Successors Binding Agreement Clause Example from Business Contracts

Successors Binding Agreement. The Company shall require any successor (whether direct or indirect, by purchase, merger, consolidation or otherwise) to all or substantially all of the business and/or assets of the Company, by agreement in form and substance satisfactory to you, to expressly assume and agree to perform this Agreement in the same manner and to the 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 agreement prior to the effec...tiveness of any such succession that constitutes a Change in Control shall be a breach of this Agreement and shall entitle you to compensation from the Company, upon a termination by you for Other Good Reason in accordance with Section 3(e)(B), in the same amount and on the same terms as you would be entitled hereunder under Section 4. As used in this Agreement "Company" shall mean the Company as hereinbefore defined and any successor to its business and/or assets as aforesaid which executes and delivers the agreement provided for in this Section 11 or which otherwise becomes bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement by operation of law. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by your personal or legal representatives, executors, administrators, successors, heirs, distributees, devisees and legatees. If you should die while any amounts would still be payable to you hereunder if you had continued to live, all such amounts, unless otherwise provided herein, shall be paid in accordance with the terms of this Agreement to your devisees, legatees, or other designee or, if there be no such designee, to your estate within 90 days of your death; provided that where such 90-day period begins in one calendar year and ends in another calendar year, your devisees, legatees, other designee, or estate shall not be entitled to designate the taxable year of payment. View More