Common use of CONSENTS AND NOTIFICATIONS Clause in Contracts

CONSENTS AND NOTIFICATIONS. AT&T and Lucent shall use their reasonable best efforts to obtain, or cause to be obtained, to the extent necessary, the written consent of each Transferred Individual who is a party to an Individual Agreement and/or a participant in any AT&T Executive Benefit Plan, and of each Lucent Non-Employee Director who is a participant in any AT&T Non-Employee Director Plan, to the treatment of such Individual Agreement, Executive Benefit Plan and/or AT&T Non-Employee Director Plan, as applicable, in accordance with this Article VI, including the assumption by Lucent and the Lucent Entities, of sole responsibility for, and the release of AT&T and the AT&T Entities from, all Liabilities thereunder; provided, that no failure to seek or to obtain any such consent shall have any effect upon the obligations of Lucent and the Lucent Entities with respect to such Liabilities.