Common use of Successor to Trustee by Merger, Consolidation or Succession to Business Clause in Contracts

Successor to Trustee by Merger, Consolidation or Succession to Business. Any corporation or banking association into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding. In case any Debentures shall have been authenticated, but not made available for delivery, by the Trustee then in office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and make available for delivery the Debentures so authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Debentures.