Common use of Marketmaking Clause in Contracts

Marketmaking. (i) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, a Supporting Party may Transfer any ownership in its Specified Claims and Interests, or any option thereon or any right or interest therein, to a Qualified Marketmaker (as defined below) that acquires Claims against or Interests in Mallinckrodt with the purpose and intent of acting as a Qualified Marketmaker for such Claims or Interests, and such Qualified Marketmaker shall not be required to execute and deliver to counsel to any Party a Joinder Agreement in respect of such Claims or Interests if (A) such Qualified Marketmaker subsequently Transfers such Claims or Interests within ten (10) Business Days of its acquisition to an entity that is not an affiliate, affiliated fund, or affiliated entity with a common investment advisor of such Qualified Marketmaker, (B) the transferee otherwise is a Permitted Transferee (including any requirement hereunder that such transferee execute a Joinder Agreement), and (C) the Transfer otherwise is a Permitted Transfer. To the extent that a Supporting Party is acting in its capacity as a Qualified Marketmaker, it may Transfer any right, title, or interest in any Specified Claims and Interests that such Supporting Party acquires in its capacity as a Qualified Marketmaker from a holder of such Claims or Interests who is not a Supporting Party without regard to the requirements set forth in Section 4(b) hereof. As used herein, the term “Qualified Marketmaker” means an entity that (a) holds itself out to the public or the applicable private markets as standing ready in the ordinary course of business to purchase from customers and sell to customers claims against Mallinckrodt (or enter with customers into long and short positions in claims against Mallinckrodt), in its capacity as a dealer or market maker in claims against Mallinckrodt and (b) is, in fact, regularly in the business of making a market in claims against issuers or borrowers (including debt securities or other debt).

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Sources: Restructuring Support Agreement (Mallinckrodt PLC), Restructuring Support Agreement