Successor and Assigns This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the successors and assigns of each of the parties, including subsequent Holders of Registrable Securities to the extent permitted herein.
Successors and Assigns; Participations and Assignments (a) The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby (including any affiliate of the Issuing Lender that issues any Letter of Credit), except that (i) the Borrower may not assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Lender (and any attempted assignment or transfer by the Borrower without such consent shall be null and void) and (ii) no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer its rights or obligations hereunder except in accordance with this Section.
(i) Subject to the conditions set forth in paragraph (b)(ii) below, any Lender may assign to one or more assignees (each, an “Assignee”) all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitments and the Loans at the time owing to it) with the prior written consent of:
(A) the Borrower (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), provided that no consent of the Borrower shall be required for an assignment to a Lender, an affiliate of a Lender, an Approved Fund (as defined below) or, if an Event of Default under Section 8(a) or (f) has occurred and is continuing, any other Person; and provided, further, that the Borrower shall be deemed to have consented to any such assignment unless the Borrower shall object thereto by written notice to the Administrative Agent within ten Business Days after having received written notice thereof; and
(B) the Administrative Agent, provided that no consent of the Administrative Agent shall be required for an assignment of all or any portion of a Term Loan to a Lender, an affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund.
(C) the Issuing Lender, provided that no consent of the Issuing Lender shall be required for an assignment of all or any portion of a Term Loan or Term Commitment.
(ii) Assignments shall be subject to the following additional conditions:
(A) except in the case of an assignment to a Lender, an affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund or an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lender’s Commitments or Loans under any Facility, the amount of the Commitments or Loans of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment (determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent) shall not be less than, in the case of the Revolving Facility, $5,000,000 or, in the case of the Term Facility, $1,000,000 unless each of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent otherwise consent, provided that (1) no such consent of the Borrower shall be required if an Event of Default under Section 8(a) or (f) has occurred and is continuing and (2) such amounts shall be aggregated in respect of each Lender and its affiliates or Approved Funds, if any;
(B) the parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption, together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500; and
(C) the Assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an administrative questionnaire.
Successors and Assigns Generally The provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and thereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, except that the Borrower may not assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder or thereunder without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent and each Lender and no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder except (i) to an assignee in accordance with the provisions of subsection (b) of this Section, (ii) by way of participation in accordance with the provisions of subsection (d) of this Section or (iii) by way of pledge or assignment of a security interest subject to the restrictions of subsection (f) of this Section (and any other attempted assignment or transfer by any party hereto shall be null and void). Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, Participants to the extent provided in subsection (d) of this Section and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Related Parties of each of the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer and the Lenders) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.
Successors and Assignees This Agreement binds and benefits the heirs, successors, and assignees of the parties.
Waivers and Amendments; Successors and Assigns None of the terms or provisions of this Agreement may be waived, amended, or otherwise modified except by a written instrument executed by the party against which enforcement of such waiver, amendment, or modification is sought. This Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of Pledgor and the respective permitted successors and assigns of Pledgor and shall inure to the benefit of Lender and its successors and assigns; provided no Pledgor shall have any right to assign its rights hereunder, and any attempted assignment by Pledgor shall be null and void. The rights of Lender under this Agreement shall automatically be transferred to any permitted transferee to which Lender transfers the Note and Loan Agreement.
Successors and Assigns Bound This Instrument shall bind, and the rights granted by this Instrument shall inure to, the respective successors and assigns of Lender and Borrower. However, a Transfer not permitted by Section 21 shall be an Event of Default.
Successors and Assigns Participations (a) Whenever in this Agreement any of the parties hereto is referred to, such reference shall be deemed to include the successors and assigns of such party; and all covenants, promises and agreements by or on behalf of the Borrowers or the Lenders that are contained in this Agreement shall bind and inure to the benefit of their respective successors and assigns. Neither Borrower may assign or transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of all the Lenders.
(b) Each Lender may assign to one or more assignees all or a portion of its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Rollover Term Loan or all or a portion of any of its Revolving Credit Commitment and the same portion of the related Revolving Credit Loans at the time owing to it and the related participations in Letters of Credit and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) except in the case of an assignment to a Lender or an affiliate of a Lender or for an assignment by a Lender to a Federal Reserve Bank, the Administrative Agent and NWS must give their prior written consent by countersigning the Assignment and Acceptance (which consents shall not be unreasonably withheld), (ii) each such assignment of a Revolving Credit Commitment or any Revolving Credit Exposure shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all the assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement in respect of its Revolving Credit Commitment, Revolving Credit Loans and participations in Letters of Credit to be assigned, (iii) in the case of a partial assignment, each such assignment shall be in an amount which is not less than $5,000,000 (unless NWS shall consent to a partial assignment of a lesser amount) and is an integral multiple of $1,000,000 (provided, however, that any assignment may in any event be equal to the entire amount of the Rollover Term Loan or the entire amount of the Revolving Credit Loans, participations in Letters of Credit and Revolving Credit Commitment of the assigning Lender), (iv) the parties to each such assignment 113 108 shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note subject to such assignment and a processing and recordation fee of $3,500 and (v) the assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an Administrative Questionnaire. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, which effective date shall be at least five Business Days after the execution thereof, (x) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (y) the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent provided in such assignment, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto. Assignments in accordance with this paragraph are not required to be made pro rata as between the assigning Lender's Rollover Term Loan, on the one hand, and Revolving Credit Commitment and Revolving Credit Exposure, on the other.
(c) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than the representation and warranty that it is the legal and beneficial owner of the interest being assigned thereby free and clear of any adverse claim, such Lender assignor makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such Lender assignor makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Loan Parties or the performance or observance by the Loan Parties of any of their obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee represents and warrants that it is legally authorized to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the most recent 114 109 financial statements referred to in Section 3.05 or delivered under Section 5.05 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (v) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, such Lender assignor or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent, respectively, to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement as are delegated to the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent by the terms hereof or any other Loan Document, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations which by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender.
(d) The Administrative Agent shall maintain at one of its offices in The City of New York a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Revolving Credit Commitments of, and principal amount of the Loans owing to, each Lender from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive, in the absence of manifest error, and the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders may treat each person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrowers, the Collateral Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.
(e) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee together with any Note subject to such assignment, and the fee referred to in Section 9.03(b), the Administrative Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in the form of Exhibit B hereto and, if required, the Administrative Agent and NWS have consented to such assignment as contemplated by paragraph (b) above, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register, and 115 110
Successors and Assigns; Parties in Interest (a) This Agreement shall be binding upon: the Seller and its successors and assigns (if any) and Parent, the Purchaser and their successors and assigns (if any). This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of: the Seller; Parent; the Purchaser; the other Indemnitees (subject to Section 9.6); and the respective successors and assigns (if any) of the foregoing.
(b) Parent and the Purchaser may freely assign any or all of their respective rights under this Agreement (including their indemnification rights under Section 9), in whole or in part, to any other Person without obtaining the consent or approval of any other Person. The Seller shall not be permitted to assign any of its rights or delegate any of its obligations under this Agreement without the prior written consent of Parent and the Purchaser.
(c) Except for the provisions of Section 9 hereof, none of the provisions of this Agreement is intended to provide any rights or remedies to any Person other than the parties to this Agreement and their respective successors and assigns (if any). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (i) no employee of the Seller shall have any rights under this Agreement or under any of the other Transactional Agreements, and (ii) no creditor of the Seller shall have any rights under this Agreement or any of the other Transactional Agreements.
Heirs, Successors and Assigns Each and all of the covenants, terms, provisions and agreements herein contained shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and, to the extent permitted by this Agreement, their respective heirs, legal representatives, successors and assigns.
Successors and Assignments 5.5.1 With the written consent of the Owner, the Professional may assign a portion of his financial interest to a recognized financial institution for underwriting operations covered by this Agreement. The Owner and the Professional each binds himself, his Partners, Successors, Assigns, and legal Representatives or such other party in respect to all covenants of this Agreement. Neither the Owner, nor the Professional, shall assign, sublet, or transfer interest in this Agreement without the written consent of the Owner.