Amendment; Assignment This Agreement may be amended, superseded, canceled, renewed or extended, and the terms hereof may be waived, only by a written instrument signed by authorized representatives of the parties or, in the case of a waiver, by an authorized representative of the party waiving compliance. No such written instrument shall be effective unless it expressly recites that it is intended to amend, supersede, cancel, renew or extend this Agreement or to waive compliance with one or more of the terms hereof, as the case may be. Except for the Management Stockholder’s right to assign his or her rights under Section 4(a) or the Company’s right to assign its rights under Section 4(b), no party to this Agreement may assign any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement without the prior written consent of the other parties hereto.
Assignment Agreements Each Bank may, from time to time, with the consent of the Borrower and Agent (which will not in any instance be unreasonably withheld), sell or assign to other banking institutions rated "B" or better by Thomxxxx Xxxk Watch Service a pro rata part of all of the indebtedness evidenced by the Notes then owed by it together with an equivalent proportion of its obligation to make Loans hereunder and the credit risk incidental to the Letters of Credit pursuant to an Assignment Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit J attached hereto, executed by the assignor, the assignee and the Borrower, which agreements shall specify in each instance the portion of the indebtedness evidenced by the Notes which is to be assigned to each such assignor and the portion of the Commitments of the assignor and the credit risk incidental to the Letters of Credit (which portions shall be equivalent) to be assumed by it (the "Assignment Agreements"), provided that the Borrower may in its sole discretion withhold its consent to any assignment by a Bank to any assignee which has total capital and surplus of less than $200,000,000.00 or to any assignment by a Bank of less than all of its Commitments if as a result thereof the assignor will have Commitments hereunder of less than one half of its assigned Commitments or the assignee will have Commitments hereunder of less than $3,500,000.00 or, after giving effect thereto, there would be more than 10 Banks, further provided that nothing herein contained shall restrict, or be deemed to require any consent as a condition to, or require payment of any fee in connection with, any sale, discount or pledge by any Bank of any Note or other obligation hereunder to a Federal reserve bank. Upon the execution of each Assignment Agreement by the assignor, the assignee and the Borrower and consent thereto by the Agent (i) such assignee shall thereupon become a "Bank" for all purposes of this Agreement with a Commitment in the amount set forth in such Assignment Agreement and with all the rights, powers and obligations afforded a Bank hereunder, (ii) the assignor shall have no further liability for funding the portion of its Commitments assumed by such other Bank and (iii) the address for notices to such Bank shall be as specified in the Assignment Agreement, and the Borrower shall execute and deliver Notes to the assignee Bank in the amount of its Commitments and new Notes to the assignor Bank in the amount of its Commitments after giving effect to the reduction occasioned by such assignment, all such Notes to constitute "Notes" for all purposes of this Agreement, and there shall be paid to the Agent, as a condition to such assignment, an administration fee of $2,500 plus any out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred by it in effecting such assignment, such fee to be paid by the assignor or the assignee as they may mutually agree, but under no circumstances shall any portion of such fee be payable by or charged to the Borrower.
