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Company name: Germany undertakes that WestLB AG, the Verbundbank, the SPM bank and any (successor) company of the WestLB group will no longer use the name 'WestLB' after 30 June 2012, unless technical obstacles delay that change of name by up to three months. That exclusion applies also to any use of the word 'WestLB' as part of another name.