The Merger On the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement, and in accordance with the DGCL (including Section 251(h) of the DGCL), Merger Sub shall be merged with and into the Company at the Effective Time. At the Effective Time, the separate corporate existence of Merger Sub shall cease and the Company shall continue as the surviving corporation (the “Surviving Corporation”).
Bank Merger The Parties shall stand ready to consummate the Bank Merger immediately after the Merger.
The Bank Merger Immediately following the Effective Time, the Bank shall be merged with and into UNB (the "Bank Merger") in accordance with the provisions of the National Bank Act and the New Jersey Banking Act of 1948, as amended, and UNB shall be the surviving bank (the "Surviving Bank"). Upon the consummation of the Bank Merger, the separate existence of the Bank shall cease and the Surviving Bank shall be considered the same business and corporate entity as each of the Bank and UNB and all of the property, rights, powers and franchises of each of the Bank and UNB shall vest in the Surviving Bank and the Surviving Bank shall be deemed to have assumed all of the debts, liabilities, obligations and duties of each of the Bank and UNB and shall have succeeded to all of each of their relationships, fiduciary or otherwise, as fully and to the same extent as if such property, rights, privileges, powers, franchises, debts, obligations, duties and relationships had been originally acquired, incurred or entered into by the Surviving Bank. Upon the consummation of the Bank Merger, the articles of association and bylaws of UNB shall become the articles of association and bylaws of the Surviving Bank, the officers and employees of UNB and the officers and employees of the Bank shall be the officers and employees of the Surviving Bank with such additions as the Board of Directors of UNB shall determine, and the directors of UNB shall be the directors of the Surviving Bank with the additions from the directors of Raritan as specified herein. In connection with the execution of this Agreement, the Bank and UNB shall execute and deliver a separate merger agreement (the "Bank Merger Agreement") in substantially the form of Exhibit A, annexed hereto, for delivery to the appropriate regulatory authorities for approval of the Bank Merger.
Second Merger (a) Parent shall take all actions necessary to: (i) promptly following the date of this Agreement, form Second Merger Sub, (ii) cause Merger Sub and Second Merger Sub to perform their obligations contemplated by this Agreement and to consummate the Mergers on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement and (iii) ensure that neither Merger Sub before the Effective Time nor Second Merger Sub prior to the Second Effective Time will conduct any business, incur or guarantee any indebtedness or any other liabilities or make any investments, other than those activities incident to their respective obligations under this Agreement or the transaction contemplated hereby. (b) Parent shall take all actions necessary to cause, following the date of this Agreement but prior to the consummation of the Mergers, the Board of Directors of Second Merger Sub to (i) determine that the Mergers contemplated hereby (including the Second Merger) are fair to and in the best interests of the sole stockholder of Second Merger Sub, (ii) approve, adopt and declare advisable this Agreement and the Mergers contemplated hereby (including the Second Merger), (iii) direct that this Agreement (including the Second Merger) be submitted for approval and adoption by the sole stockholder of Second Merger Sub and (iv) recommend the approval and adoption of this Agreement (including the Second Merger) by the sole stockholder of Second Merger Sub. (c) Parent shall take all actions necessary to cause, immediately following the consummation of the Merger on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, the Surviving Corporation to be merged with and into Second Merger Sub (the “Second Effective Time”), following which the separate existence of the Surviving Corporation shall cease and Second Merger Sub shall continue as the Surviving Entity after the Second Merger and as a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (provided that references to the Company or the Surviving Corporation for periods after the Second Effective Time shall include the Surviving Entity). At the Second Effective Time, the effect of the Second Merger shall be as provided in this Agreement, the Certificate of Merger with respect to the Second Merger and the applicable provisions of Delaware law. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, and subject thereto, at the Second Effective Time, all the property, rights, privileges, agreements, powers and franchises, debts, liabilities, duties and obligations of Second Merger Sub and Surviving Corporation shall become the property, rights, privileges, agreements, powers and franchises, debts, liabilities, duties and obligations of the Surviving Entity, which shall include the assumption by the Surviving Entity of any and all agreements, covenants, duties and obligations of Surviving Corporation to be performed after the Second Effective Time.
Plan of Merger This Agreement shall constitute an agreement of merger for purposes of the DGCL.