definiens: Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio " shall have the meaningsspecified in the FME KGaA Credit Facility ( as defined in the TAA ) as in effe - cton the initial effective date thereof, but without giving effect to any amendment, waiver, termination, renewal, refunding, replacement, refinancing or othermodification to the FME KGaA Credit Facility made after such effective date .,'(b ) Each Company acknowledges that the Investors, the AdministrativeAgents and the Agent are entering into the transactions contemplated by the TAA in relianceupon the identity of NMC Funding as a separate legal entity from each Parent Group Member, the Companies and their other subsidiaries and affiliates ( coilectively, excluding NMa Funding, the ) . Each Company shall, and shall cause the Parent Group to, refrain fromtaking any action that would suggest to any creditor of any entity within the iarent Group thatNMC Funding and such entity within the Parent Group are anything other than separate legalentities . Neither Company shall hold out any entity within the Parent Group to thiid parties - asliable for the debts of NMC Funding, and neither Company shall at any time represent to anyPerson that any entity within the Parent Group owns any interest in the Receivablei o. uny of tneother assets intended to have been acquired by NMC Funding under the Receivables Agreement