Limitation on Mergers and Consolidations. The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other entity or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, unless (a) the corporation, limited liability company, limited partnership, joint stock company, or trust formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance, transfer or lease the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety shall expressly assume, by a supplemental indenture hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and interest on all the Securities, and the performance of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or observed, (b) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event of Default, shall have happened and be continuing, and (c) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and such supplemental indenture comply with this Article and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with.
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Samples: Indenture (Williams Companies Inc), Indenture (Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp)
Limitation on Mergers and Consolidations. The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other entity or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, unless (a) the corporation, limited liability company, limited partnership, joint stock company, or trust formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance, transfer or lease the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety shall expressly assume, by a supplemental indenture hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and interest on all the Securities, and the performance of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or observed, (b) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event of Default, shall have happened and be continuing, and (c) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers' β Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and such supplemental indenture comply with this Article and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with.
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Samples: Indenture (Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp), Indenture (Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp)