipmerge, joint venture, amalgamate or transaction of merger or consolidationconsolidate, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any Person, except that: (i) any member of the Combined Group may make any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation10.05; (ii) Subject to Section 2.09(b)(ii), the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell assets, so long as (x) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, (y) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower Company or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower Company or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower Company or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (yz) in the case of any single transaction (other than an Asset Exchange) that involves (I) any of the Collateral (other than Collateral transferred in an Excluded Asset Disposition) or (II) assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,00025,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower Company or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, cash or Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)consideration) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (yz)(II), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writingdisposition, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (yz)(II) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A1) $25,000,000 75,000,000 and (B2) 2.02.00% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may lease sell upon payment therefor in the ordinary course of business any Accounts in connection with any reverse factoring program established by an Account Debtor (x) as lesseein effect on the Closing Date or (y) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except thereafter to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii))the Company in good faith believes that such program is in the beneficial interest of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, with respect to establishing or continuing its relationship with such Account Debtor; (iv) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell assets pursuant to a Tax Incentive Transaction; (vi) each of the Company and any Restricted Subsidiary may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower Company or any of its Restricted SubsidiariesSubsidiary, including of Intellectual Property; (vivii) (wx) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Company may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, or amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower Company (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, consolidation or amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state State thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead BorrowerCompany, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower Company under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (xy) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded SubsidiaryCompany, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving or continuing corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (yz) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Company may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving or continuing corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (yvii), so long as (I) no Default and no or Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto thereto, (II) if any such merger, consolidation or amalgamation is between a Credit Party and a Subsidiary not a Credit Party, then the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation or amalgamation must be a Credit Party; and (IIIII) any security interests and Liens granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in and on the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (viiviii) [reserved]any Subsidiary of the Company may be liquidated or dissolved so long as no Event of Default exists or would result therefrom, and (a) if such Subsidiary is a Restricted Subsidiary, all of the assets of such entity are transferred to another Restricted Subsidiary and (b) if such Subsidiary is a Credit Party, (1) all of the assets of such Subsidiary are transferred to another Credit Party and (2) any security interests and Liens granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in and on the assets of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable; (viiiix) any transfer arising out of the granting or creation of any Permitted Lien; (x) sales, transfers or dispositions of Cash Equivalents in the ordinary course of business; (xi) sale of accounts pursuant to put options entered into in the ordinary course of business, not for speculative purposes but to complement trade insurance; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may make sales or leases of (A) inventory, inventory and (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market valuesale, in the each case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ixxiii) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell or otherwise dispose of (ix) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out tangible or real property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and or in connection with the sale or other disposition of manufacturing assets, (iiy) tangible or real property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted SubsidiariesSubsidiary or (z) leasehold improvements or leased assets in connection with the termination of the lease; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xixiv) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a any Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xiixv) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may effect affect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property and/or equipment acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xivxvi) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xvxvii) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvixviii) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may abandon or allow to lapse Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, which in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each business judgment of the Lead Borrower and its Company or a Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each Subsidiary are not material to the conduct of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties business of the Lead Borrower or Company and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third partiesSubsidiary taken as a whole; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Hedging Agreements; (xx) each of the Company and any Restricted Subsidiary may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower Company or its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (ix) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (iiy) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings)members of the Combined Group, (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Partiesmembers of the Combined Group), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, member of the Combined Group; provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and value, (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject and (3) no Collateral may be sold, disposed of or contributed by a Credit Party to Section 10.05.a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party pursuant to this clause (xxii) other than pursuant to an Excluded Asset Disposition; (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted in Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary Ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth inbetween, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiarybinding arrangements; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers any transfer of property or assets that have been subject to is a casualty to the respective insurer surrender or waiver of such real property as part a contractual, regulatory, or legal right or a settlement, surrender, or release of an insurance settlementa contractual, regulatory, legal or tort claim; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); and (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Credit Agreement (Resolute Forest Products Inc.)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Each of the Lead Borrower will not, and any Restricted Subsidiary will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger merger, amalgamation or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose (including, in each case, pursuant to a Division) of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any Person, except that: (i) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may consummate the transactions contemplated under the Restructuring Memo; (ii) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (iiiii) the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell assets, so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,00025,000,000,32,500,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A1) $25,000,000 20,000,00040,000,000 and (B2) 2.01.002.00 % of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iiiiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property property, excluding Intellectual Property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Finance Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (ivv) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable Ineligible Accounts arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (vvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted SubsidiariesSubsidiary, including of Intellectual Property; (vivii) (wx) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of AmericaStates, any state State thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, (A) the Lead Borrower shall have notified the Lenders in writing of the identity of the surviving Person and (B) the Person surviving such Person transaction shall have (I) expressly assumes, in writing, assumed all of the rights and obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant in a manner reasonably satisfactory to an assumption agreement Administrative Agent and (II) made representations and delivered opinions of counsel (unless Administrative Agent shall have indicated that no such opinion of counsel is required), in each case, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, as to the valid existence of such Person, as to the power and authorization of such Person to assume such rights and obligations and as to the validity and binding nature of the Credit Documents on such Person) or any other Credit Party (Domestic Subsidiary so long as the surviving or continuing Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company company, unlimited liability company, or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, amalgamation, consolidation or liquidation if one of the applicable Domestic Subsidiaries was a Subsidiary Guarantor prior to such merger, amalgamation, consolidation or liquidation), (xy) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower (other than a Canadian Credit Party) may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving or continuing corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (yz) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving or continuing corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidationliquidation or, as applicable, the Person surviving or continuing following such merger, consolidation or amalgamation is the successor in rights and obligations of such Credit Party); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (yvii), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests and Liens granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in and on the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (viiviii) [reserved]the Lead Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may sell assets having a fair market value not to exceed $50,000,000 in the aggregate; (viiiix) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may make sales or leases of (A) of inventory, (B) of goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 20,000,000 in each fiscal year, in each case in the ordinary course of business; (ixx) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell or otherwise dispose of (ix) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (iiy) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted SubsidiariesSubsidiary; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as which assets (wx) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000Subsidiary, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 3020% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xixii) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a any Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xiixiii) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or any of its such Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time Subsidiary, as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]case may be, in good faith; (xiv) a transfer or disposition of Receivables Transaction Assets in connection with a Permitted Receivables Transaction; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xvxvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may make transfers of property subject to casualty casualty, expropriation or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvixvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, which in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each determination of the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary are not material to the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services AgreementsSubsidiary taken as a whole; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Swap Contracts; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may use cash terminate leases and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07subleases; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may use cash and Cash Equivalents for any purpose not otherwise prohibited; (xxii) each of the Lead Borrower or its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxiixxiii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, ; provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05.Subsidiary; (xxiiixxiv) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted in Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary Ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth inbetween, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiarybinding arrangements; (xxivxxv) transfers of condemned or expropriated property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned or expropriated the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation condemnation, expropriation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property Real Property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxvxxvi) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvixxvii) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03; (xxviii) sales or other dispositions of Real Property of the Credit Parties and their Restricted Subsidiaries so long as no Event of Default exists or would result therefrom; (xxix) the sale of any property covered by a Finance Lease Obligation in connection with the termination of such Finance Lease Obligations; and (xxx) other dispositions so long as the Payment Conditions are met. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead any Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereofGuarantor), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Credit Agreement (Ryerson Holding Corp)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any Person, except that: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assets, assets so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed ex- ceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 and (B) 2.0% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) ); provided that if any such disposition involves assets that accounted for more than 10% of the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and Borrowing Base at the time of such sale, the Borrowers shall deliver an updated Borrowing Base Certificate to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d)Administrative Agent recalculating the Borrowing Base after giving effect to such disposition in connection with such disposition; (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (iv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (y), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation), and any Guaranties shall continue in full force and effect; (vii) [reserved]; (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventory, (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth in, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Revolving Credit Agreement (PAE Inc)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower Borrowers will not, and will not permit any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any saleSale-leaseback transactions of any PersonLeaseback Transaction, except that: (i) : any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) the ; Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assetsassets (including Equity Interests), so long as as, (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than the greater of $10,000,00025,000,000 and 1.75% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the time of such sale), at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Lead Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities securities, notes, other obligations or assets received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, (C) consideration consisting of Indebtedness of Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary that is not Subordinated Indebtedness received from such transferee, (D) accounts receivable of a business retained by Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, following the sale of such business; provided that such accounts receivable (1) are not past due more than 90 days and (C2) do not have a payment date greater than 120 days from the date of the invoices creating such accounts receivable and (E) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 60,000,000 and (B) 2.04.50% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration Consideration) (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) ; each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (iv) ; each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) ; each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (y), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]; (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventory, (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth in, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: First Lien Term Loan Credit Agreement (VERRA MOBILITY Corp)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower will may not, and will directly or indirectly: (a) consolidate or merge with or into another Person (whether or not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate the Borrower is the surviving corporation) or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease assign, transfer, convey or otherwise dispose of all or any part substantially all of the properties or assets of the Borrower or its property Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole, in one or assetsmore related transactions, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any to another Person; in each case, except thatunless: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assets, so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be casheither: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s the Borrower is the surviving corporation; or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) the Person formed by or surviving any securities received by such Borrower consolidation or merger (if other than the Borrower) or to which such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower assignment, transfer, conveyance or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 and (B) 2.0% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (iv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation disposition has been made is a corporation, partnership or limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of AmericaStates, any state thereof of the United States or the District of Columbia andColumbia; (ii) the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than the Borrower) or the Person to which such sale, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrowerassignment, such Person expressly assumestransfer, in writing, conveyance or other disposition has been made assumes all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form joinder agreements or other documents and substance agreements reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent; (iii) or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of immediately after such mergertransaction, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (y), so long as (I) no Default and no or Event of Default then exists exists; and (A) the Borrower or would exist immediately the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than the Borrower), or to which such sale, assignment, transfer, conveyance or other disposition has been made will, on the date of such transaction after giving pro forma effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted related financing transactions as if the same had occurred at the beginning of the applicable four-quarter period, be permitted to incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness pursuant to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio test set forth in the assets (and Equity InterestsSection 10.04(a) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]; (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventory, (B) goods held the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of the Borrower or the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than the Borrower) is greater after giving pro forma effect to such consolidation or merger and any related financing transactions as if the same had occurred at the beginning of the applicable Test Period than the Borrower’s actual Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business;period. (ixb) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries A Subsidiary Guarantor may not sell or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its assets to, or consolidate with or merge with or into (whether or not such Subsidiary Guarantor is the surviving Person), another Person, other than the Borrower or another Subsidiary Guarantor, unless: (i) outdatedimmediately after giving effect to that transaction, obsolete, surplus no Default or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course Event of business and Default exists; and (ii) either: (A) the Person acquiring the property no longer used in any such sale or useful in disposition or the conduct Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger assumes all the obligations of that Subsidiary Guarantor under this Agreement and the business of other Credit Documents on terms and pursuant to documentation reasonably acceptable to the Lead Borrower and its Restricted SubsidiariesAdministrative Agent; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (yB) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or other disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth in, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f) hereof (to the extent applicable);; or (xxvC) immediately after giving effect to that transaction, such Person qualifies as an Excluded Subsidiary and any Investments and or Asset Sales effected in connection with such transaction are otherwise permitted by, and treated as, Restricted Payments under Section 10.03, Investments under Section 10.05 and/or Asset Sales under Section 10.08, as applicable. (c) In addition, the Borrower may not, and shall not permit any Subsidiary Guarantor to, directly or indirectly, lease all or substantially all of the properties or assets of the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors, taken as a whole, in one or more related transactions, to any other Person. (d) This Section 10.02 shall not apply to (i) a merger of the Borrower with an Affiliate solely for the purpose of reincorporating the Borrower in another jurisdiction or forming a direct holding company of the Borrower; and (ii) any sale, transfer, assignment, conveyance, lease or other disposition of any asset assets between or among the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, including by way of merger or consolidation. (e) Upon any consolidation or merger, or any sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a substantially concurrent interim whole in a transaction that is subject to, and that complies with the provisions of, Sections 10.02(a) through and including 10.02(d), the successor corporation formed by such consolidation or into or with which the Borrower is merged or to which such sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To so that from and after the extent the Required Lenders waive date of such consolidation, merger, sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition, the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect Agreement and the other Credit Documents referring to the “Borrower” shall refer instead to the successor corporation and not to the Borrower), and may exercise every right and power of the Borrower under this Agreement and the other Credit Documents with the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as the Borrower herein; provided, however, that the predecessor Borrower shall not be relieved from its payment obligations hereunder except in the case of a sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear all of the Liens created by the Security DocumentsBorrower’s assets in a transaction that is subject to, and that complies with the Administrative Agent provisions of, Section 10.02(a) through and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoingincluding 10.02(d).

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Samples: Credit Agreement (Dynegy Inc.)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assetsassets (including, in each case, pursuant to a Delaware LLC Division), or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any Person, except that: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assets, assets so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 25,000,00050,000,000 and (B) 2.02.03.0% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) ); provided that if any such disposition involves assets that accounted for more than 10% of the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and Borrowing Base at the time of such sale, the Borrowers shall deliver an updated Borrowing Base Certificate to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d)Administrative Agent recalculating the Borrowing Base after giving effect to such disposition in connection with such disposition; (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (iv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (y), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation), and any Guaranties shall continue in full force and effect; (vii) [reserved]reserved]each Credit Party may convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets to another Credit Party; (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventory, (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,0007,500,00010,000,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) Subsidiary from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services AgreementsSwap Contracts; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than HoldingsHoldingsthe Lead Borrower), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than HoldingsHoldingsthe Lead Borrower) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05.; (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth in, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Revolving Credit Agreement (PAE Inc)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Holdings and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries the Subsidiary Guarantors to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs affairs, or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease sell or otherwise dispose of all or any part substantially all of its property or assets, assets or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any PersonCollateral or agree to do any of the foregoing at any future time, except thatthat the following shall be permitted: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 Subsidiary of Holdings (other than the Borrower) may be structured merged or consolidated with or into, or be liquidated into, the Borrower (so long as a merger, consolidation the Borrower is the surviving corporation) or amalgamation; any Guarantor (so long as such Guarantor is the surviving corporation) and (ii) all or any part of the Lead Borrower business, properties and assets of Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than the Borrower) may sell assetsbe conveyed, so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable leased, sold or transferred to the Lead Borrower or any Guarantor or any Subsidiary of the Borrower or any Guarantors, provided that if any Collateral is transferred pursuant to this Section 8.02(a), Holdings and/or the Borrower shall provide the Administrative Agent with ten Business Days' notice prior to such transfer, and the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, owning the Collateral after such transfer shall take all action reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent and/or the Security Trustee in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time respect of the closing con tinued priority and perfection of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 and (B) 2.0% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d)Collateral; (iiib) each of Holdings may liquidate or dissolve or consolidate or merge into another entity, provided (i) Holdings is the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) successor or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (iv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, survivor in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person respect of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (y), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto Holdings will be in full compliance with the terms of this Agreement and (IIii) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors Standard & Poor's shall have affirmed in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any writing that such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent will not impair Holdings' implied senior debt rating as such debt rating is in effect immediately prior to the announcement or consummation of such liquidation, dissolution, consolidation or merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (viic) [reserved]; (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make other sales or leases dispositions of assets provided that (Ax) inventory, (Bthe Total Commitment shall be reduced as required by Section 3.03(c) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell sale or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose disposition of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower constituting Collateral and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or each such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer sale or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may shall be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost fair market value thereof (as determined by the Board of such property; provided that any Directors of the Borrower in the case of sales in excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any $20,000,000) and for proceeds consisting solely of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights not less than 100% cash in the ordinary course case of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; assets constituting Collateral and (xviiz) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of no such sale or disposition are promptly applied to shall constitute the purchase price sale or disposition of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions all or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth in, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result substantially all of the exercise combined assets of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), Holdings and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted its Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02taken together; and (xxvid) other sales or dispositions permitted by Section 10.03of assets in each case to the extent the Required Banks have consented in writing thereto and subject to such conditions as may be set forth in such consent. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold or otherwise disposed of (to any Person other than Holdings and its Subsidiaries) as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof)8.02, such Collateral shall be sold or otherwise disposed of free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and Security Trustee shall be authorized to, to take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Credit Agreement (R&b Falcon Corp)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower Borrowers will not, and will not permit any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any saleSale-leaseback transactions of any PersonLeaseback Transaction, except that: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assetsassets (including Equity Interests), so long as as, (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than the greater of $10,000,00011,250,000 and 1.00% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the time of such sale), at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Lead Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities securities, notes, other obligations or assets received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, (C) consideration consisting of Indebtedness of Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary that is not Subordinated Indebtedness received from such transferee, (D) accounts receivable of a business retained by Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, following the sale of such business; provided that such accounts receivable (1) are not past due more than 90 days and (C2) do not have a payment date greater than 120 days from the date of the invoices creating such accounts receivable and (E) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 54,000,000 and (B) 2.04.50% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration Consideration) (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (iv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead a Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead a Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead a Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party Subsidiary Guarantor (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead a Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead a Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign other Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead a Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead a Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (yvi), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain not be impaired in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent any material respect as in effect immediately prior to a result of such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]any disposition of (i) Securitization Assets arising in connection with a Qualified Securitization Transaction or (ii) the Receivables Assets arising in connection with a Receivables Facility, in each case, permitted by Section 10.04; (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventoryinventory in the ordinary course of business, (B) goods held for sale in the ordinary course of business and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than the greater of $10,000,000 in 11,250,000 and 1.00% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the ordinary course time of businesssuch sale or lease, as applicable); (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (wx) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (xy) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of the greater of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 3021,000,000 and 1.75% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the aggregate consideration paid for time of such Permitted Acquisitionsale or other disposition), and (z) such assets are sold, transferred sold or otherwise disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions (a) involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash and fair market value (as determined by Lead Borrower) or (b) with respect to any other Sale-Leaseback Transactions not described in subclause (xii)(a), having an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the aggregate fair market value not in excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any greater of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any $11,250,000 and 1.00% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the time of such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(dTransaction); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents (or other assets that were Cash Equivalents when the relevant Investment was made) to make payments that are not otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07prohibited by this Agreement; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, ; provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary in joint ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth inbetween, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiarybinding arrangements; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders (or such other percentage of the Lenders as may be required by Section 10.02) waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead a Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereofGuarantor), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, to take any actions deemed appropriate by them in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: First Lien Term Loan Credit Agreement (VERRA MOBILITY Corp)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower will not, Each of the Company and any Restricted Subsidiary will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnershipmerge, joint venture, amalgamate or transaction of merger or consolidationconsolidate, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any Person, except that: (i) any Credit Party may make any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 and any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell assetsNon-ABL Priority Collateral (and, so long as a new Borrowing Base Certificate is delivered in connection with any Significant Asset Sale, ABL Priority Collateral), so long as (x) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, (y) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower Company or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower Company or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower Company or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (yz) in the case of any single transaction other than an Asset Exchange that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,00025,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower Company or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, cash or Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)consideration) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (yz), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writingdisposition, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (yz) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A1) $25,000,000 75,000,000 and (B2) 2.02.00% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may lease sell upon payment therefor in the ordinary course of business any Accounts in connection with any reverse factoring program established by an Account Debtor (x) as lesseein effect on the Second Amendment Effective Date or (y) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except thereafter to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii))the Company in good faith believes that such program is in the beneficial to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, with respect to establishing or continuing its relationship with such Account Debtor; (iv) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell assets pursuant to a Tax Incentive Transaction; (vi) each of the Company and any Restricted Subsidiary may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower Company or any of its Restricted SubsidiariesSubsidiary, including of Intellectual Property; (vivii) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Company may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, or amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower Company (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, consolidation or amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state State thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead BorrowerCompany, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower Company under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation)Subsidiary, (x) any Foreign Canadian Subsidiary or Excluded U.K. Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Company may merge into or consolidate or amalgamate with any other Canadian Subsidiary or U.K. Subsidiary of the Company, (y) any Foreign Subsidiary (other than a Canadian Credit Party or English Credit Party) may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded SubsidiaryCompany, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving or continuing corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (yz) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Company may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving or continuing corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (y), vii) so long as (I) no Default and no or Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto thereto, (II) if any such merger, consolidation or amalgamation is between a Credit Party and a Subsidiary not a Credit Party, then the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation or amalgamation must be a Credit Party and (IIIII) any security interests and Liens granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in and on the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (viiviii) [reserved]any Subsidiary of the Company may be liquidated or dissolved so long as no Event of Default exists or would result therefrom, and (a) if such Subsidiary is a Restricted Subsidiary, all of the assets of such entity are transferred to another Restricted Subsidiary and (b) if such Subsidiary is a Credit Party, (1) all of the assets of such Subsidiary are transferred to another Credit Party and (2) any security interests and Liens granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in and on the assets of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable, and (c) if such Subsidiary is a Credit Party and the transferee of such assets is not a Credit Party whose assets are included in the calculation of the same portion of the Borrowing Base as the transferor, a new Borrowing Base Certificate shall have been provided; (viiiix) any transfer arising out of the granting or creation of any Permitted Lien; (x) sales, transfers or dispositions of Cash Equivalents in the ordinary course of business; (xi) sale of Accounts pursuant to put options entered into in the ordinary course of business, not for speculative purposes but to complement trade insurance; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may make sales or leases of (A) inventory, inventory and (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market valuesale, in the each case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ixxiii) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell or otherwise dispose of (ix) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out tangible or real property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and or in connection with the sale or other disposition of manufacturing assets, (iiy) tangible or real property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted SubsidiariesSubsidiary or (z) leasehold improvements or leased assets in connection with the termination of the lease; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xixiv) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a any Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xiixv) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property and/or equipment acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xivxvi) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xvxvii) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvixviii) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may abandon or allow to lapse Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, which in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each business judgment of the Lead Borrower and its Company or a Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each Subsidiary are not material to the conduct of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties business of the Lead Borrower or Company and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third partiesSubsidiary taken as a whole; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Hedging Agreements; (xx) each of the Company and any Restricted Subsidiary may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower Company or its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings)Parties, (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, ; provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05.Subsidiary; (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted in Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary Ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth inbetween, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiarybinding arrangements; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers any transfer of property or assets that have been subject to is a casualty to the respective insurer surrender or waiver of such real property as part a contractual, regulatory, or legal right or a settlement, surrender, or release of an insurance settlementa contractual, regulatory, legal or tort claim; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); and (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Credit Agreement (Resolute Forest Products Inc.)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower Borrowers will not, and will not permit any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any saleSale-leaseback transactions of any PersonLeaseback Transaction, except that: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assetsassets (including Equity Interests), so long as as, (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than the greater of $10,000,00011,250,000 and 1.00% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the time of such sale), at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Lead Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities securities, notes, other obligations or assets received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, (C) consideration consisting of Indebtedness of Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary that is not Subordinated Indebtedness received from such transferee, (D) accounts receivable of a business retained by Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, following the sale of such business; provided that such accounts receivable (1) are not past due more than 90 days and (C2) do not have a payment date greater than 120 days from the date of the invoices creating such accounts receivable and (E) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 54,000,000 and (B) 2.04.50% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration Consideration) (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (iv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead a Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead a Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead a Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party Subsidiary Guarantor (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead a Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead a Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign other Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead a Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead a Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (yvi), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain not be impaired in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent any material respect as in effect immediately prior to a result of such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]any disposition of (i) Securitization Assets arising in connection with a Qualified Securitization Transaction or (ii) the Receivables Assets arising in connection with a Receivables Facility, in each case, permitted by Section 10.04; (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventoryinventory in the ordinary course of business, (B) goods held for sale in the ordinary course of business and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than the greater of $10,000,000 in 11,250,000 and 1.00% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the ordinary course time of businesssuch sale or lease, as applicable); (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (wx) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (xy) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of the greater of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 3021,000,000 and 1.75% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the aggregate consideration paid for time of such Permitted Acquisitionsale or other disposition), and (z) such assets are sold, transferred sold or otherwise disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions (a) involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash and fair market value (as determined by Lead Borrower) or (b) with respect to any other Sale-Leaseback Transactions not described in subclause (xii)(a), having an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the aggregate fair market value not in excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any greater of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any $11,250,000 and 1.00% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the time of such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(dTransaction); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents (or other assets that were Cash Equivalents when the relevant Investment was made) to make payments that are not otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07prohibited by this Agreement; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, ; provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary in joint ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth inbetween, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiarybinding arrangements; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders (or such other percentage of the Lenders as may be required by Section 10.02) waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead a Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereofGuarantor), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, to take any actions deemed appropriate by them in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: First Lien Term Loan Credit Agreement (VERRA MOBILITY Corp)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or dissolve, enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assetsassets (other than sales of inventory in the ordinary course of business), or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any Persontransactions, except that: (i) the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may liquidate or otherwise dispose of obsolete or worn-out property, worn-out, uneconomical, surplus or no longer used property in the ordinary course of business or dispose of inventory, goods held for sale in the ordinary course of business and immaterial assets (including allowing any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may registrations or any applications for registration of any intellectual property to be structured as a mergercancelled, consolidation to lapse or amalgamationgo abandoned) in the ordinary course of business; (ii) Investments may be made to the Lead extent permitted by Section 10.05; (iii) the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assetsassets (other than all or substantially all of the assets of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries (taken together)), so long as (xv) at the time the agreement in respect of the proposed disposition is entered into no Event of Default then exists or would result therefrom, (w) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable an arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value Fair Market Value, (as determined x) if the assets sold have a Fair Market Value in good faith excess of $5,000,000 the consideration (other than (A) the assumption by the Lead transferee of Indebtedness or other liabilities contingent or otherwise of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and the valid release of the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, from all liability on such Indebtedness or other liability in connection with such disposition, (B) any securities securities, notes or other obligations received by such the Borrower or such any of its Restricted Subsidiary Subsidiaries from such the transferee that are converted by such the Borrower or such any of its Restricted Subsidiary Subsidiaries into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset salesuch disposition, and (C) Indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary that is no longer a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such disposition, to the extent that the Borrower and each other Restricted Subsidiary are released from any guarantee of payment of such Indebtedness in connection with such disposition, (D) consideration consisting of Indebtedness of the Borrower (other than Subordinated Indebtedness) received after the Closing Date from Persons who are not the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary and (E) in connection with a sale constituting an asset swap, the requirements of this clause (x) shall not apply) received consists of at least 75% cash or Cash Equivalents (provided that any Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any in respect of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 and (B) 2.0% of Consolidated Total Assets paid at the time of the receipt Table of Contents closing of such sale having an aggregate Fair Market Value, taken together with the Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration in respect of all other sales pursuant to this Section 10.02(iii), not in excess of $5,000,000 (with the fair market value Fair Market Value of each item of Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration being measured at as of the time received and without giving effect received) shall be deemed to subsequent changes in valuebe cash) and (zy) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied and/or reinvested as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d5.02(e); (iiiiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii10.04(iv)); (ivv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case without recourse and in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (vvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant (x) licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases (including leases or subleases of hospitals not operated by the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary) to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (y), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]; (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventory, (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as or (and y) licenses or sublicenses to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d)customers; (xiiivii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue convey, sell or sell Equity Interests inotherwise transfer property to the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary; provided that if the transferor of such property is the Borrower or a Subsidiary Guarantor, (x) the transferee thereof must be the Borrower or Indebtedness a Subsidiary Guarantor or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary(y) during the term of this Agreement the aggregate amount of dispositions to a transferee that is not the Borrower or a Subsidiary Guarantor shall not exceed the greater of (x) $12,000,000 and (y) 12% of Consolidated EBITDA for the Test Period then last ended as of such time for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 9.01(a) or (b) (measured at the time of each such disposition); (xvviii) each of the Lead Borrower any Restricted Subsidiary may merge, amalgamate or consolidate with and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty into, or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings)with respect to the Borrower) be dissolved or liquidated into, (Bx) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries the Borrower; provided that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) Borrower shall be the continuing or surviving Person or (Dy) by Credit Parties to one or more other Restricted Subsidiaries; provided that (1) when any such other Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit PartySubsidiary Guarantor is merging with a Restricted Subsidiary, provided a Subsidiary Guarantor shall be the continuing or surviving Person or the continuing or surviving Person shall become a Subsidiary Guarantor substantially concurrently with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) transaction and the Borrower complies with the applicable requirements of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value Section 9.11 and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for when any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such other Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth in, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection Credit Support Party is merging with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any CollateralRestricted Subsidiary, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower a Subsidiary Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral Credit Support Party shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by continuing or surviving Person or the Security Documents, continuing or surviving Person shall become a Subsidiary Guarantor or a Credit Support Party substantially concurrently with the transaction and the Administrative Agent and Borrower complies with the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.applicable requirements of Section 9.11;

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Samples: Credit Agreement (Capella Healthcare, Inc.)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower Parent will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, to (x) wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnershipaffairs, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or (y) convey, sell, lease lease, charter or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property the Collateral or assets(z) convey, sell, lease, charter or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions substantial part of, the assets (other than Margin Stock) (i.e. taken as a whole) of any Personthe Parent and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, except that: (i) any Investment Investments by the Parent and its Subsidiaries shall be permitted by in accordance with Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation10.05; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assets, so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted any Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 and (B) 2.0% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries Parent may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii10.04(vii)); provided that, the lease of any Rig will be subject to the terms set forth in clause (vii) below; (iviii) each any Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries Parent may sell or discount, in each case without recourse and in the ordinary course of business, overdue accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof consistent with customary industry practice (and not as part of any bulk sale or financing transaction); (iv) any Credit Party may sell or otherwise transfer all or any part of the Collateral to any other Credit Party, in each case so long as the Collateral and Guaranty Requirements shall be fully satisfied after giving effect thereto; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Parent (other than the Borrower) may merge with and into, or be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated dissolved or liquidated with or into into, the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of AmericaBorrower, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) Subsidiary Guarantor or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded SubsidiaryParent, so long as (w) in the case of any such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary merger, dissolution or such Excluded Subsidiaryliquidation involving the Borrower, as applicable, the Borrower is the surviving corporation of any such merger, consolidationdissolution or liquidation, dissolution(x) except as provided in preceding clause (w), amalgamation in the cases of any such merger, dissolution or liquidation and (y) any Foreign involving a Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be mergedGuarantor, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party a Subsidiary Guarantor is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidationdissolution or liquidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause and (y)) in all cases, so long as (I) no Default the Collateral and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately Guaranty Requirements shall be fully satisfied after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation dissolution or liquidation); (viivi) [reserved]the Parent may (x) merge or consolidate with any other Person so long as the Parent is the surviving entity, no Default or Event of Default then exists or is continuing at such time, the Parent shall continue to be organized in the United States or another jurisdiction acceptable to the Administrative Agent, there is no Change of Control and the Collateral and Guaranty Requirements shall be satisfied after giving effect thereto and (y) merge or consolidate with a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Parent so long as there is no Change of Control; (viiivii) each any Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Parent may enter into demise, bareboat, time, voyage and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales other charter or lease arrangements pursuant to which any such Subsidiary charters or leases of (A) inventory, (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with out a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ix) each Rig to another Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell Parent or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out propertyto a third Person, in each case, case so long as (x) such arrangements are entered into in the ordinary course of business and consistent with past practices, (iiy) property no longer used or useful in such arrangements do not materially impair the conduct value of the business Rig or Rigs subject to such arrangements and (z) such arrangements involving any Collateral Rigs do not impair the security interest of the Lead Borrower Collateral Agent in such Collateral Rigs (or the ability of the Collateral Agent to foreclose on each Collateral Rig or exercise its remedies in respect thereof, in each case free of such arrangements) and such arrangements are subject in all respects to the Collateral Agent’s Lien on such Collateral Rigs; (viii) any Subsidiary of the Parent that is not a Credit Party may sell or otherwise transfer all or any part of its Restricted Subsidiariesbusiness, properties or assets (other than a Rig) to any Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Parent; (ix) so long as no Default or Event of Default then exists or would result therefrom, Inactive Subsidiaries of the Parent may be liquidated or dissolved from time to time, so long as (x) the Parent determines that such liquidation is not adverse to the interests of the Lenders and (y) the security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors pursuant to the Security Documents shall remain in full force and effect (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such dissolution or liquidation); (x) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to transfer any Rig from the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower Parent or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and Subsidiaries, to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue Parent or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to of the extent required byParent, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between provided that in the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders case of such Subsidiary set forth inCollateral Rigs, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), Collateral and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02Guaranty Requirements shall be fully satisfied after giving effect thereto; and (xxvixi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03any Redomestication shall be permitted. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof)10.02, such Collateral (unless sold to the Parent or a Subsidiary of the Parent) shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, to take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Credit Agreement (Atwood Oceanics Inc)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower Borrowers will not, and will not permit any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any saleSale-leaseback transactions of any PersonLeaseback Transaction, except that: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assetsassets (including Equity Interests), so long as as, (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or (including Equity Interests Interests) having a fair market value of more than the greater of $10,000,0008,000,000 and 1.00% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the time of such sale), at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Lead Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities securities, notes, other obligations or assets received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, (C) consideration consisting of Indebtedness of Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary that is not Subordinated Indebtedness received from such transferee, (D) accounts receivable of a business retained by Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, following the sale of such business; provided that such accounts receivable (1) are not past due more than 90 days and (C2) do not have a payment date greater than 120 days from the date of the invoices creating such accounts receivable and (E) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 36,000,000 and (B) 2.04.50% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration Consideration) (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (iv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead a Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead a Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead a Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party Subsidiary Guarantor (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead a Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead a Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign other Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead a Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead a Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (yvi), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain not be impaired in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent any material respect as in effect immediately prior to a result of such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]any disposition of (i) Securitization Assets arising in connection with a Qualified Securitization Transaction or (ii) the Receivables Assets arising in connection with a Receivables Facility, in each case, permitted by Section 10.04(xxiv); (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventoryinventory in the ordinary course of business, (B) goods held for sale in the ordinary course of business and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than the greater of $10,000,000 in 8,000,000 and 1.00% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the ordinary course time of businesssuch sale or lease, as applicable); (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (wx) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (xy) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of the greater of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 3016,000,000 and 2.00% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the aggregate consideration paid for time of such Permitted Acquisitionsale or other disposition), and (z) such assets are sold, transferred sold or otherwise disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions (a) involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash and fair market value (as determined by Lead Borrower) or (b) with respect to any other Sale-Leaseback Transactions not described in subclause (xii)(a), having an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the aggregate fair market value not in excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any greater of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any $8,000,000 and 1.00% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the time of such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Transaction); (xiii) Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after may consummate the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]Transactions; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may permit to lapse or abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents (or other assets that were Cash Equivalents when the relevant Investment was made) to make payments that are not otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07prohibited by this Agreement; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, ; provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05.; (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary in joint ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth inbetween, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiarybinding arrangements; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders (or such other percentage of the Lenders as may be required by Section 10.02) waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead a Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereofGuarantor), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate by them in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Term Loan Credit Agreement (Interior Logic Group Holdings, LLC)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower will not, and will not permit any Whether in one transaction or a series of its Restricted Subsidiaries totransactions, wind up, divide, liquidate or dissolve its affairs affairs, or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease sell or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any PersonCollateral, except that: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 a Borrower may be structured as a mergermerge with and into, consolidation or amalgamationtransfer assets to, or divide into, another Borrower; (ii) the Lead a Borrower and may wind up, liquidate, divide or dissolve its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assets, affairs so long as (x) each prior thereto such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in makes a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiarydisposition of all of its property, as the case may be)stock, (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary assets (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent assets of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 and (B) 2.0% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in de minimis value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d)another Borrower; (iii) each a Borrower may agree to the removal by a Receivables Sub or a Borrower of any Library Title from the Collateral provided that: (a) LGE purchases (or causes a Subsidiary of LGE to purchase) the rights to the Library Title from such Borrower or Receivables Sub at a fair market value in an amount equal to the higher of (A) (I) the most recent Valuation Amount for such Library Title or (II) if the most recent Valuation Amount does not include a specific value for such Library Title, the value determined by the Master Servicer in good faith based upon the methodology used in the most recent Valuation Report and (B) the sale price of such Library Title to a third party by LGE (or such Subsidiary of LGE); (b) 100% of the Lead Borrower net proceeds from such sale are applied to prepay the Loans; and (c) such sales of any Library Titles in the aggregate are limited to a maximum of 5% of the most recent Valuation Amount (or such higher percentage up to 20% of the Valuation Amount approved by the Administrative Agent in its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) sole discretion or license (as licensee) real with respect to any sale in the aggregate of 20% or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to more of the extent permitted Valuation Amount, approved by Section 10.04(iii)the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders); (iv) each a Borrower may agree to the removal by a Receivables Sub or a Borrower of any Library Title from the Collateral provided that (a) LGE replaces (or causes a Subsidiary of LGE to replace) the rights to such Library Title with any other Library Title(s) that has/have a fair market value in an amount greater than or equal to the most recent Valuation Amount for such Library Title and (b) such replacement of any Library Titles in the aggregate are limited to a maximum of 5% of the Lead Borrower most recent Valuation Amount (or (x) such higher percentage up to 20% of the Valuation Amount approved by the Administrative Agent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell the Required Lenders or discount, in each case (y) with respect to any sale in the ordinary course aggregate of business20% or more of the Valuation Amount, accounts receivable arising in approved by the ordinary course Administrative Agent and Lenders holding 66 2/3% of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part aggregate principal amount of any financing transactionthe outstanding Loans); (v) each a Borrower may dispose of cash and Cash Equivalents not in violation of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct terms of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Propertythis Credit Agreement; (vi) a Borrower may transfer certain licensing and distribution rights in the Library Titles to the applicable Receivables Sub in accordance with the Receivables Sub Transaction Documents (w) any Domestic Subsidiary as in effect on the Phase 2 Closing Date or as modified after the Phase 2 Closing Date with the written consent of the Lead Borrower may be mergedRequired Lenders); and (vii) pursuant to Liens permitted by Section 6.2 provided, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws that immediately prior to and immediately after giving effect to any of the United States of Americatransactions contemplated in this Section 6.6, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (y), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]; (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventory, (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall occurred and be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05continuing. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth in, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Credit Agreement (Lions Gate Entertainment Corp /Cn/)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower will may not, and will directly or indirectly: (a) consolidate or merge with or into another Person (whether or not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate the Borrower is the surviving corporation) or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease assign, transfer, convey or otherwise dispose of all or any part substantially all of the properties or assets of the Borrower or its property Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole, in one or assetsmore related transactions, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any to another Person; in each case, except thatunless: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assets, so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be casheither: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s the Borrower is the surviving corporation; or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) the Person formed by or surviving any securities received by such Borrower consolidation or merger (if other than the Borrower) or to which such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower assignment, transfer, conveyance or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 and (B) 2.0% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (iv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation disposition has been made is a corporation, partnership or limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of AmericaStates, any state thereof of the United States or the District of Columbia andColumbia; (ii) the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than the Borrower) or the Person to which such sale, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrowerassignment, such Person expressly assumestransfer, in writing, conveyance or other disposition has been made assumes all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form joinder agreements or other documents and substance agreements reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent; (iii) or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of immediately after such mergertransaction, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (y), so long as (I) no Default and no or Event of Default then exists exists; and (A) the Borrower or would exist immediately the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than the Borrower), or to which such sale, assignment, transfer, conveyance or other disposition has been made will, on the date of such transaction after giving pro forma effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted related financing transactions as if the same had occurred at the beginning of the applicable four-quarter period, be permitted to incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness pursuant to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio test set forth in the assets (and Equity InterestsSection 10.04(a) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]; (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventory, (B) goods held the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of the Borrower or the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than the Borrower) is greater after giving pro forma effect to such consolidation or merger and any related financing transactions as if the same had occurred at the beginning of the applicable Test Period than the Borrower’s actual Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business;period. (ixb) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries A Subsidiary Guarantor may not sell or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its assets to, or consolidate with or merge with or into (whether or not such Subsidiary Guarantor is the surviving Person), another Person, other than the Borrower or another Subsidiary Guarantor, unless: (i) outdatedimmediately after giving effect to that transaction, obsolete, surplus no Default or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course Event of business and Default exists; and (ii) either: (A) the Person acquiring the property no longer used in any such sale or useful in disposition or the conduct Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger assumes all the obligations of that Subsidiary Guarantor under this Agreement and the business of other Credit Documents on terms and pursuant to documentation reasonably acceptable to the Lead Borrower and its Restricted SubsidiariesAdministrative Agent; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (yB) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or other disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth in, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f) hereof (to the extent applicable);; or (xxvC) immediately after giving effect to that transaction, such Person qualifies as an Excluded Subsidiary and any Investments and or Asset Sales effected in connection with such transaction are otherwise permitted by, and treated as, Restricted Payments under Section 10.03, Investments under Section 10.05 and/or Asset Sales under Section 10.08, as applicable. (c) In addition, the Borrower may not, and shall not permit any Subsidiary Guarantor to, directly or indirectly, lease all or substantially all of the properties or assets of the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors, taken as a whole, in one or more related transactions, to any other Person. (d) This Section 10.02 shall not apply to (i) a merger of the Borrower with an Affiliate solely for the purpose of reincorporating the Borrower in another jurisdiction or forming a direct holding company of the Borrower; and (ii) any sale, transfer, assignment, conveyance, lease or other disposition of any asset assets between or among the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, including by way of merger or consolidation. (e) Upon any consolidation or merger, or any sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a substantially concurrent interim whole in a transaction that is subject to, and that complies with the provisions of, Sections 10.02(a) through and including 10.02(d), the successor corporation formed by such consolidation or into or with which the Borrower is merged or to which such sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To so that from and after the extent the Required Lenders waive date of such consolidation, merger, sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition, the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect Agreement and the other Credit Documents referring to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than “Borrower” shall refer instead to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereofsuccessor corporation and not to the Borrower), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear may exercise every right and power of the Liens created by the Security Documents, Borrower under this Agreement and the Administrative Agent and other Credit Documents with the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to same effect as if such successor Person had been named as the foregoing.Borrower

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Samples: Credit Agreement (Dynegy Inc.)

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Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower Bermuda Parent will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries other Obligor to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint ventureaffairs, or transaction of effect any merger or consolidation, or conveyand the Bermuda Parent will not, and will not permit any consolidated Subsidiary to, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part substantially all of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any Person, except that: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assets, so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent sales of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 and (B) 2.0% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (iv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case inventory in the ordinary course of business) except that this Section 8.02 shall not prohibit any of the following transactions, accounts receivable arising in or any agreement to effect the ordinary course of businesssame: (a) if, but only in connection with at the compromise or collection time thereof and not as part immediately after giving effect thereto, no Event of Default or Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the merger of any financing transaction; (v) each of other Person with and into the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower Bermuda Parent or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; if (vii) (w) in any Domestic Subsidiary of transaction involving the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof Bermuda Parent or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead U.S. Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of Bermuda Parent or the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead U.S. Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such mergerPerson, consolidation(ii) in any other transaction, dissolutiona Wholly-Owned Subsidiary is the surviving entity, amalgamation or liquidation and (yiii) in either case, the Bermuda Parent, the U.S. Borrower, and their Subsidiaries shall be in compliance, on a pro forma basis after giving effect to such transaction, with the covenants contained in this Article VIII recomputed as of the last day of the most recently ended fiscal quarter of the Bermuda Parent, the U.S. Borrower, and their Subsidiaries as if such transaction had occurred on the first day of each relevant period for testing such compliance, and the U.S. Borrower (with respect to any Foreign merger with a Person not a consolidated Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation Bermuda Parent) shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (y), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted have delivered to the Collateral Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior an officer's certificate to such mergereffect, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation)together with all relevant financial information and calculations demonstrating such compliance; (viib) [reserved]; (viii) each transactions and transfers of the Lead Borrower assets among or between Obligors and/or Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries or among and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventory, (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out propertybetween Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries, in each case, in not prohibited by Section 8.07; and (c) dispositions not otherwise permitted hereunder which are made for fair market value; provided that (i) at the ordinary course time of business and any disposition, no Default or Event of Default shall exist or shall result from such disposition, (ii) property no longer used or useful the aggregate sales price from such disposition shall be paid in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell cash or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful on payment terms satisfactory to the core applicable Obligor or principal business of the Lead Borrower Subsidiary, and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (yiii) the aggregate proceeds (determined in book value of all assets of the Bermuda Parent and its Subsidiaries, taken as a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such saleswhole, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30be reduced at any time to an amount which is less than 80% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such book value of all assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead U.S. Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests inSubsidiaries, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth in, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property taken as a result of whole, on December 31, 2000, as reflected on the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise)U.S. Borrower's balance sheet dated December 31, and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing2000.

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Samples: Credit Agreement (Weatherford International LTD)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower Holdings will not, and will not permit any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any PersonSale‑Leaseback Transaction, except that: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assetsassets (including Equity Interests), so long as as, (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower Holdings or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than the greater of $10,000,00031,800,000 and 10% of LTM Consolidated EBITDA (measured at the time of such sale), at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s Holdings’ or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities securities, notes, other obligations or assets received by such Borrower Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower Holdings or any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 63,600,000 and (B) 2.020.0% of LTM Consolidated Total Assets EBITDA (measured at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration Consideration) (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii10.04(iv)); (iv) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases subleases, including of Intellectual Property, to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower Holdings or any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Holdings may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into Holdings or the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not Holdings or the Lead Borrower, as applicable, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of Holdings or the Lead Borrower Borrower, as applicable, under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party Subsidiary Guarantor (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead BorrowerHoldings, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower Holdings may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign other Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation Holdings and (y) any Foreign Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower Holdings may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (yvi), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain not be impaired in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent any material respect as in effect immediately prior to a result of such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]each of Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries may make any disposition of (i) Securitization Assets arising in connection with a Qualified Securitization Transaction or (ii) the Receivables Assets arising in connection with a Receivables Facility, in each case, permitted by Section 10.04; (viii) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventoryinventory in the ordinary course of business, (B) goods held for sale in the ordinary course of business and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than the greater of $10,000,000 31,800,000 and 10.0% of LTM Consolidated EBITDA (measured at the time of such sale or lease, as applicable) in the ordinary course of businessaggregate in any fiscal year, with unused amounts permitted to be carried forward to succeeding fiscal years; (ix) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus surplus, damaged or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (wx) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of Holdings and the Lead Borrower Restricted Subsidiaries and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred sold or otherwise disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Holdings may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Sale‑Leaseback Transactions (a) involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash and fair market value (as determined by Holdings) or (b) with respect to any other Sale‑Leaseback Transactions not described in subclause (xii)(a), having an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the aggregate fair market value not in excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any greater of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any $31,800,000 and 10% of LTM Consolidated EBITDA (measured at the time of such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(dTransaction); (xiii) [reservedintentionally omitted]; (xiv) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower Holdings or any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower Holdings or any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents (or other assets that were Cash Equivalents when the relevant Investment was made) to make payments that are not otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07prohibited by this Agreement; (xxi) each of Holdings or the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings)Parties, (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, ; provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05.; (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary in joint ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth inbetween, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiarybinding arrangements; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and; (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03; (xxvii) dispositions of spare satellites not in orbit on the Closing Date and related satellite capacity, teleports, hubs, modems, antennae, handheld and similar devices and spectrum (including leases of spectrum), services or accounts receivable and sales or dispositions of rights to construct or launch satellites (or satellite payload or components); (xxviii) any swap of owned or leased satellite transponder capacity for other satellite transponder capacity of comparable or greater value or usefulness to the business of Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries as a whole, as determined in good faith by Holdings; (xxix) sales or dispositions of rights to construct or launch satellites (or satellite payload or component); (i) the sale, lease or other transfer of products, equipment, inventory (including, without limitation, satellite capacity, transponders, transponder capacity, teleports, hubs, modems, antennae, handheld and similar devices and spectrum (including leases of spectrum)), services or accounts receivable in the ordinary course of business and (ii) the discount or forgiveness of accounts receivable in the ordinary course of business in connection with the collection or compromise thereof; and (xxxi) the positioning of any satellite in an inclined orbit or the abandonment or other disposition or sale of any satellite (or satellite payload or component) that is in the reasonable good faith judgment of Holdings, no longer economically practicable or reasonable to maintain. To the extent the Required Lenders (or such other percentage of the Lenders as may be required by this Section 10.02) waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereofCredit Party), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, to take any actions deemed appropriate by them in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Credit Agreement (Iridium Communications Inc.)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any saleSale-leaseback transactions of any PersonLeaseback Transaction, except that: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assetsassets (including Equity Interests), so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,00030,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities securities, notes, other obligations or assets received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, (C) consideration consisting of Indebtedness of the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary that is not Subordinated Indebtedness received from such transferee, (D) accounts receivable of a business retained by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, following the sale of such business; provided that such accounts receivable (1) are not past due more than 90 days and (C2) do not have a payment date greater than 120 days from the date of the invoices creating such accounts receivable and (E) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A1) $25,000,000 150,000,000 and (B2) 2.02.5% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration Consideration) (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (iv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party Subsidiary Guarantor (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign other Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (yvi), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain not be impaired in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent any material respect as in effect immediately prior to a result of such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]; (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventoryinventory in the ordinary course of business, (B) goods held for sale in the ordinary course of business and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business25,000,000; (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (wx) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (xy) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of the greater of (A) $7,500,000, 50,000,000 and (yB) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 300.75% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisitiontime of disposition thereof), and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions (a) involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received and fair market value (as determined by the Lead Borrower Borrower) or (b) with respect to any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all other Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as not described in subclause (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(dxii)(a), having an aggregate fair market value not in excess of $25,000,000; (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents (or other assets that were Cash Equivalents when the relevant Investment was made) to make payments that are not otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07prohibited by this Agreement; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, ; provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary in joint ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth inbetween, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiarybinding arrangements; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders (or such other percentage of the Lenders as may be required by Section 10.02) waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereofGuarantor), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, to take any actions deemed appropriate by them in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Term Loan Credit Agreement (Vertiv Holdings Co)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower Parent will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease lease, charter or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or any of the Collateral or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any Persontransactions, except that: (i) any Investment Investments by the Parent and its Subsidiaries shall be permitted by in accordance with Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation9.05; (ii) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assetsany Rigs other than the Collateral Rigs (and any related equipment and spare parts), so long as provided that, (xi) no Default or Event of Default is then in existence or would result from each such sale and (ii) the aggregate appraised value of Rigs sold pursuant to this clause (ii) may not exceed 20% of the Parent and its Subsidiaries’ consolidated assets, (iii) 100% of the consideration received by such Subsidiary of the Parent is on terms in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents which is received at the time of each such sale and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or (iv) such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least assets are sold for fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), (y) in the case Board of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,000, at least 75% Directors of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes Parent and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted relevant Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 and (B) 2.0% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each any Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries Parent may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii9.04(viii)); (iv) each any Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries Parent may sell or discount, in each case without recourse and in the ordinary course of business, overdue accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof consistent with customary industry practice (and not as part of any bulk sale or financing transaction); (v) each the Parent and any of its Subsidiaries (other than the Lead Borrower and Borrower) may sell or otherwise transfer all or any part of its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licensesbusiness, sublicenses, leases properties or subleases assets to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor, in each case so long as all actions necessary or desirable to preserve, protect and maintain the security interest and Lien of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including the Collateral Agent in any Collateral involved in any such transaction are taken to the satisfaction of Intellectual Propertythe Collateral Agent; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Parent (other than the Borrower) may merge with and into, or be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated dissolved or liquidated with or into into, the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of AmericaBorrower, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) Subsidiary Guarantor or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded SubsidiaryParent, so long as (w) in the case of any such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary merger, dissolution or such Excluded Subsidiaryliquidation involving the Borrower, as applicable, the Borrower is the surviving corporation of any such merger, consolidationdissolution or liquidation, dissolution(x) except as provided in preceding clause (w), amalgamation in the cases of any such merger, dissolution or liquidation and (y) any Foreign involving a Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be mergedGuarantor, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party a Subsidiary Guarantor is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidationdissolution or liquidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause and (y)) in all cases, so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any the security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in pursuant to the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction Security Documents shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation dissolution or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]any Subsidiary of the Parent may enter into demise, bareboat, time, voyage and other charter or lease arrangements pursuant to which any such Subsidiary charters or leases out a Rig to another Subsidiary of the Parent or to a third Person, in each case so long as (x) such arrangements are entered into in the ordinary course of business and consistent with past practices, (y) such arrangements do not materially impair the value of the Rig or Rigs subject to such arrangements and (z) such arrangements involving any Collateral Rigs do not impair the security interest of the Collateral Agent in such Collateral Rigs (or the ability of the Collateral Agent to foreclose on each Collateral Rig or exercise its remedies in respect thereof, in each case free of such arrangements) and such arrangements are subject in all respects to the Collateral Agent’s Lien on such Collateral Rigs; (viii) each any Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower and Parent that is not a Credit Party may sell or otherwise transfer all or any part of its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales business, properties or leases assets to any Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of (A) inventory, (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of businessParent; (ix) each any Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries Parent may (A) sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus uneconomic or worn worn-out property, in each case, equipment or materials in the ordinary course of business and (iiB) property no longer used or useful sell assets (other than Rigs) to the extent not otherwise permitted by this Section 9.02, provided that, (I) 100% of the consideration received by such Subsidiary of the Parent is in the conduct form of cash which is received at the time of each such sale, (II) such assets are sold in the ordinary course of business and (III) the aggregate sale proceeds from all assets subject to sales permitted by this Section 9.02(ix)(B) shall not exceed $500,000 in any fiscal year of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted SubsidiariesParent; (x) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell purchase, enter into a construction contract for the building of, or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to acquire a Permitted Acquisition so long as rig (w) such assets are not used or useful to and any related equipment and spare parts), specifically including the core or principal business of XXXXXX XXXXXX and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted AcquisitionNewbuilding Rigs, and (z) upon such assets are sold, transferred acquisition each such rig will be a “Rig” hereunder; provided that no Default or disposed Event of on Default is then in existence or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisitionwould result from each such purchase or other acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Subsidiaries may be merged, amalgamated make Material Upgrades to (i) the XXXXXX FALCON and (ii) any Rig that is not a Collateral Rig and purchase related equipment and spare parts therefor; provided that no Default or consolidated with Event of Default is then in existence or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated;would result from each such Material Upgrades; and (xii) so long as no Default or Event of Default then exists or would result therefrom, Inactive Subsidiaries of the Parent may be liquidated or dissolved from time to time, so long as (x) the Parent determines that such liquidation is not adverse to the interests of the Lenders and (y) the security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors pursuant to the Security Documents shall remain in full force and effect (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such dissolution or liquidation); and (xiii) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after transfer any Rig from the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower Parent or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and Subsidiaries, to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth in, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise Borrower, provided that, in the case of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject Collateral Rigs such transfer shall be to a casualty to Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the respective insurer Borrower and the provisions of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions Section 8.11 are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition satisfied in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03therewith. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 9.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof)9.02, such Collateral (unless sold to the Parent or a Subsidiary of the Parent) shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, to take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Credit Agreement (Atwood Oceanics Inc)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower Parent will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease lease, charter or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or any of the Collateral or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any Persontransactions, except that: (i) any Investment Investments by the Parent and its Subsidiaries shall be permitted by in accordance with Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation9.05; (ii) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assetsany Rigs other than the Collateral Rigs (and any related equipment and spare parts), so long as provided that, (xi) no Default or Event of Default is then in existence or would result from each such sale and (ii) the aggregate appraised value of Rigs sold pursuant to this clause (ii) may not exceed 20% of the Parent and its Subsidiaries’ consolidated assets, (iii) 100% of the consideration received by such Subsidiary of the Parent is on terms in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents which is received at the time of each such sale and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or (iv) such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least assets are sold for fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), (y) in the case Board of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,000, at least 75% Directors of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes Parent and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted relevant Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 and (B) 2.0% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each any Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries Parent may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii9.04(viii)); (iv) each any Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries Parent may sell or discount, in each case without recourse and in the ordinary course of business, overdue accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof consistent with customary industry practice (and not as part of any bulk sale or financing transaction); (v) each the Parent and any of its Subsidiaries (other than the Lead Borrower and Borrower) may sell or otherwise transfer all or any part of its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licensesbusiness, sublicenses, leases properties or subleases assets to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor, in each case so long as all actions necessary or desirable to preserve, protect and maintain the security interest and Lien of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including the Collateral Agent in any Collateral involved in any such transaction are taken to the satisfaction of Intellectual Propertythe Collateral Agent; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Parent (other than the Borrower) may merge with and into, or be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated dissolved or liquidated with or into into, the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of AmericaBorrower, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) Subsidiary Guarantor or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded SubsidiaryParent, so long as (w) in the case of any such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary merger, dissolution or such Excluded Subsidiaryliquidation involving the Borrower, as applicable, the Borrower is the surviving corporation of any such merger, consolidationdissolution or liquidation, dissolution(x) except as provided in preceding clause (w), amalgamation in the cases of any such merger, dissolution or liquidation and (y) any Foreign involving a Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be mergedGuarantor, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party a Subsidiary Guarantor is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidationdissolution or liquidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause and (y)) in all cases, so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any the security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in pursuant to the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction Security Documents shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation dissolution or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]any Subsidiary of the Parent may enter into demise, bareboat, time, voyage and other charter or lease arrangements pursuant to which any such Subsidiary charters or leases out a Rig to another Subsidiary of the Parent or to a third Person, in each case so long as (x) such arrangements are entered into in the ordinary course of business and consistent with past practices, (y) such arrangements do not materially impair the value of the Rig or Rigs subject to such arrangements and (z) such arrangements involving any Collateral Rigs do not impair the security interest of the Collateral Agent in such Collateral Rigs (or the ability of the Collateral Agent to foreclose on each Collateral Rig or exercise its remedies in respect thereof, in each case free of such arrangements) and such arrangements are subject in all respects to the Collateral Agent’s Lien on such Collateral Rigs; (viii) each any Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower and Parent that is not a Credit Party may sell or otherwise transfer all or any part of its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales business, properties or leases assets to any Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of (A) inventory, (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of businessParent; (ix) each any Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries Parent may (A) sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus uneconomic or worn worn-out property, in each case, equipment or materials in the ordinary course of business and (iiB) property no longer used or useful sell assets (other than Rigs) to the extent not otherwise permitted by this Section 9.02, provided that, (I) 100% of the consideration received by such Subsidiary of the Parent is in the conduct form of cash which is received at the time of each such sale, (II) such assets are sold in the ordinary course of business and (III) the aggregate sale proceeds from all assets subject to sales permitted by this Section 9.02(ix)(B) shall not exceed $500,000 in any fiscal year of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted SubsidiariesParent; (x) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell purchase, enter into a construction contract for the building of, or otherwise dispose acquire a rig (and any related equipment and spare parts), specifically including the ATWOOX XXXXXX, xxx upon such acquisition the rig will be a “Rig” hereunder; provided that no Default or Event of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) Default is then in existence or would result from each such assets are not used purchase or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisitionother acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Subsidiaries may be merged, amalgamated make Material Upgrades to any Rig that is not a Collateral Rig and purchase related equipment and spare parts therefor; provided that no Default or consolidated with Event of Default is then in existence or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated;would result from each such Material Upgrades; and (xii) each so long as no Default or Event of Default then exists or would result therefrom, Inactive Subsidiaries of the Lead Borrower Parent may be liquidated or dissolved from time to time, so long as (x) the Parent determines that such liquidation is not adverse to the interests of the Lenders and its Restricted Subsidiaries may (y) the security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors pursuant to the Security Documents shall remain in full force and effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after (to at least the Closing Date and not more than 180 days same extent as in effect immediately prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower dissolution or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(dliquidation); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth in, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 9.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof)9.02, such Collateral (unless sold to the Parent or a Subsidiary of the Parent) shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, to take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Credit Agreement (Atwood Oceanics Inc)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower Borrowers will not, and will not permit any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any saleSale-leaseback transactions of any PersonLeaseback Transaction, except that: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assetsassets (including Equity Interests), so long as as, (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than the greater of $10,000,00025,000,000 and 1.75% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the time of such sale), at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Lead Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities securities, notes, other obligations or assets received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, (C) consideration consisting of Indebtedness of Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary that is not Subordinated Indebtedness received from such transferee, (D) accounts receivable of a business retained by Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, following the sale of such business; provided that such accounts receivable (1) are not past due more than 90 days and (C2) do not have a payment date greater than 120 days from the date of the invoices creating such accounts receivable and (E) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 60,000,000 and (B) 2.04.50% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration Consideration) (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (iv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (y), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]; (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventory, (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth in, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: First Lien Term Loan Credit Agreement (VERRA MOBILITY Corp)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower will not, Each of the Company and any Restricted Subsidiary will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnershipmerge, joint venture, amalgamate or transaction of merger or consolidationconsolidate, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any Person, except that: (i) any Credit Party may make any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 and any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell assetsNon-ABL Priority Collateral (and, so long as a new Borrowing Base Certificate is delivered in connection with any Significant Asset Sale, ABL Priority Collateral), so long as (x) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, (y) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower Company or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower Company or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower Company or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (yz) in the case of any single transaction other than an Asset Exchange that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,00025,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower Company or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, cash or Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)consideration) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (yyz), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (yyz) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A1) $25,000,000 75,000,000 and (B2) 2.02.00% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may lease sell upon payment therefor in the ordinary course of business any Accounts in connection with the financingany reverse factoring program established by thean Account Debtor (x) as lesseein effect on the Closing Date or a substantially similar program entered into hereafterSecond Amendment Effective Date or (y) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except thereafter to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii))the Company in good faith believes that such program is in the beneficial to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, with respect to establishing or continuing its relationship with such Account Debtor; (iv) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell assets pursuant to a Tax Incentive Transaction; (vi) each of the Company and any Restricted Subsidiary may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower Company or any of its Restricted SubsidiariesSubsidiary, including of Intellectual Property; (vivii) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Company may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, or amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower Company (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, consolidation or amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state State thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead BorrowerCompany, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower Company under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation)Subsidiary, (x) any Foreign Canadian Subsidiary or Excluded U.K. Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Company may merge into or consolidate or amalgamate with any other Canadian Subsidiary or U.K. Subsidiary of the Company, (y) any Foreign Subsidiary (other than a Canadian Credit Party or English Credit Party) may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded SubsidiaryCompany, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving or continuing corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (yz) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Company may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving or continuing corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (yvii), so long as (I) no Default and no noor Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto thereto, (II) if any such merger, consolidation or amalgamation is between a Credit Party and a Subsidiary not a Credit Party, then the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation or amalgamation must be a Credit Party; and (IIIII) any security interests and Liens granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in and on the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (viiviii) [reserved]any Subsidiary of the Company may be liquidated or dissolved so long as no Default or Event of Default exists or would result therefrom, and (a) if such Subsidiary is a Restricted Subsidiary, all of the assets of such entity are transferred to another Restricted Subsidiary and (b) if such Subsidiary is a Credit Party, (1) all of the assets of such Subsidiary are transferred to another Credit Party and (2) any security interests and Liens granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in and on the assets of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable, and (c) if such Subsidiary is a Credit Party and the transferee of such assets is not a Credit Party whose assets are included in the calculation of the same portion of the Borrowing Base as the transferor, a new Borrowing Base Certificate shall have been provided; (viiiix) any transfer arising out of the granting or creation of any Permitted Lien; (x) sales, transfers or dispositions of Cash Equivalents in the ordinary course of business; (xi) sale of Accounts pursuant to put options entered into in the ordinary course of business, not for speculative purposes but to complement trade insurance; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may make sales or leases of (A) inventory, inventory and (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market valuesale, in the each case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ixxiii) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell or otherwise dispose of (ix) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out tangible or real property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and or in connection with the sale or other disposition of manufacturing assets, (iiy) tangible or real property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted SubsidiariesSubsidiary or (z) leasehold improvements or leased assets in connection with the termination of the lease; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xixiv) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a any Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xiixv) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property and/or equipment acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xivxvi) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xvxvii) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvixviii) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may abandon or allow to lapse Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, which in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each business judgment of the Lead Borrower and its Company or a Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each Subsidiary are not material to the conduct of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties business of the Lead Borrower or Company and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third partiesSubsidiary taken as a whole; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Hedging Agreements; (xx) each of the Company and any Restricted Subsidiary may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower Company or its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings)Parties, (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, ; provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05.Subsidiary; (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted in Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary Ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth inbetween, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiarybinding arrangements; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers any transfer of property or assets that have been subject to is a casualty to the respective insurer surrender or waiver of such real property as part a contractual, regulatory, or legal right or a settlement, surrender, or release of an insurance settlementa contractual, regulatory, legal or tort claim; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); and (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvixxiv) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Credit Agreement (Resolute Forest Products Inc.)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower will not, Each of the Company and any Restricted Subsidiary will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnershipmerge, joint venture, amalgamate or transaction of merger or consolidationconsolidate, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any Person, except that: (i) any Credit Party may make any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation10.05; (ii) the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell assetsNon-ABL Priority Collateral (and, so long as a new Borrowing Base Certificate is delivered in connection with any Significant Asset Sale, ABL Priority Collateral), so long as (x) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, (y) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower Company or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower Company or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower Company or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (yz) in the case of any single transaction other than an Asset Exchange that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,00025,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower Company or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, cash or Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)consideration) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A1) $25,000,000 75,000,000 and (B2) 2.02.00% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may lease (as lessee) sell upon payment therefor in the ordinary course of business any Accounts in connection with the financing program established by the Account Debtor in effect on the Closing Date or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii))substantially similar program entered into hereafter; (iv) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell assets pursuant to a Tax Incentive Transaction; (vi) each of the Company and any Restricted Subsidiary may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower Company or any of its Restricted SubsidiariesSubsidiary, including of Intellectual Property; (vivii) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Company may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, or amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower Company (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, consolidation or amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state State thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead BorrowerCompany, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower Company under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Canadian Subsidiary or Excluded U.K. Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Company may merge into or consolidate or amalgamate with any other Canadian Subsidiary or U.K. Subsidiary of the Company, (y) any Foreign Subsidiary (other than a Canadian Credit Party or English Credit Party) may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded SubsidiaryCompany, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving or continuing corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (yz) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Company may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving or continuing corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (yvii), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto thereto, (II) if any such merger, consolidation or amalgamation is between a Credit Party and a Subsidiary not a Credit Party, then the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation or amalgamation must be a Credit Party; and (IIIII) any security interests and Liens granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in and on the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (viiviii) [reserved]any Subsidiary of the Company may be liquidated or dissolved so long as no Default or Event of Default exists or would result therefrom, and (a) if such Subsidiary is a Restricted Subsidiary, all of the assets of such entity are transferred to another Restricted Subsidiary and (b) if such Subsidiary is a Credit Party, (1) all of the assets of such Subsidiary are transferred to another Credit Party and (2) any security interests and Liens granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in and on the assets of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable, and (c) if such Subsidiary is a Credit Party and the transferee of such assets is not a Credit Party whose assets are included in the calculation of the same portion of the Borrowing Base as the transferor, a new Borrowing Base Certificate shall have been provided; (viiiix) any transfer arising out of the granting or creation of any Permitted Lien; (x) sales, transfers or dispositions of Cash Equivalents in the ordinary course of business; (xi) sale of Accounts pursuant to put options entered into in the ordinary course of business, not for speculative purposes but to complement trade insurance; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may make sales or leases of (A) inventory, inventory and (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market valuesale, in the each case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ixxiii) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell or otherwise dispose of (ix) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out tangible or real property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and or in connection with the sale or other disposition of manufacturing assets, (iiy) tangible or real property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted SubsidiariesSubsidiary or (z) leasehold improvements or leased assets in connection with the termination of the lease; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xixiv) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a any Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xiixv) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property and/or equipment acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xivxvi) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xvxvii) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvixviii) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may abandon or allow to lapse Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, which in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each business judgment of the Lead Borrower and its Company or a Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each Subsidiary are not material to the conduct of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties business of the Lead Borrower or Company and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third partiesSubsidiary taken as a whole; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Hedging Agreements; (xx) each of the Company and any Restricted Subsidiary may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower Company or its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings)Parties, (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, ; provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05.Subsidiary; (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted in Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary Ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth inbetween, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; binding arrangements; and (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Credit Agreement (Resolute Forest Products Inc.)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, to (x) wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs affairs, (y) consummate any Asset Disposition or (z) directly or indirectly, in a single transaction or series of related transactions, merge or consolidate with or into another Person or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any Personsimilar combination, except that: (i) any Investment Investments by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall be permitted by in accordance with Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation10.05; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assets, so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such any Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 and (B) 2.0% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii10.04(ix)); (iviii) each any Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case without recourse and in the ordinary course of business, overdue accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof consistent with customary industry practice (and not as part of any bulk sale or financing transaction); (viv) each any Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may merge with and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licensesinto, sublicensesor be dissolved or liquidated into, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as (w) in the case of any such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary merger, dissolution or such Excluded Subsidiaryliquidation involving the Borrower, as applicable, the Borrower is the surviving corporation of any such merger, consolidationdissolution or liquidation, dissolution(x) except as provided in preceding clause (w), amalgamation in the cases of any such merger, dissolution or liquidation involving a Subsidiary Guarantor, a Subsidiary Guarantor is the surviving entity of any such merger, dissolution or liquidation, and (y) any Foreign Subsidiary of in all cases, the Lead Borrower may Collateral and Guaranty Requirements shall be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (y), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately fully satisfied after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation dissolution or liquidation); (viiv) [reserved]the Borrower may merge or consolidate with any other Person so long as the Borrower is the surviving entity, no Default or Event of Default then exists or is continuing at such time, the Borrower shall continue to be organized in Luxembourg, the United States or another jurisdiction acceptable to the Administrative Agent, acting on the instruction of the Required Lenders, there is no Change of Control and the Collateral and Guaranty Requirements shall be satisfied after giving effect thereto; (viiivi) any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower may enter into an Internal Charter with an Internal Charterer; and (vii) each of the Lead Borrower and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of consummate any Asset Disposition (Aother than a Collateral Disposition); provided that (1) inventory, (B) goods held such Asset Disposition is for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, (2) the Net Cash Proceeds of such Asset Disposition are applied pursuant to Section 4.03(b), (3) at least 75% of the consideration received from such Asset Disposition shall be in the case form of this clause (Ca) cash (including the assumption or satisfaction by the purchaser of Indebtedness of the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries), (b) Cash Equivalents (c) securities, notes or other obligations which are, within 180 days after receipt thereof, converted into cash or Cash Equivalents, to the extent of less than $10,000,000 cash or Cash Equivalents received in the ordinary course of business; (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business such conversion and (iid) property no longer assets used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x4) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to after giving effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to Asset Disposition, the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after be in pro forma compliance with the Closing Date shall financial covenants contained in Sections 10.07 and 10.08 and (5) no more than one Rig may be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution Asset Disposition during the term of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth in, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03Agreement. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 10.02, such Collateral (other than unless sold to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral of the Borrower) shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Pari Passu Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, to take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Credit Agreement (Pacific Drilling S.A.)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower Holdings will not, and will not permit any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any saleSale-leaseback transactions of any PersonLeaseback Transaction, except that: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assetsassets (including Equity Interests), so long as as, (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower Holdings or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than the greater of $10,000,00044,300,000 and 10% of LTM Consolidated EBITDA (measured at the time of such sale), at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s Holdings’ or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities securities, notes, other obligations or assets received by such Borrower Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower Holdings or any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 88,600,000 and (B) 2.020.0% of LTM Consolidated Total Assets EBITDA (measured at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration Consideration) (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii10.04(iv)); (iv) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases subleases, including of Intellectual Property, to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower Holdings or any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Holdings may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into Holdings or the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not Holdings or the Lead Borrower, as applicable, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of Holdings or the Lead Borrower Borrower, as applicable, under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party Subsidiary Guarantor (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead BorrowerHoldings, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower Holdings may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign other Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation Holdings and (y) any Foreign Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower Holdings may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (yvi), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain not be impaired in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent any material respect as in effect immediately prior to a result of such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]each of Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries may make any disposition of (i) Securitization Assets arising in connection with a Qualified Securitization Transaction or (ii) the Receivables Assets arising in connection with a Receivables Facility, in each case, permitted by Section 10.04; (viii) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventoryinventory in the ordinary course of business, (B) goods held for sale in the ordinary course of business and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than the greater of $10,000,000 44,300,000 and 10.0% of LTM Consolidated EBITDA (measured at the time of such sale or lease, as applicable) in the ordinary course of businessaggregate in any fiscal year, with unused amounts permitted to be carried forward to succeeding fiscal years; (ix) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus surplus, damaged or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (wx) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of Holdings and the Lead Borrower Restricted Subsidiaries and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred sold or otherwise disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Holdings may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions (a) involving real property acquired after the Original Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash and fair market value (as determined by Holdings) or (b) with respect to any other Sale-Leaseback Transactions not described in subclause (xii)(a), having an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the aggregate fair market value not in excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any greater of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any $44,300,000 and 10% of LTM Consolidated EBITDA (measured at the time of such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(dTransaction); (xiii) [reservedintentionally omitted]; (xiv) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower Holdings or any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower Holdings or any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents (or other assets that were Cash Equivalents when the relevant Investment was made) to make payments that are not otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07prohibited by this Agreement; (xxi) each of Holdings or the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings)Parties, (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, ; provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05.; (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary in joint ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth inbetween, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiarybinding arrangements; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and; (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03; (xxvii) dispositions of spare satellites not in orbit on the Amendment and Restatement Effective Date and related satellite capacity, teleports, hubs, modems, antennae, handheld and similar devices and spectrum (including leases of spectrum), services or accounts receivable and sales or dispositions of rights to construct or launch satellites (or satellite payload or components); (xxviii) any swap of owned or leased satellite transponder capacity for other satellite transponder capacity of comparable or greater value or usefulness to the business of Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries as a whole, as determined in good faith by Holdings; (xxix) sales or dispositions of rights to construct or launch satellites (or satellite payload or component); (i) the sale, lease or other transfer of products, equipment, inventory (including, without limitation, satellite capacity, transponders, transponder capacity, teleports, hubs, modems, antennae, handheld and similar devices and spectrum (including leases of spectrum)), services or accounts receivable in the ordinary course of business and (ii) the discount or forgiveness of accounts receivable in the ordinary course of business in connection with the collection or compromise thereof; and (xxxi) the positioning of any satellite in an inclined orbit or the abandonment or other disposition or sale of any satellite (or satellite payload or component) that is in the reasonable good faith judgment of Holdings, no longer economically practicable or reasonable to maintain. To the extent the Required Lenders (or such other percentage of the Lenders as may be required by this Section 10.02) waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereofCredit Party), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, to take any actions deemed appropriate by them in order to effect the foregoing.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Credit Agreement (Iridium Communications Inc.)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower Holdings will not, and will not permit any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any PersonSale‑Leaseback Transaction, except that: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assetsassets (including Equity Interests), so long as as, (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower Holdings or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than the greater of $10,000,00044,300,000 and 10% of LTM Consolidated EBITDA (measured at the time of such sale), at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s Holdings’ or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities securities, notes, other obligations or assets received by such Borrower Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower Holdings or any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 88,600,000 and (B) 2.020.0% of LTM Consolidated Total Assets EBITDA (measured at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration Consideration) (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii10.04(iv)); (iv) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases subleases, including of Intellectual Property, to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower Holdings or any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Holdings may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into Holdings or the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not Holdings or the Lead Borrower, as applicable, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of Holdings or the Lead Borrower Borrower, as applicable, under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party Subsidiary Guarantor (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead BorrowerHoldings, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower Holdings may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign other Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation Holdings and (y) any Foreign Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower Holdings may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (yvi), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain not be impaired in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent any material respect as in effect immediately prior to a result of such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]each of Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries may make any disposition of (i) Securitization Assets arising in connection with a Qualified Securitization Transaction or (ii) the Receivables Assets arising in connection with a Receivables Facility, in each case, permitted by Section 10.04; (viii) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventoryinventory in the ordinary course of business, (B) goods held for sale in the ordinary course of business and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than the greater of $10,000,000 44,300,000 and 10.0% of LTM Consolidated EBITDA (measured at the time of such sale or lease, as applicable) in the ordinary course of businessaggregate in any fiscal year, with unused amounts permitted to be carried forward to succeeding fiscal years; (ix) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus surplus, damaged or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (wx) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of Holdings and the Lead Borrower Restricted Subsidiaries and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred sold or otherwise disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Holdings may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Sale‑Leaseback Transactions (a) involving real property acquired after the Original Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash and fair market value (as determined by Holdings) or (b) with respect to any other Sale‑Leaseback Transactions not described in subclause (xii)(a), having an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the aggregate fair market value not in excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any greater of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any $44,300,000 and 10% of LTM Consolidated EBITDA (measured at the time of such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(dTransaction); (xiii) [reservedintentionally omitted]; (xiv) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower Holdings or any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower Holdings or any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of Holdings and the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents (or other assets that were Cash Equivalents when the relevant Investment was made) to make payments that are not otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07prohibited by this Agreement; (xxi) each of Holdings or the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings)Parties, (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, ; provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05.; (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary in joint ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth inbetween, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiarybinding arrangements; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and; (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03; (xxvii) dispositions of spare satellites not in orbit on the Closing Date and related satellite capacity, teleports, hubs, modems, antennae, handheld and similar devices and spectrum (including leases of spectrum), services or accounts receivable and sales or dispositions of rights to construct or launch satellites (or satellite payload or components); (xxviii) any swap of owned or leased satellite transponder capacity for other satellite transponder capacity of comparable or greater value or usefulness to the business of Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries as a whole, as determined in good faith by Holdings; (xxix) sales or dispositions of rights to construct or launch satellites (or satellite payload or component); (i) the sale, lease or other transfer of products, equipment, inventory (including, without limitation, satellite capacity, transponders, transponder capacity, teleports, hubs, modems, antennae, handheld and similar devices and spectrum (including leases of spectrum)), services or accounts receivable in the ordinary course of business and (ii) the discount or forgiveness of accounts receivable in the ordinary course of business in connection with the collection or compromise thereof; and (xxxi) the positioning of any satellite in an inclined orbit or the abandonment or other disposition or sale of any satellite (or satellite payload or component) that is in the reasonable good faith judgment of Holdings, no longer economically practicable or reasonable to maintain. To the extent the Required Lenders (or such other percentage of the Lenders as may be required by this Section 10.02) waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereofCredit Party), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, to take any actions deemed appropriate by them in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Credit Agreement (Iridium Communications Inc.)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower Parent will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint ventureaffairs, or transaction of merger merge or consolidationconsolidate, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any Person, except that: (i) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in Joint Ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between, the joint venture parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar binding arrangements shall be permitted; (ii) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (iiiii) the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assetsassets (so long as, if any such assets consist of Collateral included in the Borrowing Base, a new pro forma Borrowing Base Certificate is delivered in connection with such sale and if, pursuant to such Borrowing Base Certificate, the Aggregate Exposures exceed the Line Cap, the Borrowers shall, concurrently with such asset sale, prepay Loans or Cash Collateralize Letter of Credit Exposure such that the Aggregate Exposures shall not exceed the Line Cap) so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower Parent or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as reasonably determined by the Lead Borrower Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such BorrowerParent’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower Parent and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released from all obligations and liabilities by all applicable creditors in writingwriting reasonably acceptable to the Agent, (B) any securities received by such Borrower Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower Parent or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 and (B) 2.01.5% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iiiiv) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (ivv) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (vvi) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicensessublicenses (including licenses or sublicenses of Intellectual Property), leases or subleases to other Persons in the ordinary course of business and not materially interfering with the conduct of the business (including the business’ right to use the licensed Intellectual Property) of the Lead Borrower Parent or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vivii) (v) Parent may merge, consolidate or amalgamate in compliance with the last sentence of Section 10.09(b), (w) any Domestic U.S. Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, consolidated or amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, consolidation or amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership the Lead Borrower and the Lead Borrower remains organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state State thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative AgentColumbia) or any other Credit Loan Party (other than Parent or the Lead Borrower) (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, consolidation or amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic U.S. Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership Borrower and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor Loan Party concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidationamalgamation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary of Parent or other Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, consolidated or amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Parent or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an other Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Parent may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, consolidated or amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Loan Party (so long as such Credit Loan Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidationconsolidation or amalgamation) and (z) any Restricted Subsidiary may liquidate or dissolve itself in accordance with applicable law so long as, if such Restricted Subsidiary is a Loan Party, the assets of such Restricted Subsidiary are transferred to another Loan Party (other than Parent) in connection with such liquidation or dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (yvii), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists and no Default or Event of Default would exist immediately after giving effect thereto result therefrom and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors Parties in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]; (viii) each of Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of condemned property as a result of the Lead Borrower exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), transfers of property that are subject to any other involuntary seizure, transfer or confiscation or requisition of use of property, and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; (ix) each of Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventory, (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 7,500,000, in each case, in the ordinary course of business; (ixx) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell sell, transfer, abandon or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus surplus, damaged or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) including property no longer used that is the subject of involuntary loss, damage or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiariesdestruction; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such which assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries, ; provided that (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (yA) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary) Subsidiary from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 3020% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, Acquisition and (zB) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xixii) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.0210.02 (other than pursuant to Section 10.02(xxv)), as a substantially concurrent interim step, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Parent may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xiixiii) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving ships, trucks, containers or other similar Equipment or real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Eventproceedings; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights or allow Intellectual Property rights to lapse, in each case, in the ordinary course of business, business and which in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgmentdetermination of Parent or a Restricted Subsidiary are not material to the conduct of the business of Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of of, or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreementsunwind, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services AgreementsSwap Contracts; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower Parent or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower Parent or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make Dividends permitted under Section 10.03 and may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and Section 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower Parent or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, transfers, dispositions or contributions of property shall be permitted (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings)Loan Parties, (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Loan Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Loan Parties to the Credit Loan Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Loan Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Loan Party, ; provided with respect to in the case of this clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, transfer, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05.Subsidiary; (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) inany sale, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth in, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” transfer or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a sale, transfer or other disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and10.02 (other than pursuant to Section 10.02(xxv)) shall be permitted; (xxvixxiv) dispositions permitted by Section 10.0310.03 shall be permitted; (xxv) the use or transfer of cash or Cash Equivalents in the ordinary course of business and in a manner that is not prohibited by the terms of any Loan Document shall be permitted, provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, this clause (xxv) shall not permit (A) any winding up, liquidation or dissolution, or any merger or consolidation or sale lease-back transaction or (B) any conveyance, sale, lease or other disposition the subject matter of which is otherwise regulated by another clause of this Section 10.02; (xxvi) the granting, creation, incurrence, assumption or existence of any Permitted Lien shall be permitted; (xxvii) the making of Investments permitted under Section 10.05 shall be permitted; (xxviii) sales, transfers and other dispositions by Persons that are not Significant Parties shall be permitted, provided such sales, transfers and other dispositions are for fair market value on an arm’s length basis; (xxix) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the cancellation of intercompany Indebtedness owing (A) between Loan Parties, (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties and (C) by Loan Parties to Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties shall be permitted; and (xxx) each of the dispositions in Schedule 10.02 of the Disclosure Letter shall be permitted. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower Parent or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Credit Agreement (Chiquita Brands International Inc)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any Person, except that: (i) [reserved]; (ii) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (iiiii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assetsassets comprising Term Priority Collateral (and, so long as a new Borrowing Base Certificate is delivered in connection with such sale, any Revolver Priority Collateral) so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,0002,500,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 and (B) 2.03.00% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iiiiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (ivv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may (x) sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transactiontransaction or (y) sell or discount, at the request of a customer pursuant to an Eligible Customer-Sponsored Program, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction for the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vivii) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state State thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party Subsidiary Guarantor (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (yvii), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (viiviii) [reserved]; (viiiix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventory, (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 7,500,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ixx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as which assets (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,00010,000,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xixii) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xiixiii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when ; (xiv) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after may consummate the Transaction and make any dispositions on the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to consummate the extent) required by Section 5.02(d)Transaction; (xiii) [reserved]; (xivxv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xvxvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvixvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, which in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgmentdetermination of the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary are not material to the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole; (xviixviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services AgreementsSwap Contracts; (xviiixix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xixxx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xxxxi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxixxii) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxiixxiii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, ; provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05.Subsidiary; (xxiiixxiv) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted in Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary Ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth inbetween, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiarybinding arrangements; (xxivxxv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxvxxvi) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvixxvii) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Credit Agreement (Bway Intermediate Company, Inc.)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any Person, except that: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assets, so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 and (B) 2.0% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (iv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (y), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]; (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of of (A) inventory, (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth in, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: First Lien Term Loan Credit Agreement (PAE Inc)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any saleSale-leaseback transactions of any PersonLeaseback Transaction, except that: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 (including those that may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation) shall be permitted; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assetsassets (including Equity Interests), so long as as, (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than the greater of $10,000,00090,000,000 and 7.5% of Consolidated EBITDA of Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for the most recently ended Test Period (measured at the time of such sale), at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at or about the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (or, if incurred or accrued subsequent to the date of such balance sheet, such liabilities that would have been reflected on Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s balance sheet (or in the footnotes thereto) (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities securities, notes, other obligations or assets received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted convertible by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, (C) consideration consisting of Indebtedness of Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary that is not Subordinated Indebtedness received from such transferee, (D) accounts receivable of a business retained by Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, following the sale of such business; provided that such accounts receivable (1) are not past due more than 90 days and (C2) do not have a payment date greater than 120 days from the date of the invoices creating such accounts receivable and (E) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 360,000,000 and (B) 2.030% of Consolidated Total Assets EBITDA of Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for the most recently ended Test Period (measured at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration Consideration) (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (iv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; ; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as (1) the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, (2) if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, (A) such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative AgentAgent and (B) the Administrative Agent shall have received at least five (5) Business Days’ prior written notice (or such shorter period as the Administrative Agent may agree in its reasonable discretion) of the proposed transaction and Borrower shall promptly and in any event at least three (3) Business Days’ prior to the consummation of the transaction provide all information any Lender or the Administrative Agent may reasonably request to satisfy its “know your customer” and other similar requirements necessary for such Person to comply with Requirements of Law with respect to the proposed successor) or any other Credit Party Subsidiary Guarantor (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign other Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (yvi), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain not be impaired in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent any material respect as in effect immediately prior to a result of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]; (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventory, (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth in, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Term Loan Credit Agreement (Ingram Micro Holding Corp)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower will not, Each of the Company and any Restricted Subsidiary will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnershipmerge, joint venture, amalgamate or transaction of merger or consolidationconsolidate, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any Person, except that: (i) any member of the Combined Group may make any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation10.05; (ii) Subject to Section 2.09(b)(ii), the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell assets, so long as (x) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, (y) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower Company or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower Company or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower Company or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (yz) in the case of any single transaction (other than an Asset Exchange) that involves (I) any of the Collateral (other than Collateral transferred in an Excluded Asset Disposition) or (II) assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,00025,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower Company or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, cash or Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)consideration) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (yz)(II), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writingdisposition, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (yz)(II) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A1) $25,000,000 75,000,000 and (B2) 2.02.00% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may lease sell upon payment therefor in the ordinary course of business any Accounts in connection with any reverse factoring program established by an Account Debtor (x) as lesseein effect on the Closing Date or (y) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except thereafter to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii))the Company in good faith believes that such program is in the beneficial interest of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, with respect to establishing or continuing its relationship with such Account Debtor; (iv) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of CHAR1\0000000x0 business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell assets pursuant to a Tax Incentive Transaction; (vi) each of the Company and any Restricted Subsidiary may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower Company or any of its Restricted SubsidiariesSubsidiary, including of Intellectual Property; (vivii) (wx) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Company may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, or amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower Company (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, consolidation or amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state State thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead BorrowerCompany, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower Company under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (xy) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded SubsidiaryCompany, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving or continuing corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (yz) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Company may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving or continuing corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (yvii), so long as (I) no Default and no or Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto thereto, (II) if any such merger, consolidation or amalgamation is between a Credit Party and a Subsidiary not a Credit Party, then the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation or amalgamation must be a Credit Party; and (IIIII) any security interests and Liens granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in and on the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (viiviii) [reserved]any Subsidiary of the Company may be liquidated or dissolved so long as no Event of Default exists or would result therefrom, and (a) if such Subsidiary is a Restricted Subsidiary, all of the assets of such entity are transferred to another Restricted Subsidiary and (b) if such Subsidiary is a Credit Party, (1) all of the assets of such Subsidiary are transferred to another Credit Party and (2) any security interests and Liens granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in and on the assets of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable; (viiiix) any transfer arising out of the granting or creation of any Permitted Lien; (x) sales, transfers or dispositions of Cash Equivalents in the ordinary course of business; CHAR1\0000000x0 (xi) sale of accounts pursuant to put options entered into in the ordinary course of business, not for speculative purposes but to complement trade insurance; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may make sales or leases of (A) inventory, inventory and (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market valuesale, in the each case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ixxiii) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell or otherwise dispose of (ix) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out tangible or real property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and or in connection with the sale or other disposition of manufacturing assets, (iiy) tangible or real property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted SubsidiariesSubsidiary or (z) leasehold improvements or leased assets in connection with the termination of the lease; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xixiv) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a any Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xiixv) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may effect affect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property and/or equipment acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xivxvi) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xvxvii) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvixviii) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may abandon or allow to lapse Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, which in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each business judgment of the Lead Borrower and its Company or a Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each Subsidiary are not material to the conduct of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties business of the Lead Borrower or Company and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third partiesSubsidiary taken as a whole; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower Company and its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Hedging Agreements; (xx) each of the Company and any Restricted Subsidiary may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower Company or its any Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (ix) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (iiy) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings)members of the Combined Group, (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Partiesmembers of the Combined Group), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, member of the Combined Group; provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property CHAR1\0000000x0 made for less than fair market value and value, (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject and (3) no Collateral may be sold, disposed of or contributed by a Credit Party to Section 10.05.a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party pursuant to this clause (xxii) other than pursuant to an Excluded Asset Disposition; (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted in Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary Ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth inbetween, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiarybinding arrangements; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers any transfer of property or assets that have been subject to is a casualty to the respective insurer surrender or waiver of such real property as part a contractual, regulatory, or legal right or a settlement, surrender, or release of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between a contractual, regulatory, legal or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02tort claim; and (xxvixxv) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Credit Agreement (Resolute Forest Products Inc.)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower Parent will not, and nor will not it permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up: (a) Dissolve, liquidate or dissolve wind up its affairs or their affairs, except (i) in connection with a disposition of assets permitted by the terms of subsection (c) below or (ii) the liquidation or dissolution of a Subsidiary if the Parent determines in good faith that such liquidation or dissolution is in the best interests of the Parent and its Subsidiaries and is not materially disadvantageous to the Lenders; (b) enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any Person, except that: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assets, so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes that, so long as no Default has occurred and is continuing or would be directly or indirectly caused as a result thereof, (i) the Parent or the Borrower may merge or consolidate with any of this clause (y)the Borrower, the following shall be deemed to be cash: Parent or its Subsidiaries, as applicable, provided that the Borrower or the Parent is the surviving entity, (Aii) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in Subsidiary of the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary Parent (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the ObligationsBorrower) that are assumed by the transferee may merge or consolidate with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted other Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash Parent, provided that if either Subsidiary is a Guarantor the surviving entity shall be or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, become a Guarantor and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 and (B) 2.0% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (iv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Parent (other than the Borrower) may be mergedmerge or consolidate with another Person, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person aggregate book value of the assets of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is merging Subsidiary does not constitute a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws substantial part of the United States of AmericaParent’s property; (c) sell, any state thereof or the District of Columbia andlease, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (y), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]; (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventory, (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell transfer or otherwise dispose of its property to the extent such would constitute a substantial part of the Parent’s Property (including without limitation pursuant to any sale and leaseback transaction) other than (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus the sale or worn out property, in each case, lease of inventory in the ordinary course of business and for fair consideration, (ii) property the sale or disposition of machinery and equipment no longer used or useful in the conduct of such Person’s business, (iii) the business sale of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to accounts in connection with a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted AcquisitionReceivables Financing, and (ziv) such assets are soldthe sale, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a salelease, transfer or other disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary to one or more of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower Parent or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any subsidiaries; or (d) unless such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when action is approved by the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds board of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness directors or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds applicable governing body of such sale Person and so long as no Default has occurred and is continuing or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth in, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.would 70

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Samples: Credit Agreement (Schneider National, Inc.)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any saleSale-leaseback transactions of any PersonLeaseback Transaction, except that: : (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; ; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assetsassets (including Equity Interests), so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than the greater of $10,000,00030,000,000 and 6.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for the most recently ended Test Period, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead 89 Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities securities, notes, other obligations or assets received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted convertible by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, (C) consideration consisting of Indebtedness of the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary that is not Subordinated Indebtedness received from such transferee, (D) accounts receivable of a business retained by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, following the sale of such business; provided that such accounts receivable (1) are not past due more than 90 days and (C2) do not have a payment date greater than 120 days from the date of the invoices creating such accounts receivable and (E) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A1) $25,000,000 150,000,000 and (B2) 2.030.0% of Consolidated Total Assets EBITDA of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for the most recently ended Test Period (measured at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration Consideration) (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); ; (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); ; (iv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; ; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, including of Intellectual Property; ; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party Subsidiary Guarantor (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign other Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Excluded Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided 90 that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (yvi), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain not be impaired in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent any material respect as in effect immediately prior to a result of such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); ; (vii) [reserved]; ; (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventoryinventory in the ordinary course of business, (B) goods held for sale in the ordinary course of business and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than the greater of $10,000,000 in 25,000,000 and 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the ordinary course Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for the most recently ended Test Period (measured at the time of business; such sale or lease, as applicable); (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; ; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (wx) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (xy) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of the greater of (A) $7,500,000, 50,000,000 and (yB) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 3010.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the aggregate consideration paid Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such Permitted Acquisitionthe most recently ended Test Period (measured at the time of disposition thereof), and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; ; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; ; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions (a) involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received and fair market value (as determined by the Lead Borrower Borrower) or (b) with respect to any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such other Sale-Leaseback Transaction from Transactions not described in subclause (xii)(a), having an aggregate fair market value not in excess of the greater of $25,000,000 and after such time as when 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds for the most recently ended Test Period (measured at the time of at least $20,000,000 from all such Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(dTransaction); ; (xiii) [reserved]; ; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; ; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; ; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon abandon, allow to lapse or expire or otherwise become invalid Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; ; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth in, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.91

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Samples: Term Loan Credit Agreement (Vertiv Holdings Co)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, to (x) wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs affairs, (y) consummate any Asset Disposition or (z) directly or indirectly, in a single transaction or series of related transactions, merge or consolidate with or into another Person or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any Personsimilar combination, except that: (i) any Investment Investments by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall be permitted by in accordance with Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation10.05; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assets, so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such any Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 and (B) 2.0% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii10.04(ix)); (iviii) each any Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case without recourse and in the ordinary course of business, overdue accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof consistent with customary industry practice (and not as part of any bulk sale or financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (y), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (viiiv) [reserved]; (viii) each any Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may merge with and its into, or be dissolved or liquidated into, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventorySubsidiary, (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) in the case of any such assets are not used merger, dissolution or useful to liquidation involving the core Borrower, the Borrower is the surviving corporation of any such merger, dissolution or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiariesliquidation, (x) such assets have a fair market value not except as provided in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with preceding clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(dw); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) cases of any such salemerger, disposition dissolution or contribution liquidation involving a Subsidiary Guarantor, the other Restricted Subsidiary involved in such merger, dissolution or liquidation is not an Other Facilities Obligor and a Subsidiary Guarantor is the surviving entity of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such salemerger, disposition dissolution or contribution of propertyliquidation, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth in, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Credit Agreement (Pacific Drilling S.A.)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs affairs, or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidationconsolidation or sell or otherwise dispose of any of its property or assets (but excluding any sale or disposition of obsolete or excess furniture, fixtures or equipment or excess land in the ordinary course of business), or convey, sellpurchase, lease or otherwise dispose acquire (in one transaction or a series of related transactions) all or any part of its the property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions assets of any Personperson (excluding any purchases, leases or other acquisitions of property or assets in, and for use in, the ordinary course of business) or agree to do any of the foregoing at any future time, except thatthat the following shall be permitted: (a) capital expenditures by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (b) the investments permitted pursuant to section 8.5; (c) if no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, (i) the merger or consolidation of any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a mergerSubsidiary Guarantor with or into the Borrower or another Subsidiary Guarantor or the liquidation or dissolution of any Subsidiary (contemporaneously with the retirement or other discharge of all IRB Debt and Priority Debt of such Subsidiary, consolidation if any) or amalgamation; (ii) the Lead transfer or other disposition of any property by the Borrower to any Subsidiary Guarantor or by any Subsidiary Guarantor to the Borrower or any other Subsidiary Guarantor, provided that all Liens granted pursuant to the Security Documents on any property or assets involved in any of the foregoing transactions shall remain in full force and effect (with the same priority as they would have if such transfer pursuant to this clause (ii) had not occurred), either as a result of any such transfer being made subject to such Liens or as a result of the surviving or transferee entity executing and delivering new Security Documents, in each case to the satisfaction of the Administrative Agent; (d) if no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower or any Subsidiary may make Permitted Acquisitions, provided that at least 10 days prior to the date of such acquisition, the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent an officer's certificate executed on behalf of the Borrower by an Authorized Officer of the Borrower, which certificate shall (i) contain the date such Permitted Acquisition is scheduled to be consummated, (ii) contain the estimated purchase price of such Permitted Acquisition, (iii) contain a description of the property and/or assets acquired in connection with such Permitted Acquisition, (iv) demonstrate that at the time of making any such Permitted Acquisition the covenants contained in sections 8.10, 8.11, 8.12 and 8.13 shall be complied with on a pro forma basis as if the properties and/or assets so acquired had been owned by the Borrower, and the Indebtedness assumed and/or incurred to acquire and/or finance same has been outstanding, for the 12 month period immediately preceding such acquisition (without giving effect to any credit for unobtained or unrealized gains in connection with such Permitted Acquisition, but taking into account such adjustments to the overhead of such properties and assets as may reasonably determined and specified by the Borrower to reflect the overhead generally applicable to similar properties and assets owned by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, including provision for a management fee of 5%, as and to the extent the Administrative Agent determines such adjustments to be reasonable and appropriate under the particular circumstances), (v) to the extent applicable, confirms that the Borrower has obtained an environmental assessment which demonstrate that the representations and warranties of the Borrower contained in this Agreement (including those set forth in section 6.15) shall be true and correct after giving effect to such Permitted Acquisition, (vi) confirms that the property acquired pursuant to such Permitted Acquisition (or owned by the partnership or other entity in which interests have been acquired or to which loans and/or advances have been made pursuant to such Permitted Acquisition) is to be managed by the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor, and (vii) attach thereto a true and correct copy of the then proposed purchase agreement or similar agreement, partnership agreement and/or management contract entered into in connection with such Permitted Acquisition; (e) if no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries may (i) sell any property, land or building (including any related receivables or other intangible assets), so long as or (xii) each such sale is on terms sell the entire capital stock (or other equity interests) and conditions not less favorable to Indebtedness of any Subsidiary owned by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted any other Subsidiary, or (iii) permit any Subsidiary as would reasonably to be obtained by the Lead Borrower merged or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction consolidated with a Person person which is not an Affiliate, or (iv) consummate any other than an Affiliate and Asset Sale; provided that (A) the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least consideration for such transaction represents fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as Board of Directors of the case may beBorrower), (yB) such consideration consists of at least 90% cash or Cash Equivalents, or in the case of an exchange of properties the property acquired represents reasonably equivalent value (or to the extent that such value is less than the value of the property transferred, the difference is payable in cash or Cash Equivalents), (C) at least 15 days prior to the date of any such transaction, the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent an officer's certificate executed on behalf of the Borrower by an Authorized Officer of the Borrower, which certificate shall contain a description of the proposed transaction, the date such transaction is scheduled to be consummated, the estimated purchase price or other consideration for such transaction, and which shall include a certified copy of the draft or definitive documentation pertaining thereto, (D) any such assets, capital stock (or other equity interests) and Indebtedness or Subsidiary shall not represent more than 5% of the Consolidated Net Worth of the Borrower as at the end of its most recently completed fiscal quarter for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to section 7.1(a) or (b), and shall not have contributed more than 5% of EBITDA of the Borrower for the four consecutive fiscal quarters ended most recently prior thereto for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to section 7.1(a) or (b), (E) all such assets, capital stock (or other equity interests) and Indebtedness or Subsidiary so disposed of after the Closing Date shall not represent more than 15% of the Consolidated Net Worth of the Borrower as at the end of its most recently completed fiscal quarter prior to the last such transaction for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to section 7.1(a) or (b); (f) the Borrower may complete any transaction otherwise permitted by the preceding clause (e), notwithstanding the limitations contained in clauses (D) and (E) thereof, if (A) as to any such transaction where the Net Cash Proceeds are not in excess of $5,000,000, within six months following any such transaction the Borrower purchases or enters into a binding commitment to purchase property, land or buildings of at least equivalent value, and if any such property, land or buildings of at least equivalent value are not so purchased within six months, the Borrower will take such actions in respect thereof as are contemplated by clauses (C) or (D) below, or (B) contemporaneously with the consummation of such transaction, the Borrower purchases property, land or buildings of at least equivalent value which are subjected to the Lien of Additional Security Documents in accordance with the provisions hereof, or (C) the Borrower prepays the Loans in an aggregate amount (1) equal to the Net Cash Proceeds of such transaction, in the case of any such property which is part of the Development Property Pool, or (2) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,000, at least 75% property which is part of the consideration received by Mature Property Pool, the Lead Borrower amount determined for such property on the basis of the multiple (i.e. 5, 4.75 or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be 4) reflected in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, maximum ratio contained in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)section 8.12(a) and is paid applicable at the time of the closing of such sale; provided(even if section 8.12(a) shall no longer be in effect, however, that for purposes of this clause (yhaving been superseded by section 8.12(b), times the following shall be deemed to be cash: Cash Flow from Operations for such property, or (AD) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated pays to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect Administrative Agent an amount in cash and/or Cash Equivalents equal to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower such amount and the Restricted Subsidiaries Administrative Agent shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by hold such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 and (B) 2.0% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied payment as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (iv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all security for the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents hereunder pursuant to an assumption a cash collateral agreement to be entered into in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) Agent and the Borrower (which shall permit certain investments in Cash Equivalents satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower until the proceeds are applied to the secured obligations or earlier released by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower from time to time in amounts equal to the aggregate MPP Revolving Loans which the Borrower could obtain at any other Credit Party (so long as such time, based upon the surviving Person receipt by the Administrative Agent of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary certificates pursuant to section 7.1(e) and other evidence as it may require to establish the amount of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may MPP Revolving Loans which could be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that obtained at any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to time in compliance with the MPP Revolving Loan Sublimit and other applicable provisions of this clause (y), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidationAgreement); (viig) [reserved];the Reorganization; and (viiih) each the Borrower or any of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or enter into leases of (A) inventory, (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial property or assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, not constituting Permitted Acquisitions in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful not otherwise in the conduct violation of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (Agreement and to the extent) required extent not prohibited by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05section 8. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth in, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Credit Agreement (Vencor Inc)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any Person, except that: (i) [reserved]; (ii) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (iiiii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assets, so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,0002,500,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Lead Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 and (B) 2.03.00% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iiiiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (ivv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may (x) sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transactiontransaction or (y) sell or discount, at the request of a customer pursuant to an Eligible Customer-Sponsored Program, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction for the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vivii) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state State thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party Subsidiary Guarantor (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (yvii), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (viiviii) [reserved]; (viiiix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventory, (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 7,500,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ixx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as which assets (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,00010,000,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xixii) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xiixiii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Sale Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Sale Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Sale Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 25,000,000 from all Sale-Sale Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiiixiv) [reserved]the Lead Borrower and its Subsidiaries may consummate the Transaction and make any dispositions on the Closing Date to consummate the Transaction; (xivxv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xvxvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvixvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, which in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgmentdetermination of the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary are not material to the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole; (xviixviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviiixix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xixxx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xxxxi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxixxii) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxiixxiii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, ; provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05.Subsidiary; (xxiiixxiv) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted in Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary Ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth inbetween, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiarybinding arrangements; (xxivxxv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxvxxvi) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and and (xxvixxvii) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Term Loan Credit Agreement (Bway Intermediate Company, Inc.)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower Holdings will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assetsaffairs, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions transaction of any Person, except that: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, merger or consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assets, so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), (y) in the case otherwise dispose of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset property or assets (but excluding any sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater or disposition of (A) $25,000,000 and (B) 2.0% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) obsolete or license (as licensee) real excess FF&E or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (iv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case excess land in the ordinary course of business), accounts receivable arising or purchase, lease or otherwise acquire (in one transaction or a series of related transactions) all or any part of the property or assets of any Person (excluding any purchases, leases or other acquisitions of property or assets in, and for use in, the ordinary course of business) or agree to do any of the foregoing at any future time, except that the following shall be permitted: (a) capital expenditures by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (b) the investments permitted pursuant to Section 8.05; (i) the merger or consolidation of any Subsidiary Guarantor (other than Capital Corp) with or into the Borrower or another Subsidiary Guarantor (other than Capital Corp) or the liquidation or dissolution of any Subsidiary that is not a Material Subsidiary or a Specified Subsidiary or (ii) the transfer or other disposition of any property (other than the Capital Note) by the Borrower to any Subsidiary Guarantor or by any Subsidiary Guarantor to the Borrower or any other Subsidiary Guarantor, provided that all Liens granted pursuant to the Security Documents on any property or assets involved in any of the foregoing transactions shall remain in full force and effect (with the same priority as they would have if such transfer pursuant to this clause (ii) had not occurred), either as a result of any such transfer being made subject to such Liens or as a result of the surviving or transferee entity executing and delivering new Security Documents, in each case to the satisfaction of the Administrative Agent; (d) the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor (other than Capital Corp) (or to the extent limited to one Permitted Acquisition, any NRD Borrower) may make Permitted Acquisitions provided that at least 15 days prior to the date of such acquisition, the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent an officer's certificate executed by an authorized officer of the Borrower, which certificate shall (i) contain the date such Permitted Acquisition is scheduled to be consummated, (ii) contained the estimated purchase price of such Permitted Acquisition, (iii) contain a description of the property and/or assets acquired in connection with such Permitted Acquisition (including 12 months prior financial data relating thereto), (iv) demonstrate that at the time of making any such Permitted Acquisition the covenants contained in Sections 8.10, 8.11, 8.12, 8.13 and 8.14 shall be complied with on a PRO FORMA basis as if the properties and/or assets so acquired had been owned by the Borrower, and the Indebtedness assumed and/or incurred to acquire and/or finance same has been outstanding, for the 12 month period immediately preceding such acquisition (without giving effect to any credit for unobtained or unrealized gains in connection with such Permitted Acquisition), (v) to the extent applicable, confirms that the Borrower has performed physical inspections, including, without limitation, Phase I environmental assessments (a copy of which shall be delivered to the Administrative Agent with such certificate), which demonstrate that the representations and warranties of the Borrower contained in this Agreement (including those set forth in Section 6.15) shall be true and correct after giving effect to such Permitted Acquisition, (vi) except in the case of a Permitted Acquisition of a Non-Managed Hotel, confirms that the hotel property acquired pursuant to such Permitted Acquisition (or owned by the partnership in which interests have been acquired or to which loans and/or advances have been made pursuant to such Permitted Acquisition) is to be managed by the Borrower and (vii) attach thereto a true and correct copy of the then proposed purchase agreement or similar agreement, partnership agreement, lease and/or management contract entered into in connection with such Permitted Acquisition; (e) the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries may sell any hotel property, land or building and/or any capital stock and/or equity interests of any Person that owns such hotel property, land or building, provided that after giving effect to such sale the covenants contained in Sections 8.10, 8.11, 8.12, 8.13 and 8.14 shall be complied with on a PRO FORMA basis as if such hotel property, land or building so sold had not been owned by the Borrower and/or any of its Subsidiaries for the 12- month period immediately preceding such sale; (f) the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (other than an NRL Subsidiary) may enter into leases of property or assets not constituting Permitted Acquisitions in the ordinary course of businessbusiness not otherwise in violation of this Agreement and to the extent not prohibited by Section 8.06(b); (g) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (other than any Specified Subsidiary) may purchase or otherwise acquire any property or assets of any Person (other than pursuant to Permitted Acquisitions), PROVIDED that (x) such purchases or acquisitions are made with funds other than the proceeds of Loans and Non-Recourse Debt, (y) no Default or Event of Default exists at the time thereof or after giving effect thereto and (z) after giving effect thereto, Section 8.01 is complied with; (h) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may sell or discount accounts receivable in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practices, but only in connection with the collection or compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licensesthereof, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person aggregate outstanding face amount of accounts receivable sold or discounted at any time does not exceed $5,000,000; and (i) any NRL Subsidiary may enter into leases of hotel properties in connection with obtaining, or as a method of effectively obtaining, the benefits of (and entered in lieu of) a Management Contract relating to the hotel properties which are the subject of such mergerleases, consolidationPROVIDED that any such lease shall not be guaranteed (or otherwise supported) directly or indirectly by Holdings, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of AmericaBorrower, any state thereof Subsidiary Guarantor or any other Subsidiary (other than the District NRL Subsidiary entering into same) except that (x) the documentation governing any such lease may contain provisions relating to customary indemnities from the Borrower or a Subsidiary Guarantor for fraud, use of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form proceeds and substance environmental matters or as are otherwise reasonably satisfactory acceptable to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation Agent and (y) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation incur guaranties and other Contingent Obligations in respect of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (y), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation); (vii) [reserved]; (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventory, (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth in, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.038.04(f)(A)(z). To the extent the Required Lenders Banks (or all of the Banks as shall be required by Section 12.12) waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 8.02 with respect to the sale sale, transfer or other disposition of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold sold, transferred or disposed of as permitted by this Section 10.02 8.02, (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), i) such Collateral shall be sold sold, transferred or disposed of free and clear of the Liens created by the respective Security DocumentsDocument; (ii) if such Collateral includes all of the capital stock of a Subsidiary Guarantor, such capital stock shall be released from the Pledge Agreement and such Subsidiary shall be released from the Subsidiary Guaranty; and (iii) the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, to take any actions deemed appropriate by them in order to effect effectuate the foregoing.

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Samples: Credit Agreement (Interstate Hotels Co)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnership, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions of any Person, except that: (i) any Investment permitted by Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assets, assets so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), ) and (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 and (B) 2.0% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) ); provided that if any such disposition involves assets that accounted for more than 10% of the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and Borrowing Base at the time of such sale, the Borrowers shall deliver an updated Borrowing Base Certificate to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d)Administrative Agent recalculating the Borrowing Base after giving effect to such disposition in connection with such disposition; (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii)); (iv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded Subsidiary, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or such Excluded Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation and (y) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause (y), so long as (I) no Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or liquidation), and any Guaranties shall continue in full force and effect; (vii) [reserved]; (viii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales or leases of (A) inventory, (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and (ii) property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (x) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition so long as (w) such assets are not used or useful to the core or principal business of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (x) such assets have a fair market value not in excess of $7,500,000, (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) Subsidiary from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services AgreementsSwap Contracts; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties), (C) by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) or (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) of any such sale, disposition or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05.; (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth in, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

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Samples: Revolving Credit Agreement (PAE Inc)

Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc. The Lead Borrower Parent will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, to (x) wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any partnershipaffairs, joint venture, or transaction of merger or consolidation, or (y) convey, sell, lease lease, charter or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property the Collateral or assets(z) convey, sell, lease, charter or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions substantial part of, the assets (other than Margin Stock) (i.e. taken as a whole) of any Personthe Parent and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, except that: (i) any Investment Investments by the Parent and its Subsidiaries shall be permitted by in accordance with Section 10.05 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation10.05; (ii) the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell assets, so long as (x) each such sale is on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Lead Borrower or such Restricted any Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and the Lead Borrower or the respective Restricted Subsidiary receives at least fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), (y) in the case of any single transaction that involves assets or Equity Interests having a fair market value of more than $10,000,000, at least 75% of the consideration received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or, subject to the proviso below, Designated Non-cash Consideration (taking into account the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents, the principal amount of any promissory notes and the fair market value, as determined by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in good faith, of any other consideration (including Designated Non-cash Consideration)) and is paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (y), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on such Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable disposition and for which the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in the conversion) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable asset sale, and (C) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such asset sale having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (y) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (A) $25,000,000 and (B) 2.0% of Consolidated Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (iii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries Parent may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(iii10.04(vii)); provided that, the lease of any Rig will be subject to the terms set forth in clause (vii) below; (iviii) each any Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries Parent may sell or discount, in each case without recourse and in the ordinary course of business, overdue accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof consistent with customary industry practice (and not as part of any bulk sale or financing transaction); (iv) any Credit Party may sell or otherwise transfer all or any part of the Collateral to any other Credit Party, in each case so long as the Collateral and Guaranty Requirements shall be fully satisfied after giving effect thereto; (v) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including of Intellectual Property; (vi) (w) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Parent (other than the Borrower) may merge with and into, or be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated dissolved or liquidated with or into into, the Lead Borrower (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized or existing under the laws of the United States of AmericaBorrower, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving Person is not the Lead Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations of the Lead Borrower under the Credit Documents pursuant to an assumption agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) Subsidiary Guarantor or any other Credit Party (so long as the surviving Person of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation is a Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership and is or becomes a Subsidiary Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such merger, consolidation or liquidation), (x) any Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is an Excluded SubsidiaryParent, so long as (w) in the case of any such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary merger, dissolution or such Excluded Subsidiaryliquidation involving the Borrower, as applicable, the Borrower is the surviving corporation of any such merger, consolidationdissolution or liquidation, dissolution(x) except as provided in preceding clause (w), amalgamation in the cases of any such merger, dissolution or liquidation and (y) any Foreign involving a Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be mergedGuarantor, consolidated, dissolved, amalgamated or liquidated with or into any Credit Party (so long as such Credit Party a Subsidiary Guarantor is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation); provided that any such merger, consolidationdissolution or liquidation, dissolution, amalgamation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this clause and (y)) in all cases, so long as (I) no Default the Collateral and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately Guaranty Requirements shall be fully satisfied after giving effect thereto and (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation dissolution or liquidation); (viivi) [reserved]the Parent may (x) merge or consolidate with any other Person so long as the Parent is the surviving entity, no Default or Event of Default then exists or is continuing at such time, the Parent shall continue to be organized in the United States or another jurisdiction acceptable to the Administrative Agent, there is no Change of Control and the Collateral and Guaranty Requirements shall be satisfied after giving effect thereto and (y) merge or consolidate with a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Parent so long as there is no Change of Control; (viiivii) each any Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Parent may enter into demise, bareboat, time, voyage and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make sales other charter or lease arrangements pursuant to which any such Subsidiary charters or leases of (A) inventory, (B) goods held for sale and (C) immaterial assets with out a fair market value, in the case of this clause (C), of less than $10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business; (ix) each Rig to another Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell Parent or otherwise dispose of (i) outdated, obsolete, surplus or worn out propertyto a third Person, in each case, case so long as (x) such arrangements are entered into in the ordinary course of business and consistent with past practices, (iiy) property no longer used or useful in such arrangements do not materially impair the conduct value of the business Rig or Rigs subject to such arrangements and (z) such arrangements involving any Collateral Rigs do not impair the security interest of the Lead Borrower Collateral Agent in such Collateral Rigs (or the ability of the Collateral Agent to foreclose on each Collateral Rig or exercise its remedies in respect thereof, in each case free of such arrangements) and such arrangements are subject in all respects to the Collateral Agent’s Lien on such Collateral Rigs; (viii) any Subsidiary of the Parent that is not a Credit Party may sell or otherwise transfer all or any part of its Restricted Subsidiariesbusiness, properties or assets (other than a Rig) to any Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Parent; (ix) so long as no Default or Event of Default then exists or would result therefrom, Inactive Subsidiaries of the Parent may be liquidated or dissolved from time to time, so long as (x) the Parent determines that such liquidation is not adverse to the interests of the Lenders and (y) the security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors pursuant to the Security Documents shall remain in full force and effect (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such dissolution or liquidation); (x) each of the Lead Borrower Parent and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries may transfer any Rig from the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries, to the Parent or a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Parent, provided that in the case of Collateral Rigs, the Collateral and Guaranty Requirements shall be fully satisfied after giving effect thereto; and (xi) any Redomestication shall be permitted; and (xii) any Subsidiary may sell or otherwise dispose of assets acquired pursuant to any Collateral Rig and the Collateral associated with such Collateral Rig (or all of the Capital Stock of any Material Subsidiary owned by the Parent or a Permitted Acquisition so long as Subsidiary of the Parent), provided that: (wA) such assets are sale or other disposition is made at not used or useful to the core or principal business less than fair market value (measured as of the Lead Borrower date of the definitive agreement with respect to such disposition and which shall be the value that would be paid by a willing buyer to an unaffiliated willing seller in a transaction not involving distress or necessity of either party, reasonably determined in good faith by the board of directors of the Parent (or any committee thereof duly authorized to act on its Restricted Subsidiariesbehalf) in the case of amounts greater than or equal to $50,000,000 and otherwise, by any Authorized Representative of the Parent), (B) (x) such assets have a fair market value not the Total Commitment shall be reduced as provided in excess of $7,500,000, Section 4.03 and (y) the aggregate proceeds (determined in a manner consistent with clause (x) above) received by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) from all such sales, transfers or dispositions relating to a given Permitted Acquisition shall not exceed 30% of the aggregate consideration paid for such Permitted Acquisition, and (z) such assets are sold, transferred or disposed of on or prior to the first anniversary of the relevant Permitted Acquisition; (xi) in order to effect a sale, transfer or disposition otherwise permitted by this Section 10.02, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into another Person, or may be dissolved or liquidated; (xii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may effect Sale-Leaseback Transactions involving real property acquired after the Closing Date and not more than 180 days prior to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction for net cash in an amount at least equal to the cost of such property; provided that any the excess of Net Sale Proceeds received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any such Sale-Leaseback Transaction from and after such time as when the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have received Net Sale Proceeds of at least $20,000,000 from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions occurring after the Closing Date shall be applied as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(d); (xiii) [reserved]; (xiv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may issue or sell Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (xv) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make transfers of property subject to casualty or condemnation proceedings upon the occurrence of the related Recovery Event; (xvi) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property rights in the ordinary course of business, in the exercise of its reasonable good faith judgment; (xvii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make voluntary terminations of or unwind Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Other Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements; (xviii) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make dispositions resulting from foreclosures by third parties on properties of the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and acquisitions by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries resulting from foreclosures by such Persons or properties of third parties; (xix) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may terminate leases and subleases; (xx) each of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use cash and Cash Equivalents to make payments that are otherwise permitted under Sections 10.03 and 10.07; (xxi) each of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or other disposition are promptly shall be applied to the purchase price of such replacement property; (xxii) sales, dispositions or contributions of property (A) between Credit Parties (other than Holdings), (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Credit Parties)extent required pursuant to Section 5.02 to repay the Loans, (C) 75% of the consideration in respect of such sale or other disposition shall consist of cash or Cash Equivalents received by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties to the Credit Parties (Parent, the Borrower, or the respective Subsidiary Guarantor which owned such Collateral Rig or the Capital Stock of the relevant Material Subsidiary, on the date of consummation of such sale or other than Holdings) or disposition, (D) by Credit Parties to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, provided with respect to clause (D) that (1) the portion (if any) no Default or Event of any such sale, disposition Default then exists or contribution of property made for less than fair market value and (2) any noncash consideration received in exchange for any such sale, disposition or contribution of property, shall in each case constitute an Investment in such Restricted Subsidiary subject to Section 10.05. (xxiii) dispositions of Investments (including Equity Interests) in, and issuances of Equity Interests by, any Permitted Joint Venture or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between the parties to such Permitted Joint Venture or equityholders of such Subsidiary set forth in, the joint venture agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement governing such Permitted Joint Venture or such Subsidiary; (xxiv) transfers of condemned property as a would result of the exercise of “eminent domain” or other similar powers to the respective Governmental Authority or agency that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of property that have been subject to a casualty to the respective insurer of such real property as part of an insurance settlement; provided that the proceeds of such dispositions are applied in accordance with Section 5.02(f); (xxv) any disposition of any asset between or among the Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim disposition in connection with a disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02; and (xxvi) dispositions permitted by Section 10.03. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof), such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall, and shall be authorized to, take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.therefrom,

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Samples: Credit Agreement (Atwood Oceanics Inc)

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