Corporate Administration Services. The Company and the Corporate Administrator agree that the duties of the Corporate Administrator under this Agreement shall include the following: (a) administering the Company’s day-to-day operations, including supervision of the payment of the Company’s related fees and expenses, in each case including the specific duties set forth below; (b) giving on the Company’s behalf such notices and communications as the Company may from time to time be required to give under this Agreement and the other Program Documents or that the Corporate Administrator, in accordance with the Applicable Requirements, deems it appropriate for the Company to give; (c) maintaining the general accounting records of the Company and preparing such monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements as may be necessary or appropriate (it being understood that the Corporate Administrator shall not have any responsibility for the auditing of such financial statements other than to provide the same to the Company’s independent accountants for certification by such accountants); (d) retaining on behalf of and for the account of the Company an accounting firm to audit the Company’s year-end financial statements; (e) (i) preparing, or arranging for the preparation of, such income, franchise or other tax returns of the Company as shall be required to be filed by applicable law, (ii) filing, or arranging for the filing of, any such required tax returns, (iii) causing to be paid (but only from Company funds available for such purpose) any taxes required to be paid by the Company under applicable law, and (iv) not knowingly causing the Company to engage in any activity that would cause the Company to be subject to income or franchise tax on a net income basis by any taxing jurisdiction outside of the United States; (f) retaining on behalf of and for the account of the Company outside counsel to provide on behalf of the Company such services as the Corporate Administrator from time to time deems appropriate; (g) reviewing and analyzing any agreements entered into by the Company and establishing, in consultation with the Company, operating procedures to enable the Company to comply with the terms of such agreements; (h) providing recordkeeping and maintenance, as required, to maintain the Company’s limited liability company existence; (i) preparing resolutions for consideration by the Company’s board of directors in accordance with the Company’s limited liability company agreement; (j) preparing and having executed and filed all documents necessary to qualify the Company to do business in any jurisdiction in which such qualification is necessary or appropriate in connection with the Company’s issuance of Securities, purchase of Borrower Loans or other activities under the Program Documents; (k) maintain copies of all material agreements, contracts and other documents of the Company; (l) in conjunction with the Company’s counsel, monitoring (A) the federal and State licensing requirements that apply or may apply to the Company, including lender licensing requirements, and (B) the Company’s compliance with applicable consumer protection laws including, without limitation, the Consumer Credit Protection Act, the Truth-in-Lending Act, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Electronic Fund Transfer Act and the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, and arranging for the Company to obtain such licenses, to make such disclosures, to file such reports, and otherwise to take or refrain from taking all such actions, as will, to the best of the Corporate Administrator’s knowledge, result in compliance with all such licensing requirements and laws; (m) receiving notices on the Company’s behalf to the extent that any Program Document designates the Corporate Administrator as the person to whom notices to the Company thereunder are to be directed; (n) notifying the Company promptly, and in any event not more than one Business Day after becoming aware of the institution thereof, of the institution of any action, suit or proceeding against, or regulatory investigation of, the Company; (o) establishing and maintaining all necessary bank accounts of the Company and manage the Company’s cash in accordance with the terms and provisions of all material contracts of the Company; (p) confirming that the Account Bank at all times remains an Eligible Bank; and if the Account Bank ceases to be an Eligible Bank, arranging for the transfer of the FBO Account and any funds therein to an Eligible Bank; (q) to the extent that a Responsible Officer of the Corporate Administrator has actual knowledge of any failure of a party to a Core Document to perform any of its obligations to the Company, notifying the Company, as soon as practicable, of such failure; (r) from time to time taking at the Company’s expense such actions as the Company may reasonably request, or as the Corporate Administrator deems appropriate under the Corporate Administration Standard, to enforce the Company’s rights under any Program Document or document related thereto; (s) arranging for the execution by the Company of any documents and instruments necessary or incidental to the Program Documents and arranging for the execution of amendments to and waivers of the Program Documents deliverable by the Company thereunder or in connection therewith; provided that the Corporate Administrator shall not execute on behalf of the Company any amendment to this Agreement or waiver hereunder; (t) at the direction of the Company, from time to time designating employees and agents of the Corporate Administrator to as act as attorneys-in-fact for the Company; (u) otherwise assisting the Company to the extent provided in this Agreement to enable the Company to perform its obligations and duties under and in connection with, and to comply with the terms of, each of the Program Documents; (v) developing, planning and implementing marketing programs designed to increase traffic to Company websites, applications for Borrower Loans, Listings, fundings of Borrower Loans and Note issuances, whether in the nature of social media outreach, web-based advertising and search engine advertisements, email campaigns, direct mail campaigns, the production and publication of newsletters and blogs, participation in interviews, and participation in and presentations at conferences and through webcasts and webinars, including engagement of third party marketing and advertising companies or consultants, but in all cases in a manner that PMI determines is likely to minimize confusion in all markets about the legal separateness of PMI and the Company and PMI’s actions in these efforts being those of an agent of the Company and not as the owner or operator of the Prosper System or websites owned by the Company.
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Samples: Administration Agreement (Prosper Funding LLC), Administration Agreement (Prosper Funding LLC), Administration Agreement (Prosper Funding LLC)