Obligation Absolute The obligation of Borrower to reimburse Agent and Revolving Lenders for payments made with respect to any Letter of Credit Obligation shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, without necessity of presentment, demand, protest or other formalities, and the obligations of each Revolving Lender to make payments to Agent with respect to Letters of Credit shall be unconditional and irrevocable. Such obligations of Borrower and Revolving Lenders shall be paid strictly in accordance with the terms hereof under all circumstances including the following:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Letter of Credit or the Agreement or the other Loan Documents or any other agreement;
(ii) the existence of any claim, setoff, defense or other right that Borrower or any of its Affiliates or any Lender may at any time have against a beneficiary or any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Persons or entities for whom any such transferee may be acting), Agent, any Lender, or any other Person, whether in connection with the Agreement, the Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or therein or any unrelated transaction (including any underlying transaction between Borrower or any of its Affiliates and the beneficiary for which the Letter of Credit was procured);
(iii) any draft, demand, certificate or any other document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(iv) payment by Agent (except as otherwise expressly provided in paragraph (g)(ii)(C) below) or any L/C Issuer under any Letter of Credit or guaranty thereof against presentation of a demand, draft or certificate or other document that does not comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit or such guaranty;
(v) any other circumstance or event whatsoever, that is similar to any of the foregoing; or
(vi) the fact that a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.
Retained Obligations Provided that the Closing occurs, Seller shall retain (a) all obligations and liabilities of Seller for the payment or improper payment of royalties, rentals and other similar payments under the Leases relating to the Subject Interests to the extent attributable to periods prior to the Effective Time; (b) all obligations of Seller under the Contracts for (i) overhead charges related to periods prior to the Effective Time, (ii) costs and expenses incurred prior to the Effective Time for goods and services provided prior to the Effective Time and (iii) other payment obligations that accrue and become due prior to the Effective Time; (c) all liability of Seller to Third Parties for personal injury or death to the extent occurring prior to the Effective Time as a result of the operation of the Assets; (d)(i) any and all income Taxes, franchise Taxes and similar Taxes imposed by any applicable law on Seller or any of its affiliates, or any combined, unitary, or consolidated group of which any of the foregoing is or was a member, (ii) Asset Taxes allocable to Seller pursuant to Section 9.02 taking into account, and without duplication of, such Asset Taxes effectively borne by Seller pursuant to Section 10.02(b)(iii) or Section 12.02, (iii) any Taxes imposed on or with respect to the ownership or operation of the Excluded Assets, and (iv) and any all other Taxes imposed on or with respect to the ownership or operation of the Assets for any tax period (or portion thereof) ending before the Effective Time; (e) all litigation existing as of the Closing Date, to the extent it relates to the period of time prior to the Effective Time; (f) any offsite disposal of hazardous materials by Seller from the Subject Interests to offsite locations occurring prior to the Effective Time; (g) Seller’s employment relationship with its employees and Seller’s employee benefit plans; (h) all liability of Seller under any credit facilities; (i) all liability of Seller under any hedging, swap, put, call, collar, future, derivative or similar arrangement; and (j) the Excluded Assets (collectively, the “Retained Obligations”, and the items specified in (c), (d), (f), (g), (h), (i), (j) and (k) herein, the “Specified Retained Obligations”).
Assumed Obligations As additional consideration for the Acquired Assets, Buyer shall assume the following obligations and liabilities of Seller (the “Assumed Obligations”):
(i) obligations and liabilities of Seller (if any) arising before (except to the extent such obligations are imposed on Seller under the Existing Lease) or after the Closing Date under Real Property Interests and Contracts assigned to Buyer pursuant to the provisions hereof or under Line Agreements, as provided in Section 2.08(b);
(ii) except for any income tax liability Seller may incur from Seller selling the Acquired Assets to Buyer, all obligations, commitments and liabilities of the Public Parties, of whatever nature, whether known or unknown, asserted or unasserted, fixed, absolute or contingent, matured or unmatured, accrued or unaccrued, liquidated or unliquidated or due or to become due, which relate to the condition of the Real Property and the other Acquired Assets arising before or after the Closing Date, or which relate exclusively to the ownership, condition or operation of the Acquired Assets arising before or after the Closing Date, including those arising under statutes, rules, regulations and effective or pending orders of Governmental Authorities;
(iii) all Environmental Liabilities of the Public Parties arising before or after the Closing Date which arise out of or are related in any way to the condition, ownership or use of the Real Property or the Line Agreements or any other Acquired Assets, including without limitation (A) any environmental contamination or other condition, or the presence of Hazardous Substances, on the Real Property or other Acquired Assets, whether such contamination or Hazardous Substances are located on or under the Real Property or other Acquired Assets or have migrated or will migrate from or to the Real Property or other Acquired Assets, and (B) the handling, use, treatment, removal, storage, decontamination, cleanup, transport (except for transportation as a common carrier) or disposal of, or exposure to, Hazardous Substances, whether such conditions and/or Environmental Liabilities are known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, contemplated or uncontemplated, and whether or not such conditions were caused by Seller or predecessors or Affiliates of Seller.
Excluded Obligations Notwithstanding anything to the contrary expressed or implied in the Debt Documents, the Security Agent shall not:
(a) be bound to enquire as to (i) whether or not any Default has occurred or (ii) the performance, default or any breach by a Debtor or a Security Grantor of its obligations under any of the Debt Documents;
(b) be bound to account to any other Party for any sum or the profit element of any sum received by it for its own account;
(c) be bound to disclose to any other person (including but not limited to any Secured Party) (i) any confidential information or (ii) any other information if disclosure would, or might in its reasonable opinion, constitute a breach of any law or be a breach of fiduciary duty; and
(d) have or be deemed to have any relationship of trust or agency with, any Debtor.
Payment Obligations Absolute The Company’s obligation during and after the Employment Period to pay the Executive the amounts and to make the benefit and other arrangements provided herein shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstances, including, without limitation, any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which the Company may have against him or her or anyone else. Except as provided in Section 15, all amounts payable by the Company hereunder shall be paid without notice or demand. Each and every payment made hereunder by the Company shall be final, and the Company will not seek to recover all or any part of such payment from the Executive, or from whomsoever may be entitled thereto, for any reason whatsoever.