Each Party recognizes and acknowledges that it has received, or is in possession of, certain non-public, confidential, or proprietary Information (including trade secrets) of the other Party or its respective Group (the “ Confidential Information ”). Each Party agrees that it will not, that it will cause its Affiliates not to, and that it will use commercially reasonable efforts to cause each of its and their respective Representatives not to, for a period of five (5) years after the TCEH Effective Date, directly or indirectly, use Confidential Information of the other Party or its respective Group for its competitive, commercial or proprietary advantage, or disclose, divulge or publish, whether in written or unwritten form or through any medium, such Confidential Information publicly or to any Person or group of Persons for any reason or purpose whatsoever, except: (i) to authorized Representatives of such Party as reasonably necessary in the course of performing such Party’s obligations, or enforcing such Party’s rights, under this Agreement or the other Transaction Agreements and (ii) to the extent required to be disclosed by order of a Governmental Entity, or by subpoena, summons or legal process, or by Law, provided that, to the extent permitted by Law, the disclosing Party shall provide prompt notice of such disclosure to the applicable other Party, so that such Party whose Confidential Information is required to be disclosed may seek to obtain an order or other reliable assurance that confidential treatment will be accorded to designated portions of such Confidential Information, and the disclosing Party shall reasonably cooperate with the other Party in connection with such other Party’s efforts to obtain confidential treatment or similar reliable assurances that the relevant Confidential Information will remain confidential. For purposes of this Section 3.5, such Confidential Information shall not include any Confidential Information that (a) was or becomes generally available to the public other than as a result of a disclosure by such Person (or its Affiliates or Representatives) in violation of this Agreement, (b) becomes available to such Person or any of such Person’s Affiliates or Representatives after the date hereof from a source other than the other Party hereto or its respective Group or such Group’s Representatives, provided that such source is not known by such Person to be subject to an obligation of confidentiality (whether by agreement or otherwise) to the other Party with respect to the Information or (c) was independently developed by such Person (or its Affiliates) after the date hereof without reference to, incorporation of, or other use of any Confidential Information. The limitations in this Section 3.5 are in addition to, and not in lieu of, any other restrictions by which a Party may be bound (whether by contract or otherwise).