Assignments by Lenders. Any Lender may at any time assign to one or more assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans (including for purposes of this [subsection (b)], participations in L/C Obligations) at the time owing to it); provided that any such assignment shall be subject to the following conditions:

Assignments and Successors. This Agreement may not be assigned by Employee. In addition to any obligations imposed by law upon any successor [[Organization A:Organization]], the Company will require any successor (whether direct or indirect, by purchase, merger, consolidation or otherwise) to all or substantially all of the stock, business and/or assets of the Company to expressly assume and agree to perform this Agreement in the same manner and [[Organization A:Organization]] same extent that the Company would be required to perform it if no such succession had taken place. Failure of the Company to obtain such assumption by a successor shall be a material breach of this Agreement. Employee agrees and consents to any such assumption by a successor of the Company, as well as any assignment of this Agreement by the Company for that purpose. As used in this Agreement, the "Company" as herein before defined as well as any such successor that expressly assumes this Agreement or otherwise becomes bound by all of its terms and provisions by operation of law. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure [[Organization A:Organization]] benefit of the parties and their permitted successors or assigns.

Exception to Assignments. Employee understands that the provisions of this Agreement requiring assignment of Inventions to the Company do not apply to any invention which qualifies fully under the provisions of California Labor Code Section 2870. Employee shall advise the Company promptly in writing of any inventions that Employee believe meet such provisions and are not otherwise disclosed to the Company.

Electronic Execution of Assignments. The words “execution,” “signed,” “signature,” and words of like import in any Assignment and Assumption shall be deemed to include electronic signatures, the electronic matching of assignment terms and contract formations on electronic platforms approved by the Administrative Agent, or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature, physical delivery thereof or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, to the extent and as provided for in any applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act, or any other similar state laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act; provided that notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary neither the Administrative Agent, any L/C Issuer nor any Lender is under any obligation to agree to accept electronic signatures in any form or in any format unless expressly agreed to by the Administrative Agent, such L/C Issuer or such Lender pursuant to procedures approved by it and provided further without limiting the foregoing, upon the request of any party, any electronic signature shall be promptly followed by a manually executed counterpart.

Federal Reserve Bank Assignments. In addition to the assignments and participations permitted under the foregoing provisions of [Section 10.1], and without the need to comply with any of the formal or procedural requirements of this [Section 10.1], notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, ​ may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement and any other Loan Document in favor of # any Federal Reserve Bank, any Federal Home Loan Bank or the central reserve bank or similar authority of any other country to secure any obligation of ​ to such bank or similar authority (a “Central Bank Pledge”). In the event that the interest of ​ that is assigned in connection with a Central Bank Pledge is foreclosed upon and transferred to the pledgee thereof, ​ shall have no further liability hereunder with respect to the interest that was the subject of such transfer and the assignee shall be ​ with respect to such interest. ​ shall not be required to notify ​ of any Central Bank Pledge.

Each Participant may designate a beneficiary or beneficiaries to receive, in the event of such Participant’s death, any Award amounts due to the Participant under the Plan. Each Participant shall have the right to revoke any such designation and to redesignate a beneficiary or beneficiaries by written notice to the Company to such effect. If any Participant dies without naming a beneficiary or if all of the beneficiaries named by a Participant predecease the Participant, then any Award amounts due to the Participant shall be paid to the Participant’s estate. Prior to a Participant’s death, except as otherwise required by applicable law, any interest, benefit, payment, claim or right of such Participant under the Plan may not be sold, transferred, assigned, pledged, encumbered or hypothecated by the Participant and shall not be subject in any manner to any claims of any creditor of the Participant or beneficiary, and any attempt to take any such action shall be null and void. During the lifetime of a Participant, payment of an Award shall only be made to the Participant.

Assignments to Purchasing Borrower Party. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, any Lender may assign all or a portion of its Term Loans to any Purchasing Borrower Party; provided that:

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Section10.6Successors; Assignments.

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