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• Closing of Company Transfer Books At the Effective Time, the stock transfer books of Company shall be closed, and no transfer of Shares shall thereafter be made. If, after the Effective Time, certificates representing Shares are presented to the Surviving Corporation, they shall be canceled and exchanged for Merger Consideration applicable to such Shares.

• Acquisition Transactions The Company shall provide the holder of this Warrant with at least twenty (20) days’ written notice prior to closing thereof of the terms and conditions of any of the following transactions (to the extent the Company has notice thereof): (i) the sale, lease, exchange, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s property or business, or (ii) its merger into or consolidation with any other corporation (other than a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company), or any transaction (including a merger or other reorganization) or series of related transactions, in which more than 50% of the voting power of the Company is disposed of.

• Merger Closing (a) The Merger shall be consummated (the “Closing”) at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Standard Time) on a date to be specified by the parties, which shall be no later than the second (2nd) business day after satisfaction or (to the extent permitted by applicable Law) waiver of the conditions set forth in Article 7 (other than any such conditions that by their nature cannot be satisfied until the Closing Date, which shall be required to be so satisfied or (to the extent permitted by applicable Law) waived on the Closing Date), at the offices of Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx & Dodge LLP, 000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxxx 00000, unless another time, date or place is agreed to in writing by the parties hereto (such date upon which the Closing occurs, the “Closing Date”). (b) At the Closing, the parties hereto shall cause the Merger to be consummated by filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware a certificate of merger or other appropriate documents (in any such case, the “Certificate of Merger”) in such form as required by, and executed in accordance with, the relevant provisions of the DGCL and shall make all other filings or recordings required under the DGCL. The Merger shall become effective at such time as the Certificate of Merger is duly filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware, or at such later time as Parent and the Company shall agree and specify in the Certificate of Merger (the time and date the Merger becomes effective being the “Effective Time” and “Effective Date” respectively).

• The Merger Closing (a) As soon as reasonably practicable on the Closing Date, the Company and Merger Subsidiary shall execute and file articles of merger with the Department of Financial Institutions of the State of Wisconsin and make all other filings or recordings required by the WBCL to be made in connection with the Merger. The Merger shall become effective at such time as the articles of merger are duly filed with the Department of Financial Institutions of the State of Wisconsin or, if agreed to by the Company and Parent, at such later time as is specified in the articles of merger (the "Effective Time"). (b) Upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, at the Effective Time, Merger Subsidiary shall be merged with and into the Company in accordance with the requirements of the WBCL, whereupon the separate existence of Merger Subsidiary shall cease. The Company shall be the surviving corporation in the Merger (the "Surviving Corporation"). (c) The Merger will have the effects set forth in the WBCL, including the effects set forth in Section 180.1106 of the WBCL. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, and subject thereto, from and after the Effective Time, the Surviving Corporation shall possess all the rights, privileges, immunities, powers and purposes and shall assume and be liable for all the liabilities, obligations and penalties of the Company and Merger Subsidiary. (d) The closing of the transactions contemplated hereby (the "Closing") shall take place at the offices of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Xxxxxxx & Xxxx LLP, Four Times Square, New York, New York 10036-6522, at 10:00 a.m. local time, as soon as reasonably practicable, but in any event within two (2) Business Days after the satisfaction or, to the extent permitted hereby, waiver of all of the conditions to the Merger, other than those conditions that by their nature are to be fulfilled at Closing, but subject to the satisfaction or waiver of such conditions, unless this Agreement has been heretofore terminated pursuant to its terms or another time or date is agreed to in writing by the parties hereto (the actual time and date of the Closing being referred to herein as the "Closing Date").

• Conversion of Merger Sub Capital Stock Each share of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of Merger Sub issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be converted into and become one newly issued, fully paid and non-assessable share of common stock of the Surviving Corporation.

• Merger of Merger Sub into the Company Upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement, at the Effective Time (as defined in Section 1.3), Merger Sub shall be merged with and into the Company, and the separate existence of Merger Sub shall cease. The Company will continue as the surviving corporation in the Merger (the "Surviving Corporation").

• Consolidation, Merger, Sale or Purchase of Assets, etc The Borrower will not, nor will permit any of its respective Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions, or purchase or otherwise acquire (in one or a series of related transactions) any part of the property or assets (other than purchases or other acquisitions of inventory, materials and equipment in the ordinary course of business) of any Person or agree to do any of the foregoing at any future time, except that the following shall be permitted: (i) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (including intellectual property) in the ordinary course of business (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation); (ii) Capital Expenditures by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (iii) any Investments permitted pursuant to Section 10.05; (iv) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may, in the ordinary course of business, sell or otherwise dispose of assets (excluding capital stock of, or other Equity Interests in, Subsidiaries and joint ventures) which, in the reasonable opinion of such Person, are obsolete, uneconomic or worn-out; (v) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may sell assets (other than (I) the capital stock or other Equity Interests of any Wholly-Owned Subsidiary unless all of the capital stock or other Equity Interests of such Wholly-Owned Subsidiary are sold in accordance with this clause (v) and (II) assets subject to a Contemplated Asset Sale (which shall be governed by Section 10.02(xviii)), so long as (v) no Default or Event of Default then exists or would result therefrom, (w) each such sale is in an arm’s-length transaction and the Borrower or the respective Subsidiary receives at least Fair Market Value, (x) except for customary post-closing adjustments (to be paid in cash within 180 days following the closing of the respective sale or disposition), at least 75% of the total consideration received by the Borrower or such Subsidiary is paid in cash at the time of the closing of such sale or disposition (provided that sales of assets for aggregate consideration of $20,000,000 (taking the Fair Market Value of any non-cash consideration) in any Fiscal Year of the Borrower shall not be subject to the minimum cash requirement set forth above in this subclause (x)), (y) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied and/or reinvested as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(b) and (z) the aggregate amount of the proceeds received from all assets sold pursuant to this clause (v) shall not exceed $150,000,000 in any Fiscal Year of the Borrower; (vi) each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case without recourse and in the ordinary course of business, overdue accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (vii) each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, in each case so long as no such grant otherwise affects the Collateral Agent’s security interest in the asset or property subject thereto; (viii) subject to Sections 10.01(b) and (c), transfers of assets (w) pursuant to the Foreign Asset Transfer, (x) among the Qualified Obligors, (y) by any Subsidiary of the Borrower to any Qualified Obligor, and (z) by any Foreign Subsidiary of the Borrower to any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Borrower, in the case of any such transfer, so long as (I) no Specified Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect to the respective transfer, (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors pursuant to the relevant Security Documents in the assets so transferred shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such transfer) and (III) if the respective transferor is party to a Subsidiaries Guaranty, the nature and scope of the obligations of such transferor under its Subsidiaries Guaranty are substantially identical to the nature and scope of the obligations of the respective transferee under its Subsidiaries Guaranty; (ix) subject to Sections 10.01(b) and (c), (x) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Borrower may be merged, consolidated or liquidated with or into the Borrower (so long as the Borrower is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation or liquidation) or any Subsidiary Guarantor (so long as a Subsidiary Guarantor is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation or liquidation), and (y) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Borrower may be merged, consolidated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Borrower, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation or liquidation; provided that any such merger, consolidation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02 (ix), so long as (I) no Specified Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto, (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation or liquidation) and (III) if the Person to be merged, consolidated or liquidated into another Person as contemplated above is party to a Subsidiaries Guaranty, the nature and scope of the obligations of such Person under its Subsidiaries Guaranty are substantially identical to the nature and scope of the obligations of such other Person under its Subsidiaries Guaranty; (x) subject to Sections 10.01(b) and (c), the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may transfer inventory in a non-cash or cash transfer to Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries of the Borrower that are not Qualified Obligors, in each case so long as (I) any such transfer is made in the ordinary course of its business and consistent with past practice of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as in effect on the Effective Date, (II) if the respective transfer is being made to any Credit Party, all actions needed to maintain the perfection, priority and enforceability of the security interests, if any, of the Collateral Agent in the assets so transferred are taken at the time of the respective transfer, (III) the Borrower reasonably determines that the transfer is not reasonably likely to be adverse to the interests of the Lenders in any material respect and (IV) no Specified Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect to the respective transfer; (xi) subject to Sections 10.01(b) and (c), so long as no Specified Default and no Event of Default exists at the time of the respective transfer or immediately after giving effect thereto, Qualified Obligors shall be permitted to transfer additional assets (other than inventory, cash, Cash Equivalents and Equity Interests in any Credit Party) to other Subsidiaries of the Borrower, so long as cash in an amount at least equal to the Fair Market Value of the assets so transferred is received by the respective transferor; (xii) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may sell or exchange specific items of equipment, so long as the purpose of each such sale or exchange is to acquire (and results within 90 days of such sale or exchange in the acquisition of) replacement items of equipment which are useful in a Permitted Business; (xiii) the U.S. Xxxx Group shall be permitted to make Permitted Acquisitions, so long as such Permitted Acquisitions are effected in accordance with the requirements of Section 9.14; (xiv) one or more Subsidiaries identified to the Agents may sell all of the Equity Interests of a certain Subsidiary of the Borrower owned by such Subsidiaries and identified to the Agents, so long as (v) no Default or Event of Default then exists or would result therefrom, (w) each such sale is in an arm’s-length transaction and the respective Subsidiary receives at least Fair Market Value, (x) except for customary post-closing adjustments, at least 20% of the total consideration received by such Subsidiaries (in the aggregate) is paid in cash at the time of the closing of such sale or disposition, (y) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied and/or reinvested as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(b) and (z) the aggregate amount of the consideration (taking the Fair Market Value of any non-cash consideration) received from all assets sold pursuant to Section (xiv), together with the sale or sales made pursuant to Section 10.02(xx), shall not exceed $50,000,000; (xv) the Sale-Lease Back Transaction; (xvi) each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may sell or liquidate Cash Equivalents, in each case for cash at fair market value (as reasonably determined by the Borrower or the respective Subsidiary); (xvii) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may sell inventory to their respective customers in the ordinary course of business; (xviii) each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may effect Contemplated Asset Sales, so long as (i) no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto, (ii) each such sale is an arms’-length transaction and the Borrower or the respective Subsidiary receives at least Fair Market Value, (iii) the consideration therefor consists solely of cash and/or Permitted Installment Notes (to the extent same may be issued in accordance with the definition thereof), (iv) at least 50% of the total consideration received by the Borrower or such Subsidiary is paid in cash at the time of the closing of such sale, and (v) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as, and to the extent, required by Section 5.02(b); (xix) the Borrower and its Domestic Subsidiaries may sell and leaseback (i) Real Property located in Xxxxxx County, North Carolina (the “Xxxxxx Property”), to the extent same is not a Principal Property and (ii) Principal Properties, so long as (v) no Default or Event of Default then exists or would result therefrom, (w) each such sale is made pursuant to an arm’s-length transaction, (x) 100% of the total consideration received by the Borrower or such Subsidiary is paid in cash at the time of the closing of such sale, (y) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom equal at least 90% of the Fair Market Value of the Property subject to such sale-leaseback transaction and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as a mandatory repayment and/or commitment reduction and/or reinvested, in any case, in accordance with the requirements of Section 5.02(b); and (xx) certain Domestic Subsidiaries of the Borrower identified to the Agents may sell the Equity Interests of certain other Domestic Subsidiaries identified to the Agents which own Real Property located in California, and certain Domestic Subsidiaries identified to the Agents which own Real Property located in California may sell Real Property and other assets, in each case, so long as (v) no Default or Event of Default then exists or would result therefrom, (w) each such sale is in an arm’s-length transaction and the respective Subsidiary receives at least Fair Market Value, (x) except for customary post-closing adjustments, at least 75% of the total consideration received by such Subsidiaries (in the aggregate) is paid in cash at the time of the closing of such sale, (y) unless on-loaned to an Affiliate of a Borrower in accordance with the requirements of Sections 10.05 and 10.07 promptly following the consummation of such sale, any Net Sale Proceeds therefrom received by a Subsidiary of a Borrower (exclusive of any portion thereof which is distributed to a minority shareholder of such Subsidiary in accordance with the requirements of Section 10.06) are applied and/or reinvested as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(b) and (z) the aggregate amount of the consideration (taking the Fair Market Value of any non-cash consideration) received from such sale or sales pursuant to Section (xx), together with the sale or sales made pursuant to Section 10.02(xiv) shall not exceed $50,000,000 (the “California Disposition”).

• Capital Stock of Merger Sub Each share of the common stock of Merger Sub issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be converted into and become one fully paid and nonassessable share of common stock, $0.01 par value per share, of the Surviving Corporation.

• Company Shareholder Approval The Company Shareholder Approval shall have been obtained.

• CONSOLIDATION, MERGER AND SALE Unless a Company Order or supplemental indenture establishing a series of Securities provides otherwise, nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of the Securities shall prevent any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any other corporation or corporations (whether or not affiliated with the Company), or successive consolidations or mergers in which the Company or its successor or successors shall be a party or parties, or shall prevent any sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of the property of the Company or its successor or successors as an entirety, or substantially as an entirety, to any other corporation (whether or not affiliated with the Company or its successor or successors) authorized to acquire and operate the same; provided, however, the Company hereby covenants and agrees that, upon any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition, the due and punctual payment of the principal of (premium, if any) and interest on all of the Securities of all series in accordance with the terms of each series, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions of this Indenture with respect to each series or established with respect to such series pursuant to Section 2.01 to be kept or performed by the Company, shall be expressly assumed, by supplemental indenture (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect) satisfactory in form to the Trustee executed and delivered to the Trustee by the entity formed by such consolidation, or into which the Company shall have been merged, or by the entity which shall have acquired such property.