No Borrower shall directly or indirectly, by operation of law or otherwise, (a) form or acquire any Subsidiary, (b) merge with, amalgamate with, consolidate with, acquire all or substantially all of the assets or capital stock of, or otherwise combine with or acquire, any Person; provided, that, the acquisition of any assets by a Borrower in connection with any Liquidation Sale pursuant to the Liquidation Sales Agreements shall not be violation of this covenant, or (c) liquidate, wind up, or dissolve itself (or suffer any liquidation or dissolution).