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• Assumption of Certain Liabilities (a) Upon the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement, at the Closing, Purchaser agrees to cause the Designated Purchasers to assume, pay, perform and discharge when due, all liabilities or obligations listed in this Section 2.03, and only such liabilities or obligations listed in this Section 2.03 (except as otherwise specifically provided in this Agreement), whether arising before or after the Closing and whether known or unknown, fixed or contingent (the "Assumed Liabilities"): (i) all liabilities set forth on the Closing Date Balance Sheet, other than any such liabilities that are Excluded Liabilities; (ii) all liabilities and obligations of Sellers arising under or pursuant to the Acquired Contracts, the Permits, the Acquired Intellectual Property and the Acquired Know-how; (iii) all liabilities and obligations relating to employee benefit plans, programs or arrangements associated with or relating to any Transferred Employee, but only to the extent such liabilities and obligations are expressly assumed by any Designated Purchaser pursuant to Article VII of this Agreement; (iv) the Specified Contingent Liabilities in an amount equal to (and no amounts in excess of) the aggregate amount (the "Contingent Reserve Amount") of the Contingency Reserves reflected or shown on the Closing Date Balance Sheet; and (v) all other liabilities and obligations of Parent and Sellers to the extent relating to the Business other than the Excluded Liabilities; provided, however, that with respect to any such other liability or obligation not relating exclusively to the Business, the Designated Purchasers shall only assume that portion of such liability or obligation that is allocable to the Business on a pro rata basis. (b) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary or any other writing to the contrary, Purchaser shall cause the Designated Purchasers to assume only the Assumed Liabilities, and nether the Purchaser nor any other Designated Purchaser shall assume any other liability or obligation of Parent or any Seller (or any predecessor owner of all or part of its business and assets) of whatever nature whether presently in existence or arising hereafter. All such other liabilities and obligations ahll be retained by and remain obligations of Parent or Sellers (or any such predecessor owner) (all such liabilities and obligations not being assumed being herein referred to as the "Excluded Liabilities"). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Excluded Liabilities shall include the following: (i) all liabilities and obligations which are attributable to any of the Excluded Assets, or associated with the realization of the benefits of any of the Excluded Assets; (ii) the Tax Liabilities, other than the Assumed Tax Liabilities in an amount equal to (and no amounts in excess of) the amount of any specific reserve therefor reflected or shown on the Closing Date Balance Sheet; (iii) the Existing Seller Indebtedness, other than Capital Lease Obligations reflected on the Closing Date Balance Sheet in an amount not in excess of $100,000 in the aggregate and other than as set forth in Schedule 5.14; (iv) all liabilities and obligations relating to compensation and any pension, deferred compensation, vacation, medical benefit, life insurance, severance of other employee health or safety matters (other than worker's compensation) and any other employee benefit plans, programs or arrangements associated with or relating to any Transferred Employee or any other employee or former employee employed in the Business and all liabilities and obligations relating to or arising from the employment or cessation of employment of any such employee (including, but not limited to, all liabilities and obligations under any severance plan or arrangement of Parent, Sellers, the Purchased Entities or their respective Affiliates), except to the extent such liabilities and obligations are expressly assumed pursuant to Article VII of this Agreement; (v) all liabilities and obligations arising from worker's compensation claims relating to pre-Closing events; (vi) all Specified Contingent Liabilities to the extent the aggregate amount of Specified Contingent Liabilities exceeds the Contingent Reserve Amount; (vii) all liabilities and obligations to the extent arising from the Excluded Joint Ventures; (viii) all liabilities and obligations covered, but only to the extent covered, by any insurance policy maintained by Parent, Sellers, the Purchased Entities or any of their respective Affiliates; and (ix) all other liabilities and obligations of Parent and Sellers to the extent not relating to the Business; provided, however, that with respect to any such other liability or obligation not relating exclusively to the Business, Parent and Sellers shall only retain that portion of such liability or obligation that is not allocable to the Business on a pro rata basis. (c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.03, to the extent a liability is included in the calculation of Closing Date Net Tangible Asset Value (as finally determined in accordance with Section 2.05), such liability shall (in an amount equal to (and no amount in excess of) the amount included in such calculation) be deemed to be an Assumed Liability, whether or not such liability is listed as an Excluded Liability under Section 2.03(b).

• Purchase and Sale of Assets Assumption of Liabilities 8 2.1 Purchase and Sale of Assets 8 2.2 Excluded Assets 10 2.3 Assumption of Liabilities 11 2.4 Excluded Liabilities 12 2.5 Further Conveyances and Assumptions; Consent of Third Parties 12 2.6 Purchase Price Allocation 13

• Assumption of Assumed Liabilities Upon the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement, at the Closing, Purchaser shall (i) assume and, subject to Section 2.5, Section 6.5, Section 6.6 and Article VII, pay, perform, satisfy and discharge any and all Liabilities of the Sellers or any of their Affiliates (including the Conveyed Subsidiaries and their Subsidiaries), whether arising prior to, on or after the Closing, to the extent resulting from or arising out of the past, present or future ownership, operation, use or conduct of the Business or the Purchased Assets (including the Shares) and (ii) cause the Conveyed Subsidiaries and their Subsidiaries to pay, perform, satisfy and discharge any and all of their respective Liabilities, in each case of the foregoing clauses (i) and (ii), other than Liabilities identified as Retained Liabilities in clauses (a) through (g) of Section 2.5 (all of the foregoing Liabilities being collectively referred to herein as the “Assumed Liabilities”). The Assumed Liabilities shall also include the following: (a) all Liabilities to the extent expressly assumed by, retained by or agreed to be performed by Purchaser or its Subsidiaries (including the Conveyed Subsidiaries and their Subsidiaries) pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, including all Liabilities to the extent transferred to or assumed or retained by Purchaser or its Subsidiaries pursuant to Section 6.6 and Section 6.13; (b) all Liabilities in respect of any Action, whether class, individual or otherwise in nature, in law or in equity, whether or not presently threatened, asserted or pending, to the extent arising out of, or to the extent relating to, the Business or the operation or conduct of the Business prior to, on or after the Closing; (c) all Liabilities for Taxes of the Conveyed Subsidiaries and their Subsidiaries and, without duplication, all other Liabilities for Taxes imposed with respect to, arising out of or relating to the Purchased Assets or the Business, in each case, other than Seller Indemnified Taxes for which Seller Parent is liable pursuant to this Agreement; (d) all Liabilities to the extent arising out of, or to the extent relating to, the design, manufacture, testing, marketing, distribution, use or sale of Products prior to, on or after the Closing, including warranty obligations and irrespective of the legal theory asserted; (e) all Liabilities to suppliers and customers, in each case to the extent arising out of, or to the extent relating to, the Business, including in respect of any Products returned prior to, on or after the Closing; (f) all accounts payable and all other Liabilities, in each case included in the calculation of Final Business Working Capital, all Funded Indebtedness included in the calculation of Final Business Net Cash and all other Indebtedness of the Conveyed Subsidiaries (or their Subsidiaries) that is not Funded Indebtedness; (g) all Environmental Liabilities of any nature whatsoever to the extent arising out of, or relating to, or in respect of the Conveyed Subsidiaries (or their Subsidiaries), the Purchased Assets, the Business or the Facilities, whether arising prior to, on or after the Closing, other than the Retained Facilities Environmental Liabilities or the Retained Environmental Liabilities; (h) all Liabilities to the extent relating to, resulting from or arising out of the Assumed Contracts, including Purchaser’s or its Affiliates’ (including any Conveyed Subsidiary’s or its Subsidiaries’) portion of Shared Contractual Liabilities pursuant to Section 2.2(d); and (i) the Liabilities set forth in Section 2.4(i) of the Seller Disclosure Letter.

• Merger or Consolidation of, or Assumption of the Obligations of, Seller Any Person (a) into which the Seller may be merged or consolidated, (b) which may result from any merger or consolidation to which the Seller shall be a party or (c) which may succeed to the properties and assets of the Seller substantially as a whole, which Person in any of the foregoing cases executes an agreement of assumption to perform every obligation of the Seller under this Agreement, shall be the successor to the Seller hereunder without the execution or filing of any document or any further act by any of the parties to this Agreement; provided, however, that (i) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no representation or warranty made pursuant to Section 3.1(a) shall have been breached and no Servicer Termination Event, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time, or both, would become a Servicer Termination Event shall have happened and be continuing, (ii) the Seller shall have delivered to the Owner Trustee, the Trust Collateral Agent and the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such consolidation, merger or succession and such agreement of assumption comply with this Section and that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Agreement relating to such transaction have been complied with, (iii) the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied with respect to such transaction and (iv) the Seller shall have delivered to the Owner Trustee, the Trust Collateral Agent and the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, either (A) all financing statements and continuation statements and amendments thereto have been executed and filed that are necessary fully to preserve and protect the interest of the Trust Collateral Agent, the Issuer and the Trustee, respectively, in the Receivables and reciting the details of such filings or (B) no such action shall be necessary to preserve and protect such interest. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the execution of the foregoing agreement of assumption and compliance with clauses (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) above shall be conditions to the consummation of the transactions referred to in clauses (a), (b) or (c) above.

• Due-on-Sale Clauses; Assumption Agreements To the extent provided in the applicable Servicing Agreement, to the extent Mortgage Loans contain enforceable due-on-sale clauses, the Master Servicer shall cause the Servicers to enforce such clauses in accordance with the applicable Servicing Agreement. If applicable law prohibits the enforcement of a due-on-sale clause or such clause is otherwise not enforced in accordance with the applicable Servicing Agreement, and, as a consequence, a Mortgage Loan is assumed, the original Mortgagor may be released from liability in accordance with the applicable Servicing Agreement.

• Assumption of Liabilities Upon the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement, Acquisition Subsidiary agrees, effective at the time of Closing, to assume all obligations and liabilities of Seller of any kind, character or description, arising exclusively or primarily out of the conduct of the Business (the "ASSUMED LIABILITIES"), except for the Excluded Liabilities, including, without limitation, the following: (a) Accounts payable which are either disclosed on the Most Recent Balance Sheet or incurred by Seller in the ordinary course of operating the Business between January 1, 2004 and the Closing; (b) Liabilities and obligations related to customer deposits which are either disclosed on the Most Recent Balance Sheet or incurred by Seller in the ordinary course of operating the Business between January 1, 2004 and the Closing; (c) Accrued payroll (including bonuses in the ordinary course of business) and accrued vacation and sick time which are either disclosed on the Most Recent Balance Sheet or incurred in the ordinary course of operating the Business between January 1, 2004 and the Closing; (d) Other accrued liabilities relating to the Business (of the nature included in the Most Recent Balance Sheet in the line item "Other accrued liabilities") which are either disclosed on the Most Recent Balance Sheet or incurred by Seller in the ordinary course of operating the Business between January 1, 2004 and the Closing; (e) Indebtedness to certain related parties of Seller, after giving effect to the transfer of the Excluded Real Property, subject to a mortgage or deed of trust securing the Real Estate Facility, to the holder(s) of such indebtedness in exchange for the cancellation of a portion of such indebtedness (the "RELATED PARTY DEBT"), as more particularly described in SCHEDULE 2.3(e) of the Disclosure Schedule; and (f) Seller's obligations under the Assumed Contracts.

• Transfer of Assets and Assumption of Liabilities (a) On or prior to the Effective Time, but in any case prior to the Distribution, in accordance with the Plan of Reorganization:

• Specifications of Certain Matters Anything referred to in this Annex as being specified in Paragraph 11 also may be specified in one or more Confirmations or other documents and this Annex will be construed accordingly.

• MERGER OR CONSOLIDATION OF, OR ASSUMPTION OF THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE SELLER Any Person (a) into which SLM ECFC may be merged or consolidated, (b) which may result from any merger or consolidation to which SLM ECFC shall be a party or (c) which may succeed to the properties and assets of SLM ECFC substantially as a whole, shall be the successor to SLM ECFC without the execution or filing of any document or any further act by any of the parties to these Master Terms; provided, however, that SLM ECFC hereby covenants that it will not consummate any of the foregoing transactions except upon satisfaction of the following: (i) the surviving Person, if other than SLM ECFC, executes an agreement of assumption to perform every obligation of SLM ECFC under these Master Terms, each Purchase Agreement and each Xxxx of Sale; (ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no representation or warranty made pursuant to Section 5 shall have been breached; (iii) the surviving Person, if other than SLM ECFC, shall have delivered to the Interim Eligible Lender Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such consolidation, merger or succession and such agreement of assumption comply with this Section and that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in these Master Terms relating to such transaction have been complied with, and that the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied with respect to such transaction; and (iv) if SLM ECFC is not the surviving entity, SLM ECFC shall have delivered to the Interim Eligible Lender Trustee an Opinion of Counsel either (A) stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all financing statements and continuation statements and amendments thereto have been executed and filed that are necessary fully to preserve and protect the interest of Funding and the Interim Eligible Lender Trustee, respectively, in the Purchased Loans and reciting the details of such filings, or (B) stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, no such action shall be necessary to preserve and protect such interests.

• Merger or Consolidation of, or Assumption of the Obligations of, Depositor Any Person (i) into which the Depositor shall be merged or consolidated, (ii) resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Depositor shall be a party or (iii) that shall succeed by purchase and assumption to all or substantially all of the business of the Depositor, which Person in any of the foregoing cases executes an agreement of assumption to perform every obligation of the Depositor under this Agreement, shall be the successor to the Depositor under this Agreement without the execution or filing of any other document or any further act on the part of any of the parties to this Agreement; provided, however, that (x) the Depositor shall have delivered to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such merger, conversion, consolidation or succession and such agreement of assumption comply with this Section 6.3, (y) the Depositor shall have delivered to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel either (A) stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all financing statements and continuation statements and amendments thereto have been authorized and filed that are necessary to fully preserve and protect the interest of the Trust and the Indenture Trustee, respectively, in the Receivables, and reciting the details of such filings or referring to prior Opinions of Counsel in which such details are given, or (B) stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, no such action shall be necessary to fully preserve and protect such interest and (z) the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the execution of the foregoing agreement of assumption and compliance with clauses (x), (y) and (z) above shall be conditions to the consummation of the transactions referred to in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) above.