Assignment Prohibited No party to this Agreement may assign any right or obligation pursuant to this Agreement. Any attempted or purported assignment of any right or obligation pursuant to this Agreement shall be void and of no effect.
General Prohibitions Subject to and except as permitted by Sections 6.3(b) and 6.3(h), until the earlier of the termination of this Agreement pursuant to Article VIII hereof and the Effective Time, the Company shall not, nor shall it authorize or permit any of its Subsidiaries or any of its or their respective directors, officers or employees to, and the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause its investment bankers, financial advisors, attorneys, accountants or other advisors, agents or representatives (collectively, “Representatives”) to, directly or indirectly, (i) solicit, initiate, or knowingly encourage or facilitate, any inquiries with respect to or the making of any proposal that constitutes or is reasonably likely to lead to a Takeover Proposal or any public announcement by any Third Party of any Takeover Proposal or of any intention to make the same, (ii) enter into or participate in any discussions or negotiations regarding any Takeover Proposal, furnish to any Third Party any non-public information (whether orally or in writing) in response to or in furtherance of any Takeover Proposal (for avoidance of doubt, it being hereby acknowledged and agreed that the foregoing shall not prohibit the Company or any of its Representatives from making any Third Party aware of the provisions of this Section 6.3 in response to any Takeover Proposal, nor shall the foregoing prohibit the Company from engaging in discussions with its Representatives to the extent necessary to assist the Company in determining how to comply with the provisions of this Section 6.3 and applicable Law), or afford any Third Party access to the business, properties, assets, books or records of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, otherwise cooperate in any way with, or knowingly assist, participate in, facilitate or encourage any effort by, any Third Party that has made, or has informed the Company of any intention to make, or who has publicly announced an intention to make, a Takeover Proposal, (iii) recommend, adopt or approve, or publicly propose to recommend, adopt or approve, a Takeover Proposal, or fail to make in accordance with Section 6.1(a)(ii), withdraw or modify or resolve to take any action or make any public statement inconsistent with the Company Offer Recommendation or Company Merger Recommendation (any of the foregoing in this clause (iii), a “Company Adverse Recommendation Change”), (iv) take any action to make the provisions of any “fair price,” “moratorium,” “control share acquisition,” “business combination” or other similar anti-takeover statute or regulation (including approving any transaction for purposes of or approving a Third Party becoming an “interested stockholder” under Section 203 of the DGCL), or any restrictive provision of any applicable anti-takeover provision in the Company’s certificate of incorporation or bylaws, inapplicable to any transactions contemplated by a Takeover Proposal, (v) enter into any Takeover Proposal (other than a confidentiality agreement of the type referred to in Section 6.3(b)) or (vi) grant any Third Party any waiver or release under any standstill or similar agreement with respect to any class of equity securities of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. Without limiting the foregoing, it is agreed that any violation of the restrictions on the Company set forth in the preceding sentence by any Representative of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall be a breach of this Section 6.3.