Common use of Transfer of Assets and Liabilities Clause in Contracts

Transfer of Assets and Liabilities. 5.01. On the Effective Date, the rights, privileges, powers and franchises, both of a public as well as of a private nature, of each of the Merging Entities shall be vested in and possessed by the Surviving Entity subject to all the disabilities, duties and restrictions of or upon each of the Merging Entities. All the rights, privileges, powers and franchises of each of the Merging Entities, and all property, real, personal and mixed, and all debts due to each of the Merging Entities on whatever account, as well as for stock subscriptions and all things in action or belonging to each of the Merging Entities shall be transferred to and vested in the Surviving Entity. All property, rights, privileges, powers and franchises, and all and every other interest, shall be thereafter the property of the Surviving Entity as much as they were of the Merging Entities, and the title to any real estate vested by deed or otherwise in either of the Merging Entities shall not revert or be in any way impaired by reason of the Merger. However, all rights of creditors and all liens upon any property of either of the Merging Entities shall be preserved unimpaired, and all debts, liabilities and duties of each of the Merging Entities shall attach to the Surviving Entity and may be enforced against it to the same extent as if such debts, liabilities and duties had been incurred or contracted by it.