Successors Binding Agreement Clause Example from Business Contracts

Successors Binding Agreement. (a) The Bank and the Corporation will require any successor (whether direct or indirect, by purchase, merger, consolidation, or otherwise) to all or substantially all of the businesses and/or assets of the Bank and the Corporation to expressly assume and agree to perform this Agreement in the same manner and to the same extent that the Bank and the Corporation would be required to perform it if no such succession had taken place. Failure by the Bank and the Corporation to obtain such assumption ...and agreement prior to the effectiveness of any such succession shall constitute a breach of this Agreement. As used in this Agreement, "the Bank and the Corporation" shall mean the Bank and the Corporation, as defined previously and any successor to their respective businesses and/or assets as aforesaid which assumes and agrees to perform this Agreement by operation of law or otherwise. 12 (b) This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by Employee's personal or legal representatives, executors, administrators, heirs, distributees, devisees and legatees. If Employee should die after a Notice of Termination is delivered by Employee, or following termination of Employee's employment without Cause, and any amounts would be payable to Employee under this Agreement if Employee had continued to live, all such amounts shall be paid in accordance with the terms of this Agreement to Employee's devisee, legatee, or other designee, or, if there is no such designee, to Employee's estate. View More