Each Lender agrees that it will not disclose, without the prior consent of Borrowers, confidential information with respect to Borrowers, any Obligor or any of their respective subsidiaries which is furnished pursuant to this Agreement and which is specifically designated as confidential in writing by Borrowers; provided , that , any Lender may disclose any such information (a) to its Affiliates and its and its Affiliates’ employees, auditors or counsel on a need-to-know basis, or to another Lender if the disclosing Lender or such disclosing Lender’s holding or parent company in its sole discretion determines that any such party should have access to such information, (b) as has become generally available to the public without a breach of this Section 13.7, (c) as may be required or appropriate in any report, statement or testimony submitted to or upon request of any Governmental Authority having or claiming to have jurisdiction over such Lender, (d) as may be required or appropriate in response to any summons or subpoena or in connection with any litigation, (e) in order to comply with any statute or regulation, and (f) to any prospective or actual assignee or Participant in connection with any contemplated transfer or participation of any of the Commitments or any interest therein by such Lender, provided , that , such assignee or Participant has agreed in writing to the confidentiality of any such confidential information in accordance with the terms of this Section 13.7. Anything contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the obligations of confidentiality contained herein, as they relate to the transactions contemplated hereby, shall not apply to the federal tax structure or federal tax treatment of such transactions, and each party hereto (and any employee, representative, or agent of any party hereto) may disclose to any and all Persons, without limitation of any kind, the federal tax structure and federal tax treatment of such transactions (including all written materials related to such tax structure and tax treatment). The preceding sentence is intended to cause the transactions contemplated hereby to not be treated as having been offered under conditions of confidentiality for purposes of Section 1.6011-4(b)(3) (or any successor provision) of the Treasury Regulations promulgated under Section 6011 of the United States Internal Revenue Code, and shall be construed in a manner consistent with such purpose. In addition, each party hereto acknowledges that it has no proprietary or exclusive rights to the tax structure of the transactions contemplated hereby or any tax matter or tax idea related thereto.