Common use of Creation and Funding of Issuer; Transfer of Loan Assets Clause in Contracts

Creation and Funding of Issuer; Transfer of Loan Assets. (a) The Issuer shall be governed pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Trust Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, between the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee (the “Original Trust Agreement”), upon the execution and delivery of the Original Trust Agreement and created by the filing by the Owner Trustee of an appropriately completed Certificate of Trust (as defined in the Original Trust Agreement) under the Statutory Trust Statute. The Trust Depositor, as settlor of the Issuer, shall fund and convey assets to the Issuer pursuant to the terms and provisions hereof. The Issuer shall be administered pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, the Administration Agreement and the Trust Agreement for the benefit of the Securityholders. Each of the Owner Trustee and the Administrator is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to conduct business dealings on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof and of the Trust Agreement and Administration Agreement. The initial Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to act on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with Section 5.02(g) and Section 5.02(h). The Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to perform the duties and obligations required to be performed by the Servicer under the Transaction Documents. (b) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, and in consideration of the Issuer’s delivery to or upon the order of the Trust Depositor of the Notes and the payment to the Trust Depositor of the net proceeds of the Notes, the Trust Depositor hereby sells, transfers, assigns, sets over and otherwise conveys to the Issuer all the right, title and interest of the Trust Depositor in and to the Initial Loan Assets. To the extent the purchase price paid to the Trust Depositor for any Loan Assets is less than the fair market value of such Loan Assets, the difference between such fair market value and such purchase price shall be deemed to be a capital contribution made by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer on the Closing Date in the case of the Initial Loans, as of the related Additional Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Additional Loans and as of the related Substitute Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Substitute Loans. For all purposes of this Agreement, any contributed Loan Assets shall be treated the same as Loan Assets sold for cash, including without limitation for purposes of Section 11.01. (c) The Seller and the Trust Depositor each acknowledge with respect to itself that the representations and warranties of the Seller in the Sale and Contribution Agreement and of the Trust Depositor in Section 3.01 through Section 3.04 hereof will run to and be for the benefit of the Issuer and the Trustees, and the Issuer and the Trustees may enforce directly (without joinder of the Trust Depositor when enforcing against the Seller) the repurchase obligations of the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, with respect to breaches of such representations and warranties that materially and adversely affect the interests of any Noteholder as set forth in the Sale and Contribution Agreement or in this Agreement; provided that neither the Owner Trustee nor the Trustee shall have a duty or obligation (i) to discover or make and attempt to discover, inquire about or investigate the breach of any of such representations or warranties, (ii) to determine if such breach materially and adversely affects the interests of any Noteholder or (iii) to enforce the repurchase obligations of the Seller and/or the Trust Depositor it being understood that a Trustee’s sole duty upon receipt by a Responsible Officer of actual knowledge or written notice of a breach that materially and adversely affects the interests of Noteholders shall be to make demand upon the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, to repurchase the Loan(s) unless the applicable Trustee receives written direction and indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it from the Super-Majority Noteholders specifying the additional action to be taken (or omitted) by the Trustee, including but not limited to commencing litigation against the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable. (d) The sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller or the Trust Depositor in connection with the Loan Assets, or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor relating to any unfunded commitment from the Seller or the Trust Depositor, (ii) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (iii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan Asset at the time such Loan Asset is sold hereunder. Without limiting the foregoing, (x) the Issuer does not assume any obligation to purchase any additional notes or loans under agreements governing the Loan Assets and (y) the sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Trust Depositor or the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller as lead agent or collateral agent under any Agented Loan or Co-Agented Loan. The Trust Depositor also hereby assigns to the Issuer all of the Trust Depositor’s right, title and interest (but none of its obligations) under the Sale and Contribution Agreement, including but not limited to the Trust Depositor’s right to exercise the remedies created by the Sale and Contribution Agreement. (e) The Seller, Trust Depositor and Issuer intend and agree that (i) the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor under the Sale and Contribution Agreement and the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer hereunder are intended to be a sale, conveyance and transfer of ownership of the Loan Assets, as the case may be, rather than the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing and (ii) such Loan Assets shall not be part of the Seller’s or the Trust Depositor’s estate in the event of a filing of a bankruptcy petition or other action by or against such Person under any Insolvency Law. In the event, however, that notwithstanding such intent and agreement, such transfers are deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure indebtedness, the Seller shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants to) the Trust Depositor and the Trust Depositor shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants) to the Issuer, as the case may be, a perfected first priority security interest in all right, title and interest of the Seller or of the Trust Depositor, respectively, in such Loan Assets and this Agreement shall constitute a security agreement under Applicable Law, securing the repayment of the purchase price paid hereunder, the obligations and/or interests represented by the Securities, in the order and priorities, and subject to the other terms and conditions of, this Agreement, the Indenture and the Trust Agreement, together with such other obligations or interests as may arise hereunder and thereunder in favor of the parties hereto and thereto. (f) If any such transfer of the Loan Assets is deemed to be the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing, the Trust Depositor may, to secure the Trust Depositor’s own borrowing under this Agreement (to the extent that the transfer of the Loan Assets thereunder is deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing) repledge and reassign (i) all or a portion of the Loan Assets pledged to Trust Depositor by the Seller and with respect to which the Trust Depositor has not released its security interest at the time of such pledge and assignment, and (ii) all proceeds thereof. Such repledge and reassignment may be made by Trust Depositor with or without a repledge and reassignment by Trust Depositor of its rights under any agreement with the Seller, and without further notice to or acknowledgment from the Seller. The Seller waives, to the extent permitted by applicable law, all claims, causes of action and remedies, whether legal or equitable (including any right of setoff), against Trust Depositor or any assignee of Trust Depositor relating to such action by Trust Depositor in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. (g) The Trust Depositor and the Issuer acknowledge and agree (and the Trustee is hereby directed to acknowledge and does acknowledge) that, solely for administrative convenience, any assignment agreement required to be executed and delivered in connection with the transfer of a Loan in accordance with the terms of related Underlying Loan Agreements may reflect that the Seller is assigning such Loan directly to the Issuer. Nothing in such assignment agreements shall be deemed to impair the transfers of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Sale and Contribution Agreement, as applicable, and the subsequent transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof.

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Samples: Sale and Servicing Agreement (Hercules Capital, Inc.), Sale and Servicing Agreement (Hercules Capital, Inc.)

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Creation and Funding of Issuer; Transfer of Loan Assets. (a) The Issuer shall be governed created pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Trust Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, between the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee (the “Original Trust Agreement”), upon the execution and delivery of the Original Trust Agreement and created by the filing by the Owner Trustee of an appropriately completed Certificate of Trust (as defined in the Original Trust Agreement) under the Statutory Trust Statute. The Trust Depositor, as settlor of the Issuer, shall fund and convey assets to the Issuer pursuant to the terms and provisions hereof. The Issuer shall be administered pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, the Administration Agreement and the Trust Agreement for the benefit of the Securityholders. Each of the The Owner Trustee and the Administrator is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to conduct business dealings on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof and of the Trust Agreement and Administration Agreement. The initial Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to act on behalf of the Issuer and the Owner Trustee in accordance with Section 5.02(e), Section 5.02(g) and Section 5.02(h). The Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered otherwise to perform the duties and obligations required to be performed by the Servicer under the Transaction Documents. (b) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, and in consideration of the Issuer’s delivery to or upon the order of the Trust Depositor of the Notes and the payment to the Trust Depositor of the net proceeds of the Notes, the Trust Depositor hereby sells, transfers, assigns, sets over and otherwise conveys to the Issuer, for a purchase price consisting of $294,027,800.39 in cash (less placement expenses and certain other expenses associated with the initial offer and sale of the Notes the proceeds of which represent consideration paid by the Issuer herein), $3,875,000 in aggregate principal amount of Class E Notes, $31,648,223 in aggregate principal amount of the Class F Note and the Certificate, all the right, title and interest of the Trust Depositor in and to the Initial Loan Assets. To the extent the purchase price paid to the Trust Depositor for any Loan Assets is less than the fair market value of such Loan AssetsLoan, the difference between such fair market value and such the purchase price shall be deemed to be a capital contribution made by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer on the Closing Date in the case of the Initial Loans, Loans and as of the related Additional Loan Cutoff Cut-Off Date in the case of any Additional Loans and as of the related Substitute Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any or Substitute Loans. For all purposes of this Agreement, any contributed Loan Assets shall be treated the same as Loan Assets sold for cash, including without limitation for purposes of Section 11.01. (c) The Seller Originator and the Trust Depositor each acknowledge with respect to itself that the representations and warranties of the Seller Originator in the Sale and Contribution Agreement and of the Trust Depositor in Section 3.01 through Section 3.04 hereof will run to and be for the benefit of the Issuer and the Trustees, and the Issuer and the Trustees may enforce directly (without joinder of the Trust Depositor when enforcing against the Seller) Originator), the repurchase obligations of the Seller Originator or Trust Depositor, as applicable, with respect to breaches of such representations and warranties that materially and adversely affect the interests of any Noteholder as set forth in the Sale and Contribution Agreement or in this Agreement; provided that neither the Owner Trustee nor the Trustee shall have a duty or obligation (i) to discover or make and attempt to discover, inquire about or investigate the breach of any of such representations or warranties, (ii) to determine if such breach materially and adversely affects the interests of any Noteholder or (iii) to enforce the repurchase obligations of the Seller and/or the Trust Depositor it being understood that a Trustee’s sole duty upon receipt by a Responsible Officer of actual knowledge or written notice of a breach that materially and adversely affects the interests of Noteholders shall be to make demand upon the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, to repurchase the Loan(s) unless the applicable Trustee receives written direction and indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it from the Super-Majority Noteholders specifying the additional action to be taken (or omitted) by the Trustee, including but not limited to commencing litigation against the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable. (d) The sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller or the Trust Depositor in connection with the Loan Assets, or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor relating to any unfunded commitment from the Seller or the Trust Depositor, (ii) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (iii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan Asset at the time such Loan Asset is sold hereunder. Without limiting the foregoing, (x) the Issuer does not assume any obligation to purchase any additional notes or loans under agreements governing the Loan Assets and (y) the sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Trust Depositor or the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller Originator as lead agent, collateral agent or collateral paying agent under any Agented Loan or Co-Agented LoanNote. The Trust Depositor also hereby assigns to the Issuer all of the Trust Depositor’s right, title and interest (but none of its obligations) under the Loan Sale and Contribution Agreement, including but not limited to the Trust Depositor’s right to exercise the remedies created by the Loan Sale and Contribution Agreement. (e) The SellerOriginator, Trust Depositor and Issuer intend and agree that (i) the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor under the Sale and Contribution Agreement and the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer hereunder are intended to be a sale, conveyance and transfer of ownership of the Loan Assets, as the case may be, rather than the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing and (ii) such Loan Assets shall not be part of the SellerOriginator’s or the Trust Depositor’s estate in the event of a filing of a bankruptcy petition or other action by or against such Person under any Insolvency Law. In the event, however, that notwithstanding such intent and agreement, such transfers are deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure indebtedness, the Seller Originator shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants to) the Trust Depositor and the Trust Depositor shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grantsgrants to) to the Issuer, as the case may be, a perfected first priority security interest in all right, title and interest of the Seller Originator or of the Trust Depositor, respectively, in such Loan Assets and this Agreement shall constitute a security agreement under Applicable Law, securing the repayment of the purchase price paid hereunder, the obligations and/or interests represented by the Securities, in the order and priorities, and subject to the other terms and conditions of, this Agreement, the Indenture and the Trust Agreement, together with such other obligations or interests as may arise hereunder and thereunder in favor of the parties hereto and thereto. (f) If any such transfer of the Loan Assets is deemed to be the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing, the Trust Depositor may, to secure the Trust Depositor’s own borrowing under this Agreement (to the extent that the transfer of the Loan Assets thereunder is deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing) repledge and reassign (i) all or a portion of the Loan Assets pledged to Trust Depositor by the Seller Originator and with respect to which the Trust Depositor has not released its security interest at the time of such pledge and assignment, and (ii) all proceeds thereof. Such repledge and reassignment may be made by Trust Depositor with or without a repledge and reassignment by Trust Depositor of its rights under any agreement with the SellerOriginator, and without further notice to or acknowledgment from the SellerOriginator. The Seller Originator waives, to the extent permitted by applicable law, all claims, causes of action and remedies, whether legal or equitable (including any right of setoff), against Trust Depositor or any assignee of Trust Depositor relating to such action by Trust Depositor in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. (g) The Trust Depositor and the Issuer acknowledge and agree (and the Trustee is hereby directed to acknowledge and does acknowledge) that, solely for administrative convenience, any assignment agreement required to be executed and delivered in connection with the transfer of a Loan in accordance with the terms of related Underlying Loan Agreements may reflect that the Seller is assigning such Loan directly to the Issuer. Nothing in such assignment agreements shall be deemed to impair the transfers of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Sale and Contribution Agreement, as applicable, and the subsequent transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof.

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Samples: Sale and Servicing Agreement (NewStar Financial, Inc.)

Creation and Funding of Issuer; Transfer of Loan Assets. (a) The Issuer shall be governed created pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Trust Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, between the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee (the “Original Trust Agreement”), upon the execution and delivery of the Original Trust Agreement and created by the filing by the Owner Trustee of an appropriately completed Certificate of Trust (as defined in the Original Trust Agreement) under the Statutory Trust Statute. The Trust Depositor, as settlor of the Issuer, shall fund and convey assets to the Issuer pursuant to the terms and provisions hereof. The Issuer shall be administered pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, the Administration Agreement and the Trust Agreement for the benefit of the SecurityholdersSecurityholders and the Hedge Counterparties. Each of the The Owner Trustee and the Administrator is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to conduct business dealings on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof and of the Trust Agreement and Administration Agreement. The initial Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to act on behalf of the Issuer and the Owner Trustee in accordance with Section 5.02(g5.02(e) and Section 5.02(h). The Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to perform the duties and obligations required to be performed by the Servicer under the Transaction Documents. (b) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, and in consideration of the Issuer’s delivery to or upon the order of the Trust Depositor of the Notes and the payment to the Trust Depositor of the net proceeds of the Notes, the Trust Depositor hereby sells, transfers, assigns, sets over and otherwise conveys to the Issuer, for a purchase price consisting of $428,263,928.14 in cash (less placement expenses and certain other expenses associated with the initial offer and sale of the Notes the proceeds of which represent the consideration paid by the Issuer herein), the Class E Note and the Certificate, all the right, title and interest of the Trust Depositor in and to the Initial following, including but not limited to, all accounts, cash and currency, chattel paper, electronic chattel paper, tangible chattel paper, copyrights, copyright licenses, equipment, fixtures, general intangibles, instruments, commercial tort claims, deposit accounts, inventory, investment property, letter of credit rights, software, supporting obligations, accessions, and other property consisting of, arising out of, or related to the following (the Trust Depositor's interest in items (i)-(vi) below, being collectively referred to herein as the "Loan Assets" but in each case shall exclude any Retained Interest): (i) the Initial Loans, all payments paid in respect thereof and all monies due, to become due or paid in respect thereof accruing on and after the Initial Cut-Off Date and all Liquidation Proceeds and recoveries thereon, in each case as they arise after the Initial Cut-Off Date, but not including the Retained Interest or Interest Collections received prior to November 10, 2003; (ii) all security interests and Liens and Collateral subject thereto from time to time purporting to secure payment by Obligors under such Loans; (iii) all guaranties, indemnities and warranties, and other agreements or arrangements of whatever character from time to time supporting or securing payment of such Loans; (iv) the Trust Accounts, each Obligor Lock-Box, each Obligor Lock-Box Account, the Lock-Box, the Lock-Box Account, and together with all cash and investments in each of the foregoing; (v) all collections and records (including computer records) with respect to the foregoing; (vi) all documents relating to the Loan Files; and (vii) all income, payments, proceeds and other benefits of any and all of the foregoing. To the extent the purchase price paid to the Trust Depositor for any Loan Assets is less than the fair market value of such Loan AssetsLoan, the difference between such fair market value and such the purchase price shall be deemed to be a capital contribution made by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer on the Closing Date in the case of the Initial Loans, as of the related Additional Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Additional Loans and as of the related Substitute Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Substitute Loans. For all purposes of this Agreement, any contributed Loan Assets shall be treated the same as Loan Assets sold for cash, including without limitation for purposes of Section 11.01relevant Transfer Date. (c) The Seller Originator and the Trust Depositor each acknowledge with respect to itself that the representations and warranties of the Seller in the Sale and Contribution Agreement and of the Trust Depositor in Section 3.01 3.01(a) through Section 3.04 hereof 3.01(e) will run to and be for the benefit of the Issuer Issuer, the Trustees and the TrusteesHedge Counterparties, and the Issuer and the Trustees may enforce enforce, directly (without joinder of the Trust Depositor when enforcing against the Seller) Depositor, the repurchase obligations of the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, Originator with respect to breaches of such representations and warranties that materially and adversely affect the interests of any Noteholder as set forth herein and in the Sale and Contribution Agreement or in this Agreement; provided that neither the Owner Trustee nor the Trustee shall have a duty or obligation (i) to discover or make and attempt to discover, inquire about or investigate the breach of any of such representations or warranties, (ii) to determine if such breach materially and adversely affects the interests of any Noteholder or (iii) to enforce the repurchase obligations of the Seller and/or the Trust Depositor it being understood that a Trustee’s sole duty upon receipt by a Responsible Officer of actual knowledge or written notice of a breach that materially and adversely affects the interests of Noteholders shall be to make demand upon the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, to repurchase the Loan(s) unless the applicable Trustee receives written direction and indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it from the Super-Majority Noteholders specifying the additional action to be taken (or omitted) by the Trustee, including but not limited to commencing litigation against the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicableSection 11.01. (d) The sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller or the Trust Depositor in connection with the Loan Assets, or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor relating to any unfunded commitment from the Seller or the Trust Depositor, (ii) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (iii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan Asset at the time such Loan Asset is sold hereunder. Without limiting the foregoing, (x) the Issuer does not assume any obligation to purchase any additional notes or loans under agreements governing the Loan Assets and (y) the sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Trust Depositor or the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller as lead agent Originator in connection with the Loan Assets, or collateral agent under any Agented agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, any obligation to any Obligor, if any, not financed by the Originator, or (i) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (ii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan or Co-Agented Loanat the time such Loan is sold hereunder. The Trust Depositor also hereby assigns to the Issuer all of the Trust Depositor’s 's right, title and interest (but none of its obligations) under the Loan Sale and Contribution Agreement, including but not limited to the Trust Depositor’s 's right to exercise the remedies created by the Loan Sale and Contribution Agreement. (e) The SellerOriginator, Trust Depositor and Issuer intend and agree that (i) the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor under the Sale and Contribution Agreement and the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer hereunder are intended to be a sale, conveyance and transfer of ownership of the Loan Assets, as the case may be, rather than the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing and (ii) such Loan Assets shall not be part of the Seller’s Originator's or the Trust Depositor’s 's estate in the event of a filing of a bankruptcy petition or other action by or against such Person under any Insolvency Law. In the event, however, that notwithstanding such intent and agreement, such transfers are deemed to be of a mere granting of a security interest to secure indebtedness, the Seller Originator shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants to) the Trust Depositor and the Trust Depositor shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants) to the Issuer, as the case may be, a perfected first priority security interest in all right, title and interest of the Seller or of the Trust Depositor, respectively, in such Loan Assets respectively and this Agreement shall constitute a security agreement under Applicable Requirements of Law, securing the repayment of the purchase price paid hereunder, the obligations and/or interests represented by the SecuritiesSecurities and the obligations of the Issuer under the Hedge Transactions and the Hedge Agreements, in the order and priorities, and subject to the other terms and conditions of, this Agreement, the Indenture Indenture, the Trust Agreement and the Trust AgreementHedge Agreements, together with such other obligations or interests as may arise hereunder and thereunder in favor of the parties hereto and thereto. (f) If any such transfer of the Loan Assets is deemed to be the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing, the Trust Depositor may, to secure the Trust Depositor’s 's own borrowing under this Agreement (to the extent that the transfer of the Loan Assets thereunder is deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing) repledge and reassign (i1) all or a portion of the Loan Assets pledged to Trust Depositor by the Seller Originator and with respect to which the Trust Depositor has not released its security interest at the time of such pledge and assignment, and (ii2) all proceeds thereof. Such repledge and reassignment may be made by Trust Depositor with or without a repledge and reassignment by Trust Depositor of its rights under any agreement with the SellerOriginator, and without further notice to or acknowledgment from the SellerOriginator. The Seller Originator waives, to the extent permitted by applicable law, all claims, causes of action and remedies, whether legal or equitable (including any right of setoff), against Trust Depositor or any assignee of Trust Depositor relating to such action by Trust Depositor in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. (g) The Trust Depositor and the Issuer acknowledge and agree (and the Trustee is hereby directed to acknowledge and does acknowledge) that, solely for administrative convenience, any assignment agreement required to be executed and delivered in connection with the transfer of a Loan in accordance with the terms of related Underlying Loan Agreements may reflect that the Seller is assigning such Loan directly to the Issuer. Nothing in such assignment agreements shall be deemed to impair the transfers of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Sale and Contribution Agreement, as applicable, and the subsequent transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof.

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Samples: Sale and Servicing Agreement (Capitalsource Inc)

Creation and Funding of Issuer; Transfer of Loan Assets. (a) The Issuer shall be governed pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Trust Agreement, dated as of the Closing DateDecember 19, 2012, between the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee (the “Original Trust Agreement”), upon the execution and delivery of the Original Trust Agreement and created by the filing by the Owner Trustee of an appropriately completed Certificate of Trust (as defined in the Original Trust Agreement) under the Statutory Trust Statute. The Trust Depositor, as settlor of the Issuer, shall fund and convey assets to the Issuer pursuant to the terms and provisions hereof. The Issuer shall be administered pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, the Administration Agreement and the Trust Agreement for the benefit of the Securityholders. Each of the Owner Trustee and the Administrator is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to conduct business dealings on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof and of the Trust Agreement and Administration Agreement. The initial Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to act on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with Section 5.02(g) and Section 5.02(h). The Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to perform the duties and obligations required to be performed by the Servicer under the Transaction Documents. (b) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, and in consideration of the Issuer’s delivery to or upon the order of the Trust Depositor of the Notes and the payment to the Trust Depositor of the net proceeds of the Notes, the Trust Depositor hereby sells, transfers, assigns, sets over and otherwise conveys to the Issuer all the right, title and interest of the Trust Depositor in and to the Initial Loan Assets. To the extent the purchase price paid to the Trust Depositor for any Loan Assets is less than the fair market value of such Loan Assets, the difference between such fair market value and such purchase price shall be deemed to be a capital contribution made by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer on the Closing Date in the case of the Initial Loans, as of the related Additional Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Additional Loans and as of the related Substitute Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Substitute Loans. For all purposes of this Agreement, any contributed Loan Assets shall be treated the same as Loan Assets sold for cash, including without limitation for purposes of Section 11.01. (c) The Seller and the Trust Depositor each acknowledge with respect to itself that the representations and warranties of the Seller in the Sale and Contribution Agreement and of the Trust Depositor in Section 3.01 through Section 3.04 hereof will run to and be for the benefit of the Issuer and the Trustees, and the Issuer and the Trustees may enforce directly (without joinder of the Trust Depositor when enforcing against the Seller) the repurchase obligations of the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, with respect to breaches of such representations and warranties that materially and adversely affect the interests of any Noteholder as set forth in the Sale and Contribution Agreement or in this Agreement; provided that neither the Owner Trustee nor the Trustee shall have a duty or obligation (i) to discover or make and attempt to discover, inquire about or investigate the breach of any of such representations or warranties, (ii) to determine if such breach materially and adversely affects the interests of any Noteholder or (iii) to enforce the repurchase obligations of the Seller and/or the Trust Depositor it being understood that a Trustee’s sole duty upon receipt by a Responsible Officer of actual knowledge or written notice of a breach that materially and adversely affects the interests of Noteholders shall be to make demand upon the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, to repurchase the Loan(s) unless the applicable Trustee receives written direction and indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it from the Super-Majority Noteholders specifying the additional action to be taken (or omitted) by the Trustee, including but not limited to commencing litigation against the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable. (d) The sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller or the Trust Depositor in connection with the Loan Assets, or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor relating to any unfunded commitment from the Seller or the Trust Depositor, (ii) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (iii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan Asset at the time such Loan Asset is sold hereunder. Without limiting the foregoing, (x) the Issuer does not assume any obligation to purchase any additional notes or loans under agreements governing the Loan Assets and (y) the sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Trust Depositor or the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller as lead agent or collateral agent under any Agented Loan or Co-Agented Loan. The Trust Depositor also hereby assigns to the Issuer all of the Trust Depositor’s right, title and interest (but none of its obligations) under the Sale and Contribution Agreement, including but not limited to the Trust Depositor’s right to exercise the remedies created by the Sale and Contribution Agreement. (e) The Seller, Trust Depositor and Issuer intend and agree that (i) the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor under the Sale and Contribution Agreement and the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer hereunder are intended to be a sale, conveyance and transfer of ownership of the Loan Assets, as the case may be, rather than the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing and (ii) such Loan Assets shall not be part of the Seller’s or the Trust Depositor’s estate in the event of a filing of a bankruptcy petition or other action by or against such Person under any Insolvency Law. In the event, however, that notwithstanding such intent and agreement, such transfers are deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure indebtedness, the Seller shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants to) the Trust Depositor and the Trust Depositor shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants) to the Issuer, as the case may be, a perfected first priority security interest in all right, title and interest of the Seller or of the Trust Depositor, respectively, in such Loan Assets and this Agreement shall constitute a security agreement under Applicable Law, securing the repayment of the purchase price paid hereunder, the obligations and/or interests represented by the Securities, in the order and priorities, and subject to the other terms and conditions of, this Agreement, the Indenture and the Trust Agreement, together with such other obligations or interests as may arise hereunder and thereunder in favor of the parties hereto and thereto. (f) If any such transfer of the Loan Assets is deemed to be the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing, the Trust Depositor may, to secure the Trust Depositor’s own borrowing under this Agreement (to the extent that the transfer of the Loan Assets thereunder is deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing) repledge and reassign (i) all or a portion of the Loan Assets pledged to Trust Depositor by the Seller and with respect to which the Trust Depositor has not released its security interest at the time of such pledge and assignment, and (ii) all proceeds thereof. Such repledge and reassignment may be made by Trust Depositor with or without a repledge and reassignment by Trust Depositor of its rights under any agreement with the Seller, and without further notice to or acknowledgment from the Seller. The Seller waives, to the extent permitted by applicable law, all claims, causes of action and remedies, whether legal or equitable (including any right of setoff), against Trust Depositor or any assignee of Trust Depositor relating to such action by Trust Depositor in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. (g) The Trust Depositor and the Issuer acknowledge and agree (and the Trustee is hereby directed to acknowledge and does acknowledge) that, solely for administrative convenience, any assignment agreement required to be executed and delivered in connection with the transfer of a Loan in accordance with the terms of related Underlying Loan Agreements may reflect that the Seller is assigning such Loan directly to the Issuer. Nothing in such assignment agreements shall be deemed to impair the transfers of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Sale and Contribution Agreement, as applicable, Agreement and the subsequent transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof.

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Samples: Sale and Servicing Agreement (Hercules Technology Growth Capital Inc)

Creation and Funding of Issuer; Transfer of Loan Assets. (a) The Issuer shall be governed created pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Trust Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, between the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee (the “Original Trust Agreement”), upon the execution and delivery of the Original Trust Agreement and created by the filing by the Owner Trustee of an appropriately completed Certificate of Trust (as defined in the Original Trust Agreement) under the Statutory Business Trust Statute. The Trust Depositor, as settlor of the Issuer, shall fund and convey assets to the Issuer pursuant to the terms and provisions hereof. The Issuer shall be administered pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, the Administration Agreement and the Trust Agreement for the benefit of the SecurityholdersSecurityholders and the Swap Counterparties. Each of the The Owner Trustee and the Administrator is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to conduct business dealings on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof and of the Trust Agreement and Administration Agreement. The initial Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to act on behalf of the Issuer and the Owner Trustee in accordance with Section 5.02(gsubsections 5.02(e) and Section 5.02(h). The Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to perform the duties and obligations required to be performed by the Servicer under the Transaction Documents(h) hereof. (b) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, and in consideration of the Issuer’s delivery to or upon the order of the Trust Depositor of the Notes and the payment to the Trust Depositor of the net proceeds of the Notes, the Trust Depositor hereby sells, transfers, assigns, sets over and otherwise conveys to the Issuer, for a purchase price consisting of $224,353,202.70 in cash (less placement expenses and certain other expenses associated with the initial offer and sale of the Notes the proceeds of which represent the consideration paid by the Issuer herein), the Class C Notes, the Class D Notes and the Certificate, all the right, title and interest of the Trust Depositor in and to the Initial following, including but not limited to, all accounts, cash and currency, chattel paper, electronic chattel paper, tangible chattel paper, copyrights, copyright licenses, equipment, fixtures, general intangibles, instruments, commercial tort claims, deposit accounts, inventory, investment property, letter of credit rights, software, supporting obligations, accessions, and other property consisting of, arising out of, or related to the following (the Trust Depositor's interest in items (i)-(vi) below, being collectively referred to herein as the "Loan Assets. To the extent the purchase price paid to the Trust Depositor for any Loan Assets is less than the fair market value of such Loan Assets, the difference between such fair market value and such purchase price shall be deemed to be a capital contribution made by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer on the Closing Date in the case of "): (i) the Initial Loans, all payments paid in respect thereof and all monies due, to become due or paid in respect thereof accruing on and after the Initial Cut-Off Date and all Liquidation Proceeds and recoveries thereon, in each case as they arise after the Initial Cut-Off Date, but not including the Retained Interest or Interest Collections received prior to the Initial Cut-Off Date; (ii) all security interests and liens and Collateral subject thereto from time to time purporting to secure payment by Obligors under such Loans; (iii) all guaranties, indemnities and warranties, and other agreements or arrangements of whatever character from time to time supporting or securing payment of such Loans; (iv) the Trust Accounts, each Obligor Lock-Box, each Obligor Lock-Box Account, the Lock-Box, the Lock-Box Account, and together with all cash and investments in each of the related Additional foregoing; (v) all collections and records (including computer records) with respect to the foregoing; (vi) all documents relating to the Loan Cutoff Date in the case Files; and (vii) all income, payments, proceeds and other benefits of any Additional Loans and as all of the related Substitute Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Substitute Loans. For all purposes of this Agreement, any contributed Loan Assets shall be treated the same as Loan Assets sold for cash, including without limitation for purposes of Section 11.01foregoing. (c) The Seller Originator and the Trust Depositor each acknowledge with respect to itself that the representations and warranties of the Seller in the Sale and Contribution Agreement and of the Trust Depositor in Section 3.01 through Section Sections 3.01, 3.02, 3.03, 3.04 hereof and 3.05 will run to and be for the benefit of the Issuer Issuer, the Trustees and the TrusteesSwap Counterparties, and the Issuer and the Trustees may enforce enforce, directly (without joinder of the Trust Depositor when enforcing against the Seller) Depositor, the repurchase obligations of the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, Originator with respect to breaches of such representations and warranties that materially and adversely affect the interests of any Noteholder as set forth herein and in the Sale and Contribution Agreement or in this Agreement; provided that neither the Owner Trustee nor the Trustee shall have a duty or obligation (i) to discover or make and attempt to discover, inquire about or investigate the breach of any of such representations or warranties, (ii) to determine if such breach materially and adversely affects the interests of any Noteholder or (iii) to enforce the repurchase obligations of the Seller and/or the Trust Depositor it being understood that a Trustee’s sole duty upon receipt by a Responsible Officer of actual knowledge or written notice of a breach that materially and adversely affects the interests of Noteholders shall be to make demand upon the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, to repurchase the Loan(s) unless the applicable Trustee receives written direction and indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it from the Super-Majority Noteholders specifying the additional action to be taken (or omitted) by the Trustee, including but not limited to commencing litigation against the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicableSection 11.01. (d) The sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller or the Trust Depositor in connection with the Loan Assets, or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor relating to any unfunded commitment from the Seller or the Trust Depositor, (ii) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (iii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan Asset at the time such Loan Asset is sold hereunder. Without limiting the foregoing, (x) the Issuer does not assume any obligation to purchase any additional notes or loans under agreements governing the Loan Assets and (y) the sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Trust Depositor or the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller as lead agent Originator in connection with the Loan Assets, or collateral agent under any Agented agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, any obligation to any Obligor, if any, not financed by the Originator, or (1) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (2) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan or Co-Agented Loanat the time such Loan is sold hereunder. The Trust Depositor also hereby assigns to the Issuer all of the Trust Depositor’s 's right, title and interest (but none of its obligations) under the Loan Sale and Contribution Agreement, including but not limited to the Trust Depositor’s 's right to exercise the remedies created by the Loan Sale and Contribution Agreement. (e) The SellerOriginator, Trust Depositor and Issuer intend and agree that (i) the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor under the Sale and Contribution Agreement and the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer hereunder are intended to be a sale, conveyance and transfer of ownership of the Loan Assets, as the case may be, rather than the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing and (ii) such Loan Assets shall not be part of the Seller’s Originator's or the Trust Depositor’s 's estate in the event of a filing of a bankruptcy petition or other action by or against such Person under any Insolvency Law. In the event, however, that notwithstanding such intent and agreement, such transfers are deemed to be of a mere granting of a security interest to secure indebtedness, the Seller Originator shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants to) the Trust Depositor and the Trust Depositor shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants) to the Issuer, as the case may be, a perfected first priority security interest in all right, title and interest of the Seller or of the Trust Depositor, respectively, in such Loan Assets respectively and this Agreement shall constitute a security agreement under Applicable Requirements of Law, securing the repayment of the purchase price paid hereunder, the obligations and/or interests represented by the SecuritiesSecurities and the obligations of the Issuer under the Swap Transactions and the Swaps, in the order and priorities, and subject to the other terms and conditions of, this Agreement, the Indenture Indenture, the Trust Agreement and the Trust AgreementSwaps, together with such other obligations or interests as may arise hereunder and thereunder in favor of the parties hereto and thereto. (f) If any such transfer of the Loan Assets is deemed to be the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing, the Trust Depositor may, to secure the Trust Depositor’s 's own borrowing under this Agreement (to the extent that the transfer of the Loan Assets thereunder is deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing) repledge and reassign (i1) all or a portion of the Loan Assets pledged to Trust Depositor by the Seller Originator and with respect to which the Trust Depositor has not released its security interest at the time of such pledge and assignment, and (ii2) all proceeds thereof. Such repledge and reassignment may be made by Trust Depositor with or without a repledge and reassignment by Trust Depositor of its rights under any agreement with the SellerOriginator, and without further notice to or acknowledgment from the SellerOriginator. The Seller Originator waives, to the extent permitted by applicable law, all claims, causes of action and remedies, whether legal or equitable (including any right of setoff), against Trust Depositor or any assignee of Trust Depositor relating to such action by Trust Depositor in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. (g) The Trust Depositor and the Issuer acknowledge and agree (and the Trustee is hereby directed to acknowledge and does acknowledge) that, solely for administrative convenience, any assignment agreement required to be executed and delivered in connection with the transfer of a Loan in accordance with the terms of related Underlying Loan Agreements may reflect that the Seller is assigning such Loan directly to the Issuer. Nothing in such assignment agreements shall be deemed to impair the transfers of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Sale and Contribution Agreement, as applicable, and the subsequent transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof.

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Samples: Sale and Servicing Agreement (Capitalsource Inc)

Creation and Funding of Issuer; Transfer of Loan Assets. (a) The Issuer shall be governed created pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Trust Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, between the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee (the “Original Trust Agreement”), upon the execution and delivery of the Original Trust Agreement and created by the filing by the Owner Trustee of an appropriately completed Certificate of Trust (as defined in the Original Trust Agreement) under the Statutory Trust Statute. The Trust Depositor, as settlor of the Issuer, shall fund and convey assets to the Issuer pursuant to the terms and provisions hereof. The Issuer shall be administered pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, the Administration Agreement and the Trust Agreement for the benefit of the SecurityholdersSecurityholders and the Hedge Counterparties. Each of the The Owner Trustee and the Administrator is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to conduct business dealings on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof and of the Trust Agreement and Administration Agreement. The initial Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to act on behalf of the Issuer and the Owner Trustee in accordance with Section 5.02(g5.02(e) and Section 5.02(h). The Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to perform the duties and obligations required to be performed by the Servicer under the Transaction Documents. (b) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, and in consideration of the Issuer’s delivery to or upon the order of the Trust Depositor of the Notes and the payment to the Trust Depositor of the net proceeds of the Notes, the Trust Depositor hereby sells, transfers, assigns, sets over and otherwise conveys to the Issuer, for a purchase price consisting of $756,598,890.23 in cash (less placement expenses and certain other expenses associated with the initial offer and sale of the Notes the proceeds of which represent the consideration paid by the Issuer herein), the Class E Note and the Certificate, all the right, title and interest of the Trust Depositor in and to the Initial following, including but not limited to, all accounts, cash and currency, chattel paper, electronic chattel paper, tangible chattel paper, copyrights, copyright licenses, equipment, fixtures, general intangibles, instruments, commercial tort claims, deposit accounts, inventory, investment property, letter of credit rights, software, supporting obligations, accessions, and other property consisting of, arising out of, or related to the following (the Trust Depositor’s interest in items (i)—(vi) below, being collectively referred to herein as the “Loan Assets” but in each case shall exclude any Retained Interest): (i) the Initial Loans, all payments paid in respect thereof and all monies due, to become due or paid in respect thereof accruing on and after the Initial Cut—Off Date and all Liquidation Proceeds and recoveries thereon, in each case as they arise after the Initial Cut—Off Date, but not including the Retained Interest or Interest Collections received prior to June 1, 2004; (ii) all security interests and Liens and Collateral subject thereto from time to time purporting to secure payment by Obligors under such Loans; (iii) all guaranties, indemnities and warranties, and other agreements or arrangements of whatever character from time to time supporting or securing payment of such Loans; (iv) the Trust Accounts, each Obligor Lock—Box, each Obligor Lock—Box Account, the Lock—Box, the Lock—Box Account, and together with all cash and investments in each of the foregoing; (v) all collections and records (including computer records) with respect to the foregoing; (vi) all documents relating to the Loan Files; and (vii) all income, payments, proceeds and other benefits of any and all of the foregoing. To the extent the purchase price paid to the Trust Depositor for any Loan Assets is less than the fair market value of such Loan AssetsLoan, the difference between such fair market value and such the purchase price shall be deemed to be a capital contribution made by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer on the Closing Date in the case of the Initial Loans, as of the related Additional Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Additional Loans and as of the related Substitute Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Substitute Loans. For all purposes of this Agreement, any contributed Loan Assets shall be treated the same as Loan Assets sold for cash, including without limitation for purposes of Section 11.01relevant Transfer Date. (c) The Seller Originator and the Trust Depositor each acknowledge with respect to itself that the representations and warranties of the Seller in the Sale and Contribution Agreement and of the Trust Depositor in Section 3.01 3.01(a) through Section 3.04 hereof 3.01(e) will run to and be for the benefit of the Issuer Issuer, the Trustees and the TrusteesHedge Counterparties, and the Issuer and the Trustees may enforce enforce, directly (without joinder of the Trust Depositor when enforcing against the Seller) Depositor, the repurchase obligations of the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, Originator with respect to breaches of such representations and warranties that materially and adversely affect the interests of any Noteholder as set forth herein and in the Sale and Contribution Agreement or in this Agreement; provided that neither the Owner Trustee nor the Trustee shall have a duty or obligation (i) to discover or make and attempt to discover, inquire about or investigate the breach of any of such representations or warranties, (ii) to determine if such breach materially and adversely affects the interests of any Noteholder or (iii) to enforce the repurchase obligations of the Seller and/or the Trust Depositor it being understood that a Trustee’s sole duty upon receipt by a Responsible Officer of actual knowledge or written notice of a breach that materially and adversely affects the interests of Noteholders shall be to make demand upon the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, to repurchase the Loan(s) unless the applicable Trustee receives written direction and indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it from the Super-Majority Noteholders specifying the additional action to be taken (or omitted) by the Trustee, including but not limited to commencing litigation against the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicableSection 11.01. (d) The sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller or the Trust Depositor in connection with the Loan Assets, or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor relating to any unfunded commitment from the Seller or the Trust Depositor, (ii) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (iii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan Asset at the time such Loan Asset is sold hereunder. Without limiting the foregoing, (x) the Issuer does not assume any obligation to purchase any additional notes or loans under agreements governing the Loan Assets and (y) the sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Trust Depositor or the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller as lead agent Originator in connection with the Loan Assets, or collateral agent under any Agented agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, any obligation to any Obligor, if any, not financed by the Originator, or (i) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (ii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan or Co-Agented Loanat the time such Loan is sold hereunder. The Trust Depositor also hereby assigns to the Issuer all of the Trust Depositor’s right, title and interest (but none of its obligations) under the Loan Sale and Contribution Agreement, including but not limited to the Trust Depositor’s right to exercise the remedies created by the Loan Sale and Contribution Agreement. (e) The SellerOriginator, Trust Depositor and Issuer intend and agree that (i) the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor under the Sale and Contribution Agreement and the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer hereunder are intended to be a sale, conveyance and transfer of ownership of the Loan Assets, as the case may be, rather than the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing and (ii) such Loan Assets shall not be part of the SellerOriginator’s or the Trust Depositor’s estate in the event of a filing of a bankruptcy petition or other action by or against such Person under any Insolvency Law. In the event, however, that notwithstanding such intent and agreement, such transfers are deemed to be of a mere granting of a security interest to secure indebtedness, the Seller Originator shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants to) the Trust Depositor and the Trust Depositor shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants) to the Issuer, as the case may be, a perfected first priority security interest in all right, title and interest of the Seller or of the Trust Depositor, respectively, in such Loan Assets respectively and this Agreement shall constitute a security agreement under Applicable Requirements of Law, securing the repayment of the purchase price paid hereunder, the obligations and/or interests represented by the SecuritiesSecurities and the obligations of the Issuer under the Hedge Transactions and the Hedge Agreements, in the order and priorities, and subject to the other terms and conditions of, this Agreement, the Indenture Indenture, the Trust Agreement and the Trust AgreementHedge Agreements, together with such other obligations or interests as may arise hereunder and thereunder in favor of the parties hereto and thereto. (f) If any such transfer of the Loan Assets is deemed to be the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing, the Trust Depositor may, to secure the Trust Depositor’s own borrowing under this Agreement (to the extent that the transfer of the Loan Assets thereunder is deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing) repledge and reassign (i1) all or a portion of the Loan Assets pledged to Trust Depositor by the Seller Originator and with respect to which the Trust Depositor has not released its security interest at the time of such pledge and assignment, and (ii2) all proceeds thereof. Such repledge and reassignment may be made by Trust Depositor with or without a repledge and reassignment by Trust Depositor of its rights under any agreement with the SellerOriginator, and without further notice to or acknowledgment from the SellerOriginator. The Seller Originator waives, to the extent permitted by applicable law, all claims, causes of action and remedies, whether legal or equitable (including any right of setoff), against Trust Depositor or any assignee of Trust Depositor relating to such action by Trust Depositor in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. (g) The Trust Depositor and the Issuer acknowledge and agree (and the Trustee is hereby directed to acknowledge and does acknowledge) that, solely for administrative convenience, any assignment agreement required to be executed and delivered in connection with the transfer of a Loan in accordance with the terms of related Underlying Loan Agreements may reflect that the Seller is assigning such Loan directly to the Issuer. Nothing in such assignment agreements shall be deemed to impair the transfers of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Sale and Contribution Agreement, as applicable, and the subsequent transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof.

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Samples: Sale and Servicing Agreement (Capitalsource Inc)

Creation and Funding of Issuer; Transfer of Loan Assets. (a) The Issuer shall be governed pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of the Closing DateAugust 13, 2019, between the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee (the “Original Trust Agreement”), upon the execution and delivery of the Original Trust Agreement and was created by the filing by the Owner Trustee of an appropriately completed Certificate of Trust (as defined in the Original Trust Agreement) under the Statutory Trust Statute. The Trust Depositor, as settlor of the Issuer, shall fund and convey assets to the Issuer pursuant to the terms and provisions hereof. The Issuer shall be administered pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, the Administration Agreement and the Trust Agreement for the benefit of the Securityholders. Each of the Owner Trustee and the Administrator is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to conduct business dealings on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof and of the Trust Agreement and Administration Agreement. The initial Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to act on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with Section 5.02(g) and Section 5.02(h). The Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to perform the duties and obligations required to be performed by the Servicer under the Transaction Documents. (b) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, and in consideration of the Issuer’s delivery to or upon the order of the Trust Depositor of the Notes and the payment to the Trust Depositor of the net proceeds of the Notes, the Trust Depositor hereby sells, transfers, assigns, sets over and otherwise conveys to the Issuer all the right, title and interest of the Trust Depositor in and to the Initial Loan Assets. To the extent the purchase price paid to the Trust Depositor for any Loan Assets is less than the fair market value of such Loan Assets, the difference between such fair market value and such purchase price shall be deemed to be a capital contribution made by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer on the Closing Date in the case of the Initial Loans, as of the related Additional Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Additional Loans and as of the related Substitute Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Substitute Loans. For all purposes of this Agreement, any contributed Loan Assets shall be treated the same as Loan Assets sold for cash, including without limitation for purposes of Section 11.01. (c) The Seller and the Trust Depositor each acknowledge with respect to itself that the representations and warranties of the Seller in the Sale and Contribution Agreement and of the Trust Depositor in Section 3.01 through Section 3.04 hereof will run to and be for the benefit of the Issuer and the Trustees, and the Issuer and the Trustees may enforce directly (without joinder of the Trust Depositor when enforcing against the Seller) the repurchase obligations of the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, with respect to breaches of such representations and warranties that materially and adversely affect the interests of any Noteholder as set forth in the Sale and Contribution Agreement or in this Agreement; provided that neither the Owner Trustee nor the Trustee shall have a duty or obligation (i) to discover or make and attempt to discover, inquire about or investigate the breach of any of such representations or warranties, warranties or (ii) to determine if such breach materially and adversely affects the interests of any Noteholder or (iii) to enforce the repurchase obligations of the Seller and/or the Trust Depositor it being understood that a Trustee’s sole duty upon receipt by a Responsible Officer of actual knowledge or written notice of a breach that materially and adversely affects the interests of Noteholders shall be to make demand upon the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, to repurchase the Loan(s) unless the applicable Trustee receives written direction and indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it from the Super-Majority Noteholders specifying the additional action to be taken (or omitted) by the Trustee, including but not limited to commencing litigation against the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicableNoteholder. (d) The sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller or the Trust Depositor in connection with the Loan Assets, or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor relating to any unfunded commitment from the Seller or the Trust Depositor, (ii) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (iii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan Asset at the time such Loan Asset is sold hereunder. Without limiting the foregoing, (x) the Issuer does not assume any obligation to purchase any additional notes or loans under agreements governing the Loan Assets and (y) the sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Trust Depositor or the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller as lead agent or collateral agent under any Agented Loan or Co-Agented Lender Loan. The Trust Depositor also hereby assigns to the Issuer all of the Trust Depositor’s right, title and interest (but none of its obligations) under the Sale and Contribution Agreement, including but not limited to the Trust Depositor’s right to exercise the remedies created by the Sale and Contribution Agreement. (e) The Seller, Trust Depositor and Issuer intend and agree that (i) the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor under the Sale and Contribution Agreement and the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer hereunder are intended to be a sale, conveyance and transfer of ownership of the Loan Assets, as the case may be, rather than the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing and (ii) such Loan Assets shall not be part of the Seller’s or the Trust Depositor’s estate in the event of a filing of a bankruptcy petition or other action by or against such Person under any Insolvency Law. In the event, however, that notwithstanding such intent and agreement, such transfers are deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure indebtedness, the Seller shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants to) the Trust Depositor and the Trust Depositor shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants) to the Issuer, as the case may be, a perfected first priority security interest in all right, title and interest of the Seller or of the Trust Depositor, respectively, in such Loan Assets and this Agreement shall constitute a security agreement under Applicable Law, securing the repayment of the purchase price paid hereunder, the obligations and/or interests represented by the Securities, in the order and priorities, and subject to the other terms and conditions of, this Agreement, the Indenture and the Trust Agreement, together with such other obligations or interests as may arise hereunder and thereunder in favor of the parties hereto and thereto. (f) If any such transfer of the Loan Assets is deemed to be the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing, the Trust Depositor may, to secure the Trust Depositor’s own borrowing under this Agreement (to the extent that the transfer of the Loan Assets thereunder is deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing) repledge and reassign (i) all or a portion of the Loan Assets pledged to Trust Depositor by the Seller and with respect to which the Trust Depositor has not released its security interest at the time of such pledge and assignment, and (ii) all proceeds thereof. Such repledge and reassignment may be made by Trust Depositor with or without a repledge and reassignment by Trust Depositor of its rights under any agreement with the Seller, and without further notice to or acknowledgment from the Seller. The Seller waives, to the extent permitted by applicable law, all claims, causes of action and remedies, whether legal or equitable (including any right of setoff), against Trust Depositor or any assignee of Trust Depositor relating to such action by Trust Depositor in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. (g) The Trust Depositor and the Issuer acknowledge and agree (and the Trustee is hereby directed to acknowledge and does acknowledge) that, solely for administrative convenience, any assignment agreement required to be executed and delivered in connection with the transfer of a Loan in accordance with the terms of related Underlying Loan Agreements may reflect that the Seller is assigning such Loan directly to the Issuer. Nothing in such assignment agreements shall be deemed to impair the transfers of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Sale and Contribution Agreement, as applicable, Agreement and the subsequent transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof.

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Samples: Sale and Servicing Agreement (Horizon Technology Finance Corp)

Creation and Funding of Issuer; Transfer of Loan Assets. (a) The Issuer shall be governed pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Trust Agreement, dated as of the Closing DateJune 17, 2013, between the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee (the “Original Trust Agreement”), upon the execution and delivery of the Original Trust Agreement and created by the filing by the Owner Trustee of an appropriately completed Certificate of Trust (as defined in the Original Trust Agreement) under the Statutory Trust Statute. The Trust Depositor, as settlor of the Issuer, shall fund and convey assets to the Issuer pursuant to the terms and provisions hereof. The Issuer shall be administered pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, the Administration Agreement and the Trust Agreement for the benefit of the Securityholders. Each of the Owner Trustee and the Administrator is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to conduct business dealings on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof and of the Trust Agreement and Administration Agreement. The initial Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to act on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with Section 5.02(g) and Section 5.02(h). The Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to perform the duties and obligations required to be performed by the Servicer under the Transaction Documents. (b) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, and in consideration of the Issuer’s delivery to or upon the order of the Trust Depositor of the Notes and the payment to the Trust Depositor of the net proceeds of the Notes, the Trust Depositor hereby sells, transfers, assigns, sets over and otherwise conveys to the Issuer all the right, title and interest of the Trust Depositor in and to the Initial Loan Assets. To the extent the purchase price paid to the Trust Depositor for any Loan Assets is less than the fair market value of such Loan Assets, the difference between such fair market value and such purchase price shall be deemed to be a capital contribution made by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer on the Closing Date in the case of the Initial Loans, as of the related Additional Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Additional Loans and as of the related Substitute Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Substitute Loans. For all purposes of this Agreement, any contributed Loan Assets shall be treated the same as Loan Assets sold for cash, including without limitation for purposes of Section 11.01. (c) The Seller and the Trust Depositor each acknowledge with respect to itself that the representations and warranties of the Seller in the Sale and Contribution Agreement and of the Trust Depositor in Section 3.01 through Section 3.04 hereof will run to and be for the benefit of the Issuer and the Trustees, and the Issuer and the Trustees may enforce directly (without joinder of the Trust Depositor when enforcing against the Seller) the repurchase obligations of the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, with respect to breaches of such representations and warranties that materially and adversely affect the interests of any Noteholder as set forth in the Sale and Contribution Agreement or in this Agreement; provided that neither the Owner Trustee nor the Trustee shall have a duty or obligation (i) to discover or make and attempt to discover, inquire about or investigate the breach of any of such representations or warranties, warranties or (ii) to determine if such breach materially and adversely affects the interests of any Noteholder or (iii) to enforce the repurchase obligations of the Seller and/or the Trust Depositor it being understood that a Trustee’s sole duty upon receipt by a Responsible Officer of actual knowledge or written notice of a breach that materially and adversely affects the interests of Noteholders shall be to make demand upon the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, to repurchase the Loan(s) unless the applicable Trustee receives written direction and indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it from the Super-Majority Noteholders specifying the additional action to be taken (or omitted) by the Trustee, including but not limited to commencing litigation against the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicableNoteholder. (d) The sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller or the Trust Depositor in connection with the Loan Assets, or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor relating to any unfunded commitment from the Seller or the Trust Depositor, (ii) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (iii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan Asset at the time such Loan Asset is sold hereunder. Without limiting the foregoing, (x) the Issuer does not assume any obligation to purchase any additional notes or loans under agreements governing the Loan Assets and (y) the sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Trust Depositor or the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller as lead agent or collateral agent under any Agented Loan or Co-Agented Lender Loan. The Trust Depositor also hereby assigns to the Issuer all of the Trust Depositor’s right, title and interest (but none of its obligations) under the Sale and Contribution Agreement, including but not limited to the Trust Depositor’s right to exercise the remedies created by the Sale and Contribution Agreement. (e) The Seller, Trust Depositor and Issuer intend and agree that (i) the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor under the Sale and Contribution Agreement and the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer hereunder are intended to be a sale, conveyance and transfer of ownership of the Loan Assets, as the case may be, rather than the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing and (ii) such Loan Assets shall not be part of the Seller’s or the Trust Depositor’s estate in the event of a filing of a bankruptcy petition or other action by or against such Person under any Insolvency Law. In the event, however, that notwithstanding such intent and agreement, such transfers are deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure indebtedness, the Seller shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants to) the Trust Depositor and the Trust Depositor shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants) to the Issuer, as the case may be, a perfected first priority security interest in all right, title and interest of the Seller or of the Trust Depositor, respectively, in such Loan Assets and this Agreement shall constitute a security agreement under Applicable Law, securing the repayment of the purchase price paid hereunder, the obligations and/or interests represented by the Securities, in the order and priorities, and subject to the other terms and conditions of, this Agreement, the Indenture and the Trust Agreement, together with such other obligations or interests as may arise hereunder and thereunder in favor of the parties hereto and thereto. (f) If any such transfer of the Loan Assets is deemed to be the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing, the Trust Depositor may, to secure the Trust Depositor’s own borrowing under this Agreement (to the extent that the transfer of the Loan Assets thereunder is deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing) repledge and reassign (i) all or a portion of the Loan Assets pledged to Trust Depositor by the Seller and with respect to which the Trust Depositor has not released its security interest at the time of such pledge and assignment, and (ii) all proceeds thereof. Such repledge and reassignment may be made by Trust Depositor with or without a repledge and reassignment by Trust Depositor of its rights under any agreement with the Seller, and without further notice to or acknowledgment from the Seller. The Seller waives, to the extent permitted by applicable law, all claims, causes of action and remedies, whether legal or equitable (including any right of setoff), against Trust Depositor or any assignee of Trust Depositor relating to such action by Trust Depositor in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. (g) The Trust Depositor and the Issuer acknowledge and agree (and the Trustee is hereby directed to acknowledge and does acknowledge) that, solely for administrative convenience, any assignment agreement required to be executed and delivered in connection with the transfer of a Loan in accordance with the terms of related Underlying Loan Agreements may reflect that the Seller is assigning such Loan directly to the Issuer. Nothing in such assignment agreements shall be deemed to impair the transfers of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Sale and Contribution Agreement, as applicable, Agreement and the subsequent transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof.

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Samples: Sale and Servicing Agreement (Horizon Technology Finance Corp)

Creation and Funding of Issuer; Transfer of Loan Assets. (a) The Issuer shall be governed pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Trust Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, between the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee (the “Original Trust Agreement”), Agreement upon the execution and delivery of the Original Trust Agreement and created by the filing by the Owner Trustee of an appropriately completed Certificate of Trust (as defined in the Original Trust Agreement) under the Statutory Trust Statute. The Trust Depositor, as settlor of the Issuer, shall fund and convey assets to the Issuer pursuant to the terms and provisions hereof. The Issuer shall be administered pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, the Administration Agreement and the Trust Agreement for the benefit of the SecurityholdersHolders and the Swap Counterparties. Each of the The Owner Trustee and the Administrator is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to conduct business dealings on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof and of the Trust Agreement and Administration Agreement. The initial Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to act on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with Section 5.02(g) and Section 5.02(h). The Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to perform the duties and obligations required to be performed by the Servicer under the Transaction Documents. (b) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, and in consideration of the Issuer’s delivery to or upon the order of the Trust Depositor of the Notes and the payment to the Trust Depositor of the net proceeds of the Notes, the Trust Depositor hereby sells, transfers, assigns, sets over and otherwise conveys to the Issuer, for a purchase price consisting of $702,025,311 in cash (less placement expenses and certain other expenses associated with the initial offer and sale of the Notes, the proceeds of which represent the consideration paid by the Issuer herein), $90,000,000 of the Class D Notes, $80,000,000 of the Class E Note and the Certificate of the Issuer in the original certificate balance of $10.00, all of the right, title and interest of the Trust Depositor in and to the following (the items in (i)-(vi) below, but in each case excluding the Retained Interest and Excluded Amounts, being collectively referred to herein as the “Initial Loan Assets. To ”): (i) the Initial Loans and all Collections and other monies due or to become due in payment of such Loans on and after the Initial Cut-Off Date, including any Prepayment Amounts, any Prepayment Premiums, any Late Charges, any payments in respect of a casualty or early termination, any Insurance Proceeds and any Liquidation Proceeds received with respect to the foregoing; (ii) the Collateral related to such Loans (to the extent the purchase price paid to Originator, other than solely in its capacity as collateral agent under any loan agreement with an Obligor, has been granted a Lien thereon), including the security interest of the Trust Depositor for in such Collateral, all proceeds from any Loan Assets is less than the fair market value sale or other disposition of such Collateral and all Insurance Policies; (iii) the Loan AssetsFiles and all documents and records (including computer records) relating thereto; (iv) all guarantees, the difference between indemnities, warranties and other agreements or arrangements of whatever character from time to time supporting or securing payment of such fair market value and such purchase price shall be deemed to be a capital contribution made by Loans; (v) the Trust Depositor Accounts and all Trust Account Property (to the Issuer on the Closing Date in the case extent of the Initial LoansTrust Depositor’s interest if any therein); and (vi) all income, as payments, products, proceeds and other benefits of any and all of the related Additional Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Additional Loans and as of the related Substitute Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Substitute Loans. For all purposes of this Agreement, any contributed Loan Assets shall be treated the same as Loan Assets sold for cash, including without limitation for purposes of Section 11.01foregoing. (c) The Seller Originator and the Trust Depositor each acknowledge with respect to itself that the representations and warranties of the Seller in the Sale Originator and Contribution Agreement and of the Trust Depositor in Section 3.01 through Section Sections 3.01, 3.02, 3.03, 3.04 hereof and 3.05 will run to and be for the benefit of the Issuer Issuer, the Trustees and the TrusteesSwap Counterparties, and the Issuer and the Trustees may enforce enforce, directly (without joinder of the Trust Depositor when enforcing against the Seller) Depositor, the repurchase obligations of the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, Originator with respect to breaches of such representations and warranties that materially and adversely affect the interests of any Noteholder as set forth herein and in the Sale and Contribution Agreement or in this Agreement; provided that neither the Owner Trustee nor the Trustee shall have a duty or obligation (i) to discover or make and attempt to discover, inquire about or investigate the breach of any of such representations or warranties, (ii) to determine if such breach materially and adversely affects the interests of any Noteholder or (iii) to enforce the repurchase obligations of the Seller and/or the Trust Depositor it being understood that a Trustee’s sole duty upon receipt by a Responsible Officer of actual knowledge or written notice of a breach that materially and adversely affects the interests of Noteholders shall be to make demand upon the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, to repurchase the Loan(s) unless the applicable Trustee receives written direction and indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it from the Super-Majority Noteholders specifying the additional action to be taken (or omitted) by the Trustee, including but not limited to commencing litigation against the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicableSection 11.01. (d) The sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller or the Trust Depositor in connection with the Loan Assets, or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor relating to any unfunded commitment from the Seller or the Trust Depositor, (ii) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (iii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan Asset at the time such Loan Asset is sold hereunder. Without limiting the foregoing, (x) the Issuer does not assume any obligation to purchase any additional notes or loans under agreements governing the Loan Assets and (y) the sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Trust Depositor or the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller as lead agent Originator in connection with the Loan Assets, or collateral agent under any Agented agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor, if any, not financed by the Originator, (ii) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (iii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan or Co-Agented Loanat the time such Loan is sold hereunder. The Trust Depositor also hereby assigns to the Issuer all of the Trust Depositor’s right, title and interest (but none of its obligations) under the Sale and Contribution ACAS Transfer Agreement, including but not limited to the Trust Depositor’s right to exercise the remedies created by the Sale and Contribution ACAS Transfer Agreement. (e) The SellerOriginator, the Trust Depositor and the Issuer intend and agree that (i) the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor under the Sale and Contribution Agreement and the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer hereunder are intended to be a sale, conveyance and transfer of ownership of the Loan Assets, as the case may be, Assets rather than the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing and (ii) such Loan Assets shall not be part of the SellerOriginator’s or the Trust Depositor’s estate in the event of a filing of a bankruptcy petition or other action by or against such Person under any Insolvency Law. In the event, however, that notwithstanding such intent and agreement, such transfers are deemed to be a mere granting grant of a mere security interest to secure indebtedness, the Seller Originator shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants todoes grant) the Trust Depositor and the Trust Depositor shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grantsdoes grant) to the Issuer, as the case may be, a perfected first priority security interest in all right, title and interest of the Seller or of the Trust Depositor, respectively, in such Loan Assets Assets, and this Agreement shall constitute a security agreement under Applicable Law, Requirements of Law securing the repayment of the purchase price paid hereunder, the obligations and/or interests represented by the SecuritiesSecurities and the obligations of the Issuer under the Swap Transactions and the Swaps, in the order and priorities, and subject to the other terms and conditions of, this Agreement, the Indenture Indenture, the Trust Agreement and the Trust AgreementSwaps, together with such other obligations or interests as may arise hereunder and thereunder in favor of the parties hereto and thereto. (f) If any such transfer of the Loan Assets is deemed to be the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing, the Trust Depositor may, to secure the Trust Depositor’s own borrowing under this Agreement (to the extent that the transfer of the Loan Assets thereunder hereunder is deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing) repledge and reassign (i) all or a portion of the Loan Assets pledged to the Trust Depositor by the Seller Originator and with respect to which the Trust Depositor has not released its security interest at the time of such pledge and assignment, and (ii) all proceeds thereof. Such repledge and reassignment may be made by the Trust Depositor with or without a repledge and reassignment by the Trust Depositor of its rights under any agreement with the SellerOriginator, and without further notice to or acknowledgment from the SellerOriginator. The Seller Originator waives, to the extent permitted by applicable lawRequirements of Law, all claims, causes of action and remedies, whether legal or equitable (including any right of setoff), against the Trust Depositor or any assignee of the Trust Depositor relating to such action by the Trust Depositor in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. (g) The Trust Depositor and the Issuer acknowledge and agree (and the Trustee is hereby directed to acknowledge and does acknowledge) that, solely for administrative convenience, any assignment agreement required to be executed and delivered in connection with the transfer of a Loan in accordance with the terms of related Underlying Loan Agreements may reflect that the Seller is assigning such Loan directly to the Issuer. Nothing in such assignment agreements shall be deemed to impair the transfers of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Sale and Contribution Agreement, as applicable, and the subsequent transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof.

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Samples: Transfer and Servicing Agreement (American Capital Strategies LTD)

Creation and Funding of Issuer; Transfer of Loan Assets. (a) The Issuer shall be governed created pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Trust Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, between the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee (the “Original Trust Agreement”), upon the execution and delivery of the Original Trust Agreement and created by the filing by the Owner Trustee of an appropriately completed Certificate of Trust (as defined in the Original Trust Agreement) under the Statutory Trust Statute. The Trust Depositor, as settlor of the Issuer, shall fund and convey assets to the Issuer pursuant to the terms and provisions hereof. The Issuer shall be administered pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, the Administration Agreement and the Trust Agreement for the benefit of the Securityholders. Each of the The Owner Trustee and the Administrator is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to conduct business dealings on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof and of the Trust Agreement and Administration Agreement. The initial Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to act on behalf of the Issuer and the Owner Trustee in accordance with Section 5.02(e), Section 5.02(g) and Section 5.02(h). The Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered otherwise to perform the duties and obligations required to be performed by the Servicer under the Transaction Documents. (b) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, and in consideration of the Issuer’s delivery to or upon the order of the Trust Depositor of the Notes and the payment to the Trust Depositor of the net proceeds of the Notes, the Trust Depositor hereby sells, transfers, assigns, sets over and otherwise conveys to the Issuer, for a purchase price consisting of $416,250,000 in cash (less the amount of the deposit made on the date hereof to the Reserve Fund pursuant to Section 7.0l(e) and placement expenses and certain other expenses associated with the initial offer and sale of the Notes the proceeds of which represent consideration paid by the Issuer herein), $43,750,000 in aggregate principal amount of the Class F Note and the Certificate, all the right, title and interest of the Trust Depositor in and to the Initial Loan Assets. To the extent the purchase price paid to the Trust Depositor for any Loan Assets is less than the fair market value of such Loan AssetsLoan, the difference between such fair market value and such the purchase price shall be deemed to be a capital contribution made by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer on the Closing Date in the case of the Initial Loans, Loans and as of the related Additional Loan Cutoff Cut-Off Date in the case of any Additional Loans and as of the related Substitute Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any or Substitute Loans. For all purposes of this Agreement, any contributed Loan Assets shall be treated the same as Loan Assets sold for cash, including without limitation for purposes of Section 11.01. (c) The Seller Originator and the Trust Depositor each acknowledge with respect to itself that the representations and warranties of the Seller Originator in the Loan Sale and Contribution Agreement and of the Trust Depositor in Section 3.01 through Section 3.04 hereof will run to and be for the benefit of the Issuer and the Trustees, and the Issuer and the Trustees may enforce directly (without joinder of the Trust Depositor when enforcing against the Seller) Originator), the repurchase obligations of the Seller Originator or Trust Depositor, as applicable, with respect to breaches of such representations and warranties that materially and adversely affect the interests of any Noteholder as set forth in the Loan Sale and Contribution Agreement or in this Agreement; provided that neither the Owner Trustee nor the Trustee shall have a duty or obligation (i) to discover or make and attempt to discover, inquire about or investigate the breach of any of such representations or warranties, (ii) to determine if such breach materially and adversely affects the interests of any Noteholder or (iii) to enforce the repurchase obligations of the Seller and/or the Trust Depositor it being understood that a Trustee’s sole duty upon receipt by a Responsible Officer of actual knowledge or written notice of a breach that materially and adversely affects the interests of Noteholders shall be to make demand upon the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, to repurchase the Loan(s) unless the applicable Trustee receives written direction and indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it from the Super-Majority Noteholders specifying the additional action to be taken (or omitted) by the Trustee, including but not limited to commencing litigation against the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable. (d) The sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller or the Trust Depositor in connection with the Loan Assets, or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor relating to any unfunded commitment from the Seller or the Trust Depositor, (ii) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (iii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan Asset at the time such Loan Asset is sold hereunder. Without limiting the foregoing, (x) the Issuer does not assume any obligation to purchase any additional notes or loans under agreements governing the Loan Assets and (y) the sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Trust Depositor or the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller Originator as lead agent, collateral agent or collateral paying agent under any Agented Loan or Co-Agented LoanNote. The Trust Depositor also hereby assigns to the Issuer all of the Trust Depositor’s right, title and interest (but none of its obligations) under the Loan Sale and Contribution Agreement, including but not limited to the Trust Depositor’s right to exercise the remedies created by the Loan Sale and Contribution Agreement. (e) The SellerOriginator, Trust Depositor and Issuer intend and agree that (i) the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor under the Loan Sale and Contribution Agreement and the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer hereunder are intended to be a sale, conveyance and transfer of ownership of the Loan Assets, as the case may be, rather than the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing and (ii) such Loan Assets shall not be part of the SellerOriginator’s or the Trust Depositor’s estate in the event of a filing of a bankruptcy petition or other action by or against such Person under any Insolvency Law. In the event, however, that notwithstanding such intent and agreement, such transfers are deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure indebtedness, the Seller Originator shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants to) the Trust Depositor and the Trust Depositor shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grantsgrants to) to the Issuer, as the case may be, a perfected first priority security interest in all right, title and interest of the Seller Originator or of the Trust Depositor, respectively, in such Loan Assets and this Agreement shall constitute a security agreement under Applicable Law, securing the repayment of the purchase price paid hereunder, the obligations and/or interests represented by the Securities, in the order and priorities, and subject to the other terms and conditions of, this Agreement, the Indenture and the Trust Agreement, together with such other obligations or interests as may arise hereunder and thereunder in favor of the parties hereto and thereto. (f) If any such transfer of the Loan Assets is deemed to be the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing, the Trust Depositor may, to secure the Trust Depositor’s own borrowing under this Agreement (to the extent that the transfer of the Loan Assets thereunder is deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing) repledge and reassign (i) all or a portion of the Loan Assets pledged to Trust Depositor by the Seller Originator and with respect to which the Trust Depositor has not released its security interest at the time of such pledge and assignment, and (ii) all proceeds thereof. Such repledge and reassignment may be made by Trust Depositor with or without a repledge and reassignment by Trust Depositor of its rights under any agreement with the SellerOriginator, and without further notice to or acknowledgment from the SellerOriginator. The Seller Originator waives, to the extent permitted by applicable law, all claims, causes of action and remedies, whether legal or equitable (including any right of setoff), against Trust Depositor or any assignee of Trust Depositor relating to such action by Trust Depositor in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. (g) The Trust Depositor and the Issuer acknowledge and agree (and the Trustee is hereby directed to acknowledge and does acknowledge) that, solely for administrative convenience, any assignment agreement required to be executed and delivered in connection with the transfer of a Loan in accordance with the terms of related Underlying Loan Agreements may reflect that the Seller is assigning such Loan directly to the Issuer. Nothing in such assignment agreements shall be deemed to impair the transfers of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Sale and Contribution Agreement, as applicable, and the subsequent transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof.

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Samples: Sale and Servicing Agreement (NewStar Financial, Inc.)

Creation and Funding of Issuer; Transfer of Loan Assets. (a) The Issuer shall be governed pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Trust Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, between the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee (the “Original Trust Agreement”), Agreement upon the execution and delivery of the Original Trust Agreement and created by the filing by the Owner Trustee of an appropriately completed Certificate of Trust (as defined in the Original Trust Agreement) under the Statutory Trust Statute. The Trust Depositor, as settlor of the Issuer, shall fund and convey assets to the Issuer pursuant to the terms and provisions hereof. The Issuer shall be administered pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, the Administration Agreement and the Trust Agreement for the benefit of the SecurityholdersHolders and the Swap Counterparties. Each of the The Owner Trustee and the Administrator is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to conduct business dealings on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof and of the Trust Agreement and Administration Agreement. The initial Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to act on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with Section 5.02(g) and Section 5.02(h). The Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to perform the duties and obligations required to be performed by the Servicer under the Transaction Documents. (b) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, and in consideration of the Issuer’s delivery to or upon the order of the Trust Depositor of the Notes and the payment to the Trust Depositor of the net proceeds of the Notes, the Trust Depositor hereby sells, transfers, assigns, sets over and otherwise conveys to the Issuer, for a purchase price consisting of $436,000,000 in cash (less placement expenses and certain other expenses associated with the initial offer and sale of the Notes, the proceeds of which represent the consideration paid by the Issuer herein), $64,000,000 of the Class E Note and the Certificate of the Issuer in the original certificate balance of $10.00, all of the right, title and interest of the Trust Depositor in and to the following (the items in (i)-(vi) below, but in each case excluding the Retained Interest and Excluded Amounts, being collectively referred to herein as the “Initial Loan Assets. To ”): (i) the Initial Loans and all Collections and other monies due or to become due in payment of such Loans on and after the Closing Date, including any Prepayment Amounts, any Prepayment Premiums, any Late Charges, any payments in respect of a casualty or early termination, any Insurance Proceeds and any Liquidation Proceeds received with respect to the foregoing; (ii) the Collateral related to such Loans (to the extent the purchase price paid to Originator, other than solely in its capacity as collateral agent under any loan agreement with an Obligor, has been granted a Lien thereon), including the security interest of the Trust Depositor for in such Collateral, all proceeds from any Loan Assets is less than the fair market value sale or other disposition of such Collateral and all Insurance Policies; (iii) the Loan AssetsFiles and all documents and records (including computer records) relating thereto; (iv) all guarantees, the difference between indemnities, warranties and other agreements or arrangements of whatever character from time to time supporting or securing payment of such fair market value and such purchase price shall be deemed to be a capital contribution made by Loans; (v) the Trust Depositor Accounts and all Trust Account Property (to the Issuer on the Closing Date in the case extent of the Initial LoansTrust Depositor’s interest if any therein); and (vi) all income, as payments, products, proceeds and other benefits of any and all of the related Additional Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Additional Loans and as of the related Substitute Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Substitute Loans. For all purposes of this Agreement, any contributed Loan Assets shall be treated the same as Loan Assets sold for cash, including without limitation for purposes of Section 11.01foregoing. (c) The Seller Originator and the Trust Depositor each acknowledge with respect to itself that the representations and warranties of the Seller in the Sale Originator and Contribution Agreement and of the Trust Depositor in Section 3.01 through Section Sections 3.01, 3.02, 3.03, 3.04 hereof and 3.05 will run to and be for the benefit of the Issuer Issuer, the Trustees and the TrusteesSwap Counterparties, and the Issuer and the Trustees may enforce enforce, directly (without joinder of the Trust Depositor when enforcing against the Seller) Depositor, the repurchase obligations of the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, Originator with respect to breaches of such representations and warranties that materially and adversely affect the interests of any Noteholder as set forth herein and in the Sale and Contribution Agreement or in this Agreement; provided that neither the Owner Trustee nor the Trustee shall have a duty or obligation (i) to discover or make and attempt to discover, inquire about or investigate the breach of any of such representations or warranties, (ii) to determine if such breach materially and adversely affects the interests of any Noteholder or (iii) to enforce the repurchase obligations of the Seller and/or the Trust Depositor it being understood that a Trustee’s sole duty upon receipt by a Responsible Officer of actual knowledge or written notice of a breach that materially and adversely affects the interests of Noteholders shall be to make demand upon the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, to repurchase the Loan(s) unless the applicable Trustee receives written direction and indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it from the Super-Majority Noteholders specifying the additional action to be taken (or omitted) by the Trustee, including but not limited to commencing litigation against the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicableSection 11.01. (d) The sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller or the Trust Depositor in connection with the Loan Assets, or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor relating to any unfunded commitment from the Seller or the Trust Depositor, (ii) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (iii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan Asset at the time such Loan Asset is sold hereunder. Without limiting the foregoing, (x) the Issuer does not assume any obligation to purchase any additional notes or loans under agreements governing the Loan Assets and (y) the sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Trust Depositor or the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller as lead agent Originator in connection with the Loan Assets, or collateral agent under any Agented agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor, if any, not financed by the Originator, (ii) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (iii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan or Co-Agented Loanat the time such Loan is sold hereunder. The Trust Depositor also hereby assigns to the Issuer all of the Trust Depositor’s right, title and interest (but none of its obligations) under the Sale and Contribution ACAS Transfer Agreement, including but not limited to the Trust Depositor’s right to exercise the remedies created by the Sale and Contribution ACAS Transfer Agreement. (e) The SellerOriginator, the Trust Depositor and the Issuer intend and agree that (i) the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor under the Sale and Contribution Agreement and the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer hereunder are intended to be a sale, conveyance and transfer of ownership of the Loan Assets, as the case may be, Assets rather than the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing and (ii) such Loan Assets shall not be part of the SellerOriginator’s or the Trust Depositor’s estate in the event of a filing of a bankruptcy petition or other action by or against such Person under any Insolvency Law. In the event, however, that notwithstanding such intent and agreement, such transfers are deemed to be a mere granting grant of a mere security interest to secure indebtedness, the Seller Originator shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants todoes grant) the Trust Depositor and the Trust Depositor shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grantsdoes grant) to the Issuer, as the case may be, a perfected first priority security interest in all right, title and interest of the Seller or of the Trust Depositor, respectively, in such Loan Assets Assets, and this Agreement shall constitute a security agreement under Applicable Law, Requirements of Law securing the repayment of the purchase price paid hereunder, the obligations and/or interests represented by the SecuritiesSecurities and the obligations of the Issuer under the Swap Transactions and the Swaps, in the order and priorities, and subject to the other terms and conditions of, this Agreement, the Indenture Indenture, the Trust Agreement and the Trust AgreementSwaps, together with such other obligations or interests as may arise hereunder and thereunder in favor of the parties hereto and thereto. (f) If any such transfer of the Loan Assets is deemed to be the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing, the Trust Depositor may, to secure the Trust Depositor’s own borrowing under this Agreement (to the extent that the transfer of the Loan Assets thereunder hereunder is deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing) repledge and reassign (i) all or a portion of the Loan Assets pledged to the Trust Depositor by the Seller Originator and with respect to which the Trust Depositor has not released its security interest at the time of such pledge and assignment, and (ii) all proceeds thereof. Such repledge and reassignment may be made by the Trust Depositor with or without a repledge and reassignment by the Trust Depositor of its rights under any agreement with the SellerOriginator, and without further notice to or acknowledgment from the SellerOriginator. The Seller Originator waives, to the extent permitted by applicable lawRequirements of Law, all claims, causes of action and remedies, whether legal or equitable (including any right of setoff), against the Trust Depositor or any assignee of the Trust Depositor relating to such action by the Trust Depositor in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. (g) The Trust Depositor and the Issuer acknowledge and agree (and the Trustee is hereby directed to acknowledge and does acknowledge) that, solely for administrative convenience, any assignment agreement required to be executed and delivered in connection with the transfer of a Loan in accordance with the terms of related Underlying Loan Agreements may reflect that the Seller is assigning such Loan directly to the Issuer. Nothing in such assignment agreements shall be deemed to impair the transfers of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Sale and Contribution Agreement, as applicable, and the subsequent transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof.

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Samples: Transfer and Servicing Agreement (American Capital Strategies LTD)

Creation and Funding of Issuer; Transfer of Loan Assets. (a) The Issuer shall be governed created pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Trust Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, between the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee (the “Original Trust Agreement”), Agreement upon the execution and delivery of the Original Trust Agreement and created by the filing by the Owner Trustee of an appropriately completed Certificate of Trust (as defined in the Original Trust Agreement) under the Statutory Trust Statute. The Trust Depositor, as settlor of the Issuer, shall fund and convey assets to the Issuer pursuant to the terms and provisions hereof. The Issuer shall be administered pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, the Administration Agreement and the Trust Agreement for the benefit of the SecurityholdersSecurityholders and the Swap Counterparties. Each of the The Owner Trustee and the Administrator is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to conduct business dealings on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof and of the Trust Agreement and Administration Agreement. The initial Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to act on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with Section 5.02(g) and Section 5.02(h). The Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to perform the duties and obligations required to be performed by the Servicer under the Transaction Documents. (b) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, and in consideration of the Issuer’s delivery to or upon the order of the Trust Depositor of the Notes and the payment to the Trust Depositor of the net proceeds of the Notes, the Trust Depositor hereby sells, transfers, assigns, sets over and otherwise conveys to the Issuer, for a purchase price consisting of $313,769,197 in cash (less placement expenses and certain other expenses associated with the initial offer and sale of the Notes, the proceeds of which represent the consideration paid by the Issuer herein), $39,693,304 of the Class D Notes, $39,693,305 of the Class E Notes and the Certificate of the Issuer in the original certificate balance of $10.00, all of the right, title and interest of the Trust Depositor in and to the Initial following (the items in (i)-(vi) below, but in each case excluding the Retained Interest and Excluded Amounts, being collectively referred to herein as the “Loan Assets. To ”): (i) the Initial Loans and all Collections and other monies due or to become due in payment of such Loans on and after the Initial Cut-Off Date, including any Prepayment amounts, any Prepayment Premiums, any Late Charges, any payments in respect of a casualty or early termination, any Insurance Proceeds and any Liquidation Proceeds received with respect to the foregoing; (ii) the Collateral related to such Loans (to the extent the purchase price paid to Originator, other than solely in its capacity as collateral agent under any loan agreement with an Obligor, has been granted a Lien thereon), including the security interest of the Trust Depositor for in such Collateral, all proceeds from any Loan Assets is less than the fair market value sale or other disposition of such Collateral and all Insurance Policies; (iii) the Loan AssetsFiles and all documents and records (including computer records) relating thereto; (iv) all guarantees, the difference between indemnities, warranties and other agreements or arrangements of whatever character from time to time supporting or securing payment of such fair market value and such purchase price shall be deemed to be a capital contribution made by Loans; (v) the Trust Depositor Accounts and all Trust Account Property (to the Issuer on the Closing Date in the case extent of the Initial LoansTrust Depositor’s interest if any therein); and (vi) all income, as payments, products, proceeds and other benefits of any and all of the related Additional Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Additional Loans and as of the related Substitute Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Substitute Loans. For all purposes of this Agreement, any contributed Loan Assets shall be treated the same as Loan Assets sold for cash, including without limitation for purposes of Section 11.01foregoing. (c) The Seller Originator and the Trust Depositor each acknowledge with respect to itself that the representations and warranties of the Seller in the Sale Originator and Contribution Agreement and of the Trust Depositor in Section 3.01 through Section Sections 3.01, 3.02, 3.03, 3.04 hereof and 3.05 will run to and be for the benefit of the Issuer Issuer, the Trustees and the TrusteesSwap Counterparties, and the Issuer and the Trustees may enforce enforce, directly (without joinder of the Trust Depositor when enforcing against the Seller) Depositor, the repurchase obligations of the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, Originator with respect to breaches of such representations and warranties that materially and adversely affect the interests of any Noteholder as set forth herein and in the Sale and Contribution Agreement or in this Agreement; provided that neither the Owner Trustee nor the Trustee shall have a duty or obligation (i) to discover or make and attempt to discover, inquire about or investigate the breach of any of such representations or warranties, (ii) to determine if such breach materially and adversely affects the interests of any Noteholder or (iii) to enforce the repurchase obligations of the Seller and/or the Trust Depositor it being understood that a Trustee’s sole duty upon receipt by a Responsible Officer of actual knowledge or written notice of a breach that materially and adversely affects the interests of Noteholders shall be to make demand upon the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, to repurchase the Loan(s) unless the applicable Trustee receives written direction and indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it from the Super-Majority Noteholders specifying the additional action to be taken (or omitted) by the Trustee, including but not limited to commencing litigation against the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicableSection 11.01. (d) The sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller or the Trust Depositor in connection with the Loan Assets, or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor relating to any unfunded commitment from the Seller or the Trust Depositor, (ii) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (iii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan Asset at the time such Loan Asset is sold hereunder. Without limiting the foregoing, (x) the Issuer does not assume any obligation to purchase any additional notes or loans under agreements governing the Loan Assets and (y) the sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Trust Depositor or the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller as lead agent Originator in connection with the Loan Assets, or collateral agent under any Agented agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor, if any, not financed by the Originator, (ii) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (iii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan or Co-Agented Loanat the time such Loan is sold hereunder. The Trust Depositor also hereby assigns to the Issuer all of the Trust Depositor’s right, title and interest (but none of its obligations) under the Sale and Contribution ACAS Transfer Agreement, including but not limited to the Trust Depositor’s right to exercise the remedies created by the Sale and Contribution ACAS Transfer Agreement. (e) The SellerOriginator, the Trust Depositor and the Issuer intend and agree that (i) the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor under the Sale and Contribution Agreement and the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer hereunder are intended to be a sale, conveyance and transfer of ownership of the Loan Assets, as the case may be, Assets rather than the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing and (ii) such Loan Assets shall not be part of the SellerOriginator’s or the Trust Depositor’s estate in the event of a filing of a bankruptcy petition or other action by or against such Person under any Insolvency Law. In the event, however, that notwithstanding such intent and agreement, such transfers are deemed to be a mere granting grant of a mere security interest to secure indebtedness, the Seller Originator shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants todoes grant) the Trust Depositor and the Trust Depositor shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grantsdoes grant) to the Issuer, as the case may be, a perfected first priority security interest in all right, title and interest of the Seller or of the Trust Depositor, respectively, in such Loan Assets Assets, and this Agreement shall constitute a security agreement under Applicable Law, Requirements of Law securing the repayment of the purchase price paid hereunder, the obligations and/or interests represented by the SecuritiesSecurities and the obligations of the Issuer under the Swap Transactions and the Swaps, in the order and priorities, and subject to the other terms and conditions of, this Agreement, the Indenture Indenture, the Trust Agreement and the Trust AgreementSwaps, together with such other obligations or interests as may arise hereunder and thereunder in favor of the parties hereto and thereto. (f) If any such transfer of the Loan Assets is deemed to be the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing, the Trust Depositor may, to secure the Trust Depositor’s own borrowing under this Agreement (to the extent that the transfer of the Loan Assets thereunder hereunder is deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing) repledge and reassign (i) all or a portion of the Loan Assets pledged to the Trust Depositor by the Seller Originator and with respect to which the Trust Depositor has not released its security interest at the time of such pledge and assignment, and (ii) all proceeds thereof. Such repledge and reassignment may be made by the Trust Depositor with or without a repledge and reassignment by the Trust Depositor of its rights under any agreement with the SellerOriginator, and without further notice to or acknowledgment from the SellerOriginator. The Seller Originator waives, to the extent permitted by applicable lawRequirements of Law, all claims, causes of action and remedies, whether legal or equitable (including any right of setoff), against the Trust Depositor or any assignee of the Trust Depositor relating to such action by the Trust Depositor in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. (g) The Trust Depositor and the Issuer acknowledge and agree (and the Trustee is hereby directed to acknowledge and does acknowledge) that, solely for administrative convenience, any assignment agreement required to be executed and delivered in connection with the transfer of a Loan in accordance with the terms of related Underlying Loan Agreements may reflect that the Seller is assigning such Loan directly to the Issuer. Nothing in such assignment agreements shall be deemed to impair the transfers of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Sale and Contribution Agreement, as applicable, and the subsequent transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof.

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Samples: Transfer and Servicing Agreement (American Capital Strategies LTD)

Creation and Funding of Issuer; Transfer of Loan Assets. (a) The Issuer shall be governed pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Trust Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, between the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee (the “Original Trust Agreement”), Agreement upon the execution and delivery of the Original Trust Agreement and created by the filing by the Owner Trustee of an appropriately completed Certificate of Trust (as defined in the Original Trust Agreement) under the Statutory Trust Statute. The Trust Depositor, as settlor of the Issuer, shall fund and convey assets to the Issuer pursuant to the terms and provisions hereof. The Issuer shall be administered pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, the Administration Agreement and the Trust Agreement for the benefit of the SecurityholdersHolders and the Swap Counterparties. Each of the The Owner Trustee and the Administrator is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to conduct business dealings on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof and of the Trust Agreement and Administration Agreement. The initial Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to act on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with Section 5.02(g) and Section 5.02(h). The Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to perform the duties and obligations required to be performed by the Servicer under the Transaction Documents. (b) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, and in consideration of the Issuer’s delivery to or upon the order of the Trust Depositor of the Notes and the payment to the Trust Depositor of the net proceeds of the Notes, the Trust Depositor hereby sells, transfers, assigns, sets over and otherwise conveys to the Issuer, for a purchase price consisting of $522,000,000 in cash (less placement expenses and certain other expenses associated with the initial offer and sale of the Notes, the proceeds of which represent the consideration paid by the Issuer herein), $78,000,000 of the Class E Note and the Certificate of the Issuer in the original certificate balance of $10.00, all of the right, title and interest of the Trust Depositor in and to the following (the items in (i)-(vi) below, but in each case excluding the Retained Interest and Excluded Amounts, being collectively referred to herein as the “Initial Loan Assets. To ”): (i) the Initial Loans and all Collections and other monies due or to become due in payment of such Loans on and after the Closing Date, including any Prepayment Amounts, any Prepayment Premiums, any Late Charges, any payments in respect of a casualty or early termination, any Insurance Proceeds and any Liquidation Proceeds received with respect to the foregoing; (ii) the Collateral related to such Loans (to the extent the purchase price paid to Originator, other than solely in its capacity as collateral agent under any loan agreement with an Obligor, has been granted a Lien thereon), including the security interest of the Originator or the Trust Depositor for in such Collateral, all proceeds from any Loan Assets is less than the fair market value sale or other disposition of such Collateral and all Insurance Policies; (iii) the Loan AssetsFiles and all documents and records (including computer records) relating thereto; (iv) all guarantees, the difference between indemnities, warranties and other agreements or arrangements of whatever character from time to time supporting or securing payment of such fair market value and such purchase price shall be deemed to be a capital contribution made by Loans; (v) the Trust Depositor Accounts and all Trust Account Property (to the Issuer on the Closing Date in the case extent of the Initial LoansTrust Depositor’s interest if any therein); and (vi) all income, as payments, products, proceeds and other benefits of any and all of the related Additional Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Additional Loans and as of the related Substitute Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Substitute Loans. For all purposes of this Agreement, any contributed Loan Assets shall be treated the same as Loan Assets sold for cash, including without limitation for purposes of Section 11.01foregoing. (c) The Seller Originator and the Trust Depositor each acknowledge with respect to itself that the representations and warranties of the Seller in the Sale Originator and Contribution Agreement and of the Trust Depositor in Section 3.01 through Section Sections 3.01, 3.02, 3.03, 3.04 hereof and 3.05 will run to and be for the benefit of the Issuer Issuer, the Trustees and the TrusteesSwap Counterparties, and the Issuer and the Trustees may enforce enforce, directly (without joinder of the Trust Depositor when enforcing against the Seller) Depositor, the repurchase obligations of the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, Originator with respect to breaches of such representations and warranties that materially and adversely affect the interests of any Noteholder as set forth herein and in the Sale and Contribution Agreement or in this Agreement; provided that neither the Owner Trustee nor the Trustee shall have a duty or obligation (i) to discover or make and attempt to discover, inquire about or investigate the breach of any of such representations or warranties, (ii) to determine if such breach materially and adversely affects the interests of any Noteholder or (iii) to enforce the repurchase obligations of the Seller and/or the Trust Depositor it being understood that a Trustee’s sole duty upon receipt by a Responsible Officer of actual knowledge or written notice of a breach that materially and adversely affects the interests of Noteholders shall be to make demand upon the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, to repurchase the Loan(s) unless the applicable Trustee receives written direction and indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it from the Super-Majority Noteholders specifying the additional action to be taken (or omitted) by the Trustee, including but not limited to commencing litigation against the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicableSection 11.01. (d) The sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller or the Trust Depositor in connection with the Loan Assets, or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor relating to any unfunded commitment from the Seller or the Trust Depositor, (ii) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (iii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan Asset at the time such Loan Asset is sold hereunder. Without limiting the foregoing, (x) the Issuer does not assume any obligation to purchase any additional notes or loans under agreements governing the Loan Assets and (y) the sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Trust Depositor or the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller as lead agent Originator in connection with the Loan Assets, or collateral agent under any Agented agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor, if any, not financed by the Originator, (ii) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (iii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan or Co-Agented Loanat the time such Loan is sold hereunder. The Trust Depositor also hereby assigns to the Issuer all of the Trust Depositor’s right, title and interest (but none of its obligations) under the Sale and Contribution ACAS Transfer Agreement, including but not limited to the Trust Depositor’s right to exercise the remedies created by the Sale and Contribution ACAS Transfer Agreement. (e) The SellerOriginator, the Trust Depositor and the Issuer intend and agree that (i) the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor under the Sale and Contribution Agreement and the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer hereunder are intended to be a sale, conveyance and transfer of ownership of the Loan Assets, as the case may be, Assets rather than the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing and (ii) such Loan Assets shall not be part of the SellerOriginator’s or the Trust Depositor’s estate in the event of a filing of a bankruptcy petition or other action by or against such Person under any Insolvency Law. In the event, however, that notwithstanding such intent and agreement, such transfers are deemed to be a mere granting grant of a mere security interest to secure indebtedness, the Seller Originator shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants todoes grant) the Trust Depositor and the Trust Depositor shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grantsdoes grant) to the Issuer, as the case may be, a perfected first priority security interest in all right, title and interest of the Seller or of the Trust Depositor, respectively, in such Loan Assets Assets, and this Agreement shall constitute a security agreement under Applicable Law, Requirements of Law securing the repayment of the purchase price paid hereunder, the obligations and/or interests represented by the SecuritiesSecurities and the obligations of the Issuer under the Swap Transactions and the Swaps, in the order and priorities, and subject to the other terms and conditions of, this Agreement, the Indenture Indenture, the Trust Agreement and the Trust AgreementSwaps, together with such other obligations or interests as may arise hereunder and thereunder in favor of the parties hereto and thereto. (f) If any such transfer of the Loan Assets is deemed to be the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing, the Trust Depositor may, to secure the Trust Depositor’s own borrowing under this Agreement (to the extent that the transfer of the Loan Assets thereunder hereunder is deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing) repledge and reassign (i) all or a portion of the Loan Assets pledged to the Trust Depositor by the Seller Originator and with respect to which the Trust Depositor has not released its security interest at the time of such pledge and assignment, and (ii) all proceeds thereof. Such repledge and reassignment may be made by the Trust Depositor with or without a repledge and reassignment by the Trust Depositor of its rights under any agreement with the SellerOriginator, and without further notice to or acknowledgment from the SellerOriginator. The Seller Originator waives, to the extent permitted by applicable lawRequirements of Law, all claims, causes of action and remedies, whether legal or equitable (including any right of setoff), against the Trust Depositor or any assignee of the Trust Depositor relating to such action by the Trust Depositor in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. (g) The Trust Depositor and the Issuer acknowledge and agree (and the Trustee is hereby directed to acknowledge and does acknowledge) that, solely for administrative convenience, any assignment agreement required to be executed and delivered in connection with the transfer of a Loan in accordance with the terms of related Underlying Loan Agreements may reflect that the Seller is assigning such Loan directly to the Issuer. Nothing in such assignment agreements shall be deemed to impair the transfers of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Sale and Contribution Agreement, as applicable, and the subsequent transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof.

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Samples: Transfer and Servicing Agreement (American Capital Strategies LTD)

Creation and Funding of Issuer; Transfer of Loan Assets. (a) The Issuer shall be governed pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Trust Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, between the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee (the “Original Trust Agreement”), upon the execution and delivery of the Original Trust Agreement and created by the filing by the Owner Trustee of an appropriately completed Certificate of Trust (as defined in the Original Trust Agreement) under the Statutory Trust Statute. The Trust Depositor, as settlor of the Issuer, shall fund and convey assets to the Issuer pursuant to the terms and provisions hereof. The Issuer shall be administered pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, the Administration Agreement and the Trust Agreement for the benefit of the Securityholders. Each of the Owner Trustee and the Administrator is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to conduct business dealings on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof and of the Trust Agreement and Administration Agreement. The initial Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to act on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with Section 5.02(g) and Section 5.02(h). The Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to perform the duties and obligations required to be performed by the Servicer under the Transaction Documents. (b) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, and in consideration of the Issuer’s delivery to or upon the order of the Trust Depositor of the Notes and the payment to the Trust Depositor of the net proceeds of the Notes, the Trust Depositor hereby sells, transfers, assigns, sets over and otherwise conveys to the Issuer all the right, title and interest of the Trust Depositor in and to the Initial Loan Assets; provided that, solely with respect to the sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan to Just Fabulous, Inc. identified for inclusion in the Collateral on the initial List of Loans required to be delivered pursuant to Section 2.02(d), the sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of such Loan is subject to that certain Subordination Agreement, dated as of July 26, 2013, between Silicon Valley Bank and the Seller. To the extent the purchase price paid to the Trust Depositor for any Loan Assets is less than the fair market value of such Loan Assets, the difference between such fair market value and such purchase price shall be deemed to be a capital contribution made by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer on the Closing Date in the case of the Initial Loans, as of the related Additional Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Additional Loans and as of the related Substitute Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Substitute Loans. For all purposes of this Agreement, any contributed Loan Assets shall be treated the same as Loan Assets sold for cash, including without limitation for purposes of Section 11.01. (c) The Seller and the Trust Depositor each acknowledge with respect to itself that the representations and warranties of the Seller in the Sale and Contribution Agreement and of the Trust Depositor in Section 3.01 through Section 3.04 hereof will run to and be for the benefit of the Issuer and the Trustees, and the Issuer and the Trustees may enforce directly (without joinder of the Trust Depositor when enforcing against the Seller) the repurchase obligations of the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, with respect to breaches of such representations and warranties that materially and adversely affect the interests of any Noteholder as set forth in the Sale and Contribution Agreement or in this Agreement; provided that neither the Owner Trustee nor the Trustee shall have a duty or obligation (i) to discover or make and attempt to discover, inquire about or investigate the breach of any of such representations or warranties, warranties or (ii) to determine if such breach materially and adversely affects the interests of any Noteholder or (iii) to enforce the repurchase obligations of the Seller and/or the Trust Depositor it being understood that a Trustee’s sole duty upon receipt by a Responsible Officer of actual knowledge or written notice of a breach that materially and adversely affects the interests of Noteholders shall be to make demand upon the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, to repurchase the Loan(s) unless the applicable Trustee receives written direction and indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it from the Super-Majority Noteholders specifying the additional action to be taken (or omitted) by the Trustee, including but not limited to commencing litigation against the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicableNoteholder. (d) The sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller or the Trust Depositor in connection with the Loan Assets, or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor relating to any unfunded commitment from the Seller or the Trust Depositor, (ii) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (iii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan Asset at the time such Loan Asset is sold hereunder. Without limiting the foregoing, (x) the Issuer does not assume any obligation to purchase any additional notes or loans under agreements governing the Loan Assets and (y) the sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Trust Depositor or the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller as lead agent or collateral agent under any Agented Loan or Co-Agented Loan. The Trust Depositor also hereby assigns to the Issuer all of the Trust Depositor’s right, title and interest (but none of its obligations) under the Sale and Contribution Agreement, including but not limited to the Trust Depositor’s right to exercise the remedies created by the Sale and Contribution Agreement. (e) The Seller, Trust Depositor and Issuer intend and agree that (i) the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor under the Sale and Contribution Agreement and the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer hereunder are intended to be a sale, conveyance and transfer of ownership of the Loan Assets, as the case may be, rather than the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing and (ii) such Loan Assets shall not be part of the Seller’s or the Trust Depositor’s estate in the event of a filing of a bankruptcy petition or other action by or against such Person under any Insolvency Law. In the event, however, that notwithstanding such intent and agreement, such transfers are deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure indebtedness, the Seller shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants to) the Trust Depositor and the Trust Depositor shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants) to the Issuer, as the case may be, a perfected first priority security interest in all right, title and interest of the Seller or of the Trust Depositor, respectively, in such Loan Assets and this Agreement shall constitute a security agreement under Applicable Law, securing the repayment of the purchase price paid hereunder, the obligations and/or interests represented by the Securities, in the order and priorities, and subject to the other terms and conditions of, this Agreement, the Indenture and the Trust Agreement, together with such other obligations or interests as may arise hereunder and thereunder in favor of the parties hereto and thereto. (f) If any such transfer of the Loan Assets is deemed to be the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing, the Trust Depositor may, to secure the Trust Depositor’s own borrowing under this Agreement (to the extent that the transfer of the Loan Assets thereunder is deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing) repledge and reassign (i) all or a portion of the Loan Assets pledged to Trust Depositor by the Seller and with respect to which the Trust Depositor has not released its security interest at the time of such pledge and assignment, and (ii) all proceeds thereof. Such repledge and reassignment may be made by Trust Depositor with or without a repledge and reassignment by Trust Depositor of its rights under any agreement with the Seller, and without further notice to or acknowledgment from the Seller. The Seller waives, to the extent permitted by applicable law, all claims, causes of action and remedies, whether legal or equitable (including any right of setoff), against Trust Depositor or any assignee of Trust Depositor relating to such action by Trust Depositor in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. (g) The Trust Depositor and the Issuer acknowledge and agree (and the Trustee is hereby directed to acknowledge and does acknowledge) that, solely for administrative convenience, any assignment agreement required to be executed and delivered in connection with the transfer of a Loan in accordance with the terms of related Underlying Loan Agreements may reflect that the Seller is assigning such Loan directly to the Issuer. Nothing in such assignment agreements shall be deemed to impair the transfers of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Sale and Contribution Agreement, as applicable, Agreement and the subsequent transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof.

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Samples: Sale and Servicing Agreement (Hercules Technology Growth Capital Inc)

Creation and Funding of Issuer; Transfer of Loan Assets. (a) The Issuer shall be governed created pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Trust Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, between the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee (the “Original Trust Agreement”), upon the execution and delivery of the Original Trust Agreement and created by the filing by the Owner Trustee of an appropriately completed Certificate of Trust (as defined in the Original Trust Agreement) under the Statutory Trust Statute. The Trust Depositor, as settlor of the Issuer, shall fund and convey assets to the Issuer pursuant to the terms and provisions hereof. The Issuer shall be administered pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, the Administration Agreement and the Trust Agreement for the benefit of the SecurityholdersSecurityholders and the Hedge Counterparties. Each of the The Owner Trustee and the Administrator is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to conduct business dealings on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof and of the Trust Agreement and Administration Agreement. The initial Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to act on behalf of the Issuer and the Owner Trustee in accordance with Section 5.02(g5.02(e) and Section 5.02(h). The Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to perform the duties and obligations required to be performed by the Servicer under the Transaction Documents. (b) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, and in consideration of the Issuer’s delivery to or upon the order of the Trust Depositor of the Notes and the payment to the Trust Depositor of the net proceeds of the Notes, the Trust Depositor hereby sells, transfers, assigns, sets over and otherwise conveys to the Issuer, for a purchase price consisting of $1,000,403,000 in cash (less placement expenses and certain other expenses associated with the initial offer and sale of the Notes the proceeds of which represent the consideration paid by the Issuer herein), the Class E Note and the Certificate, all the right, title and interest of the Trust Depositor in and to the Initial following, including but not limited to, all accounts, cash and currency, chattel paper, electronic chattel paper, tangible chattel paper, copyrights, copyright licenses, equipment, fixtures, general intangibles, instruments, commercial tort claims, deposit accounts, inventory, investment property, letter of credit rights, software, supporting obligations, accessions, and other property consisting of, arising out of, or related to the following (the Trust Depositor’s interest in items (i)–(vi) below, being collectively referred to herein as the “Loan Assets” but in each case shall exclude any Retained Interest): (i) the Initial Loans, all payments paid in respect thereof and all monies due, to become due or paid in respect thereof accruing on and after the Initial Cut–Off Date and all Liquidation Proceeds and recoveries thereon, in each case as they arise after the Initial Cut–Off Date, but not including the Retained Interest or Interest Collections received prior to September 3, 2004; (ii) all security interests and Liens and Collateral subject thereto from time to time purporting to secure payment by Obligors under such Loans; (iii) all guaranties, indemnities and warranties, and other agreements or arrangements of whatever character from time to time supporting or securing payment of such Loans; (iv) the Trust Accounts, each Obligor Lock–Box, each Obligor Lock–Box Account, the Lock–Box, the Lock–Box Account, and together with all cash and investments in each of the foregoing; (v) all collections and records (including computer records) with respect to the foregoing; (vi) all documents relating to the Loan Files; and (vii) all income, payments, proceeds and other benefits of any and all of the foregoing. To the extent the purchase price paid to the Trust Depositor for any Loan Assets is less than the fair market value of such Loan AssetsLoan, the difference between such fair market value and such the purchase price shall be deemed to be a capital contribution made by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer on the Closing Date in the case of the Initial Loans, as of the related Additional Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Additional Loans and as of the related Substitute Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Substitute Loans. For all purposes of this Agreement, any contributed Loan Assets shall be treated the same as Loan Assets sold for cash, including without limitation for purposes of Section 11.01relevant Transfer Date. (c) The Seller Originator and the Trust Depositor each acknowledge with respect to itself that the representations and warranties of the Seller in the Sale and Contribution Agreement and of the Trust Depositor in Section 3.01 3.01(a) through Section 3.04 hereof 3.01(e) will run to and be for the benefit of the Issuer Issuer, the Trustees and the TrusteesHedge Counterparties, and the Issuer and the Trustees may enforce enforce, directly (without joinder of the Trust Depositor when enforcing against the Seller) Depositor, the repurchase obligations of the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, Originator with respect to breaches of such representations and warranties that materially and adversely affect the interests of any Noteholder as set forth herein and in the Sale and Contribution Agreement or in this Agreement; provided that neither the Owner Trustee nor the Trustee shall have a duty or obligation (i) to discover or make and attempt to discover, inquire about or investigate the breach of any of such representations or warranties, (ii) to determine if such breach materially and adversely affects the interests of any Noteholder or (iii) to enforce the repurchase obligations of the Seller and/or the Trust Depositor it being understood that a Trustee’s sole duty upon receipt by a Responsible Officer of actual knowledge or written notice of a breach that materially and adversely affects the interests of Noteholders shall be to make demand upon the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, to repurchase the Loan(s) unless the applicable Trustee receives written direction and indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it from the Super-Majority Noteholders specifying the additional action to be taken (or omitted) by the Trustee, including but not limited to commencing litigation against the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicableSection 11.01. (d) The sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller or the Trust Depositor in connection with the Loan Assets, or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor relating to any unfunded commitment from the Seller or the Trust Depositor, (ii) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (iii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan Asset at the time such Loan Asset is sold hereunder. Without limiting the foregoing, (x) the Issuer does not assume any obligation to purchase any additional notes or loans under agreements governing the Loan Assets and (y) the sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Trust Depositor or the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller as lead agent Originator in connection with the Loan Assets, or collateral agent under any Agented agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, any obligation to any Obligor, if any, not financed by the Originator, or (i) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (ii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan or Co-Agented Loanat the time such Loan is sold hereunder. The Trust Depositor also hereby assigns to the Issuer all of the Trust Depositor’s right, title and interest (but none of its obligations) under the Loan Sale and Contribution Agreement, including but not limited to the Trust Depositor’s right to exercise the remedies created by the Loan Sale and Contribution Agreement. (e) The SellerOriginator, Trust Depositor and Issuer intend and agree that (i) the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor under the Sale and Contribution Agreement and the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer hereunder are intended to be a sale, conveyance and transfer of ownership of the Loan Assets, as the case may be, rather than the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing and (ii) such Loan Assets shall not be part of the SellerOriginator’s or the Trust Depositor’s estate in the event of a filing of a bankruptcy petition or other action by or against such Person under any Insolvency Law. In the event, however, that notwithstanding such intent and agreement, such transfers are deemed to be of a mere granting of a security interest to secure indebtedness, the Seller Originator shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants to) the Trust Depositor and the Trust Depositor shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants) to the Issuer, as the case may be, a perfected first priority security interest in all right, title and interest of the Seller or of the Trust Depositor, respectively, in such Loan Assets respectively and this Agreement shall constitute a security agreement under Applicable Requirements of Law, securing the repayment of the purchase price paid hereunder, the obligations and/or interests represented by the SecuritiesSecurities and the obligations of the Issuer under the Hedge Transactions and the Hedge Agreements, in the order and priorities, and subject to the other terms and conditions of, this Agreement, the Indenture Indenture, the Trust Agreement and the Trust AgreementHedge Agreements, together with such other obligations or interests as may arise hereunder and thereunder in favor of the parties hereto and thereto. (f) If any such transfer of the Loan Assets is deemed to be the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing, the Trust Depositor may, to secure the Trust Depositor’s own borrowing under this Agreement (to the extent that the transfer of the Loan Assets thereunder is deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing) repledge and reassign (i1) all or a portion of the Loan Assets pledged to Trust Depositor by the Seller Originator and with respect to which the Trust Depositor has not released its security interest at the time of such pledge and assignment, and (ii2) all proceeds thereof. Such repledge and reassignment may be made by Trust Depositor with or without a repledge and reassignment by Trust Depositor of its rights under any agreement with the SellerOriginator, and without further notice to or acknowledgment from the SellerOriginator. The Seller Originator waives, to the extent permitted by applicable law, all claims, causes of action and remedies, whether legal or equitable (including any right of setoff), against Trust Depositor or any assignee of Trust Depositor relating to such action by Trust Depositor in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. (g) The Trust Depositor and the Issuer acknowledge and agree (and the Trustee is hereby directed to acknowledge and does acknowledge) that, solely for administrative convenience, any assignment agreement required to be executed and delivered in connection with the transfer of a Loan in accordance with the terms of related Underlying Loan Agreements may reflect that the Seller is assigning such Loan directly to the Issuer. Nothing in such assignment agreements shall be deemed to impair the transfers of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Sale and Contribution Agreement, as applicable, and the subsequent transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof.

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Samples: Sale and Servicing Agreement (Capitalsource Inc)

Creation and Funding of Issuer; Transfer of Loan Assets. (a) The Issuer shall be governed created pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Trust Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, between the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee (the “Original Trust Agreement”), upon the execution and delivery of the Original Trust Agreement and created by the filing by the Owner Trustee of an appropriately completed Certificate of Trust (as defined in the Original Trust Agreement) under the Statutory Trust Statute. The Trust Depositor, as settlor of the Issuer, shall fund and convey assets to the Issuer pursuant to the terms and provisions hereof. The Issuer shall be administered pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, the Administration Agreement and the Trust Agreement for the benefit of the SecurityholdersSecurityholders and the Hedge Counterparties. Each of the The Owner Trustee and the Administrator is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to conduct business dealings on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof and of the Trust Agreement and Administration Agreement. The initial Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to act on behalf of the Issuer and the Owner Trustee in accordance with Section 5.02(gsubsections 5.02(e) and Section 5.02(h). The Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to perform the duties and obligations required to be performed by the Servicer under the Transaction Documents(h) hereof. (b) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, and in consideration of the Issuer’s delivery to or upon the order of the Trust Depositor of the Notes and the payment to the Trust Depositor of the net proceeds of the Notes, the Trust Depositor hereby sells, transfers, assigns, sets over and otherwise conveys to the Issuer, for a purchase price consisting of $265,002,628.65 in cash (less placement expenses and certain other expenses associated with the initial offer and sale of the Notes the proceeds of which represent the consideration paid by the Issuer herein), the Class D Notes and the Class E Note and the Certificate, all the right, title and interest of the Trust Depositor in and to the Initial following, including but not limited to, all accounts, cash and currency, chattel paper, electronic chattel paper, tangible chattel paper, copyrights, copyright licenses, equipment, fixtures, general intangibles, instruments, commercial tort claims, deposit accounts, inventory, investment property, letter of credit rights, software, supporting obligations, accessions, and other property consisting of, arising out of, or related to the following (the Trust Depositor's interest in items (i) - (vi) below, being collectively referred to herein as the "Loan Assets. To the extent the purchase price paid to the Trust Depositor for any Loan Assets is less than the fair market value of such Loan Assets, the difference between such fair market value and such purchase price shall be deemed to be a capital contribution made by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer on the Closing Date in the case of "): (i) the Initial Loans, all payments paid in respect thereof and all monies due, to become due or paid in respect thereof accruing on and after the Initial Cut-Off Date and all Liquidation Proceeds and recoveries thereon, in each case as they arise after the Initial Cut-Off Date, but not including the Retained Interest or Interest Collections received prior to the Initial Cut-Off Date; (ii) all security interests and liens and Collateral subject thereto from time to time purporting to secure payment by Obligors under such Loans; (iii) all guaranties, indemnities and warranties, and other agreements or arrangements of whatever character from time to time supporting or securing payment of such Loans; (iv) the Trust Accounts, each Obligor Lock-Box, each Obligor Lock-Box Account, the Lock-Box, the Lock-Box Account, and together with all cash and investments in each of the related Additional foregoing; (v) all collections and records (including computer records) with respect to the foregoing; (vi) all documents relating to the Loan Cutoff Date in the case Files; and (vii) all income, payments, proceeds and other benefits of any Additional Loans and as all of the related Substitute Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Substitute Loans. For all purposes of this Agreement, any contributed Loan Assets shall be treated the same as Loan Assets sold for cash, including without limitation for purposes of Section 11.01foregoing. (c) The Seller Originator and the Trust Depositor each acknowledge with respect to itself that the representations and warranties of the Seller in the Sale and Contribution Agreement and of the Trust Depositor in Section 3.01 through Section Sections 3.01, 3.02, 3.03, 3.04 hereof and 3.05 will run to and be for the benefit of the Issuer Issuer, the Trustees and the TrusteesHedge Counterparties, and the Issuer and the Trustees may enforce enforce, directly (without joinder of the Trust Depositor when enforcing against the Seller) Depositor, the repurchase obligations of the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, Originator with respect to breaches of such representations and warranties that materially and adversely affect the interests of any Noteholder as set forth herein and in the Sale and Contribution Agreement or in this Agreement; provided that neither the Owner Trustee nor the Trustee shall have a duty or obligation (i) to discover or make and attempt to discover, inquire about or investigate the breach of any of such representations or warranties, (ii) to determine if such breach materially and adversely affects the interests of any Noteholder or (iii) to enforce the repurchase obligations of the Seller and/or the Trust Depositor it being understood that a Trustee’s sole duty upon receipt by a Responsible Officer of actual knowledge or written notice of a breach that materially and adversely affects the interests of Noteholders shall be to make demand upon the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, to repurchase the Loan(s) unless the applicable Trustee receives written direction and indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it from the Super-Majority Noteholders specifying the additional action to be taken (or omitted) by the Trustee, including but not limited to commencing litigation against the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicableSection 11.01. (d) The sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller or the Trust Depositor in connection with the Loan Assets, or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor relating to any unfunded commitment from the Seller or the Trust Depositor, (ii) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (iii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan Asset at the time such Loan Asset is sold hereunder. Without limiting the foregoing, (x) the Issuer does not assume any obligation to purchase any additional notes or loans under agreements governing the Loan Assets and (y) the sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Trust Depositor or the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller as lead agent Originator in connection with the Loan Assets, or collateral agent under any Agented agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, any obligation to any Obligor, if any, not financed by the Originator, or (1) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (2) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan or Co-Agented Loanat the time such Loan is sold hereunder. The Trust Depositor also hereby assigns to the Issuer all of the Trust Depositor’s 's right, title and interest (but none of its obligations) under the Loan Sale and Contribution Agreement, including but not limited to the Trust Depositor’s 's right to exercise the remedies created by the Loan Sale and Contribution Agreement. (e) The SellerOriginator, Trust Depositor and Issuer intend and agree that (i) the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor under the Sale and Contribution Agreement and the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer hereunder are intended to be a sale, conveyance and transfer of ownership of the Loan Assets, as the case may be, rather than the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing and (ii) such Loan Assets shall not be part of the Seller’s Originator's or the Trust Depositor’s 's estate in the event of a filing of a bankruptcy petition or other action by or against such Person under any Insolvency Law. In the event, however, that notwithstanding such intent and agreement, such transfers are deemed to be of a mere granting of a security interest to secure indebtedness, the Seller Originator shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants to) the Trust Depositor and the Trust Depositor shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants) to the Issuer, as the case may be, a perfected first priority security interest in all right, title and interest of the Seller or of the Trust Depositor, respectively, in such Loan Assets respectively and this Agreement shall constitute a security agreement under Applicable Requirements of Law, securing the repayment of the purchase price paid hereunder, the obligations and/or interests represented by the SecuritiesSecurities and the obligations of the Issuer under the Hedge Transactions and the Hedge Agreements, in the order and priorities, and subject to the other terms and conditions of, this Agreement, the Indenture Indenture, the Trust Agreement and the Trust AgreementHedge Agreements, together with such other obligations or interests as may arise hereunder and thereunder in favor of the parties hereto and thereto. (f) If any such transfer of the Loan Assets is deemed to be the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing, the Trust Depositor may, to secure the Trust Depositor’s 's own borrowing under this Agreement (to the extent that the transfer of the Loan Assets thereunder is deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing) repledge and reassign (i1) all or a portion of the Loan Assets pledged to Trust Depositor by the Seller Originator and with respect to which the Trust Depositor has not released its security interest at the time of such pledge and assignment, and (ii2) all proceeds thereof. Such repledge and reassignment may be made by Trust Depositor with or without a repledge and reassignment by Trust Depositor of its rights under any agreement with the SellerOriginator, and without further notice to or acknowledgment from the SellerOriginator. The Seller Originator waives, to the extent permitted by applicable law, all claims, causes of action and remedies, whether legal or equitable (including any right of setoff), against Trust Depositor or any assignee of Trust Depositor relating to such action by Trust Depositor in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. (g) The Trust Depositor and the Issuer acknowledge and agree (and the Trustee is hereby directed to acknowledge and does acknowledge) that, solely for administrative convenience, any assignment agreement required to be executed and delivered in connection with the transfer of a Loan in accordance with the terms of related Underlying Loan Agreements may reflect that the Seller is assigning such Loan directly to the Issuer. Nothing in such assignment agreements shall be deemed to impair the transfers of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Sale and Contribution Agreement, as applicable, and the subsequent transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof.

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Samples: Sale and Servicing Agreement (Capitalsource Inc)

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Creation and Funding of Issuer; Transfer of Loan Assets. (a) The Issuer shall be governed created pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Trust Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, between the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee (the “Original Trust Agreement”), upon the execution and delivery of the Original Trust Agreement and created by the filing by the Owner Trustee of an appropriately completed Certificate of Trust (as defined in the Original Trust Agreement) under the Statutory Trust Statute. The Trust Depositor, as settlor of the Issuer, shall fund and convey assets to the Issuer pursuant to the terms and provisions hereof. The Issuer shall be administered pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, the Administration Agreement and the Trust Agreement for the benefit of the SecurityholdersSecurityholders and the Hedge Counterparties. Each of the The Owner Trustee and the Administrator is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to conduct business dealings on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof and of the Trust Agreement and Administration Agreement. The initial Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to act on behalf of the Issuer and the Owner Trustee in accordance with Section 5.02(g5.02(e) and Section 5.02(h). The Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to perform the duties and obligations required to be performed by the Servicer under the Transaction Documents. (b) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, and in consideration of the Issuer’s delivery to or upon the order of the Trust Depositor of the Notes and the payment to the Trust Depositor of the net proceeds of the Notes, the Trust Depositor hereby sells, transfers, assigns, sets over and otherwise conveys to the Issuer, for a purchase price consisting of $366,808,285.36 in cash (less placement expenses and certain other expenses associated with the initial offer and sale of the Notes the proceeds of which represent the consideration paid by the Issuer herein), the Class D Notes and the Class E Note and the Certificate, all the right, title and interest of the Trust Depositor in and to the Initial following, including but not limited to, all accounts, cash and currency, chattel paper, electronic chattel paper, tangible chattel paper, copyrights, copyright licenses, equipment, fixtures, general intangibles, instruments, commercial tort claims, deposit accounts, inventory, investment property, letter of credit rights, software, supporting obligations, accessions, and other property consisting of, arising out of, or related to the following (the Trust Depositor's interest in items (i)-(vi) below, being collectively referred to herein as the "Loan Assets. To the extent the purchase price paid to the Trust Depositor for any Loan Assets is less than the fair market value of such Loan Assets, the difference between such fair market value and such purchase price shall be deemed to be a capital contribution made by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer on the Closing Date in the case of "): (i) the Initial Loans, all payments paid in respect thereof and all monies due, to become due or paid in respect thereof accruing on and after the Initial Cut-Off Date and all Liquidation Proceeds and recoveries thereon, in each case as they arise after the Initial Cut-Off Date, but not including the Retained Interest or Interest Collections received prior to the Initial Cut-Off Date; (ii) all security interests and Liens and Collateral subject thereto from time to time purporting to secure payment by Obligors under such Loans; (iii) all guaranties, indemnities and warranties, and other agreements or arrangements of whatever character from time to time supporting or securing payment of such Loans; (iv) the Trust Accounts, each Obligor Lock-Box, each Obligor Lock-Box Account, the Lock-Box, the Lock-Box Account, and together with all cash and investments in each of the related Additional foregoing; (v) all collections and records (including computer records) with respect to the foregoing; (vi) all documents relating to the Loan Cutoff Date in the case Files; and (vii) all income, payments, proceeds and other benefits of any Additional Loans and as all of the related Substitute Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Substitute Loans. For all purposes of this Agreement, any contributed Loan Assets shall be treated the same as Loan Assets sold for cash, including without limitation for purposes of Section 11.01foregoing. (c) The Seller Originator and the Trust Depositor each acknowledge with respect to itself that the representations and warranties of the Seller in the Sale and Contribution Agreement and of the Trust Depositor in Section 3.01 3.01(a) through Section 3.04 hereof 3.01(e) will run to and be for the benefit of the Issuer Issuer, the Trustees and the TrusteesHedge Counterparties, and the Issuer and the Trustees may enforce enforce, directly (without joinder of the Trust Depositor when enforcing against the Seller) Depositor, the repurchase obligations of the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, Originator with respect to breaches of such representations and warranties that materially and adversely affect the interests of any Noteholder as set forth herein and in the Sale and Contribution Agreement or in this Agreement; provided that neither the Owner Trustee nor the Trustee shall have a duty or obligation (i) to discover or make and attempt to discover, inquire about or investigate the breach of any of such representations or warranties, (ii) to determine if such breach materially and adversely affects the interests of any Noteholder or (iii) to enforce the repurchase obligations of the Seller and/or the Trust Depositor it being understood that a Trustee’s sole duty upon receipt by a Responsible Officer of actual knowledge or written notice of a breach that materially and adversely affects the interests of Noteholders shall be to make demand upon the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, to repurchase the Loan(s) unless the applicable Trustee receives written direction and indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it from the Super-Majority Noteholders specifying the additional action to be taken (or omitted) by the Trustee, including but not limited to commencing litigation against the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicableSection 11.01. (d) The sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller or the Trust Depositor in connection with the Loan Assets, or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor relating to any unfunded commitment from the Seller or the Trust Depositor, (ii) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (iii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan Asset at the time such Loan Asset is sold hereunder. Without limiting the foregoing, (x) the Issuer does not assume any obligation to purchase any additional notes or loans under agreements governing the Loan Assets and (y) the sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Trust Depositor or the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller as lead agent Originator in connection with the Loan Assets, or collateral agent under any Agented agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, any obligation to any Obligor, if any, not financed by the Originator, or (i) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (ii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan or Co-Agented Loanat the time such Loan is sold hereunder. The Trust Depositor also hereby assigns to the Issuer all of the Trust Depositor’s 's right, title and interest (but none of its obligations) under the Loan Sale and Contribution Agreement, including but not limited to the Trust Depositor’s 's right to exercise the remedies created by the Loan Sale and Contribution Agreement. (e) The SellerOriginator, Trust Depositor and Issuer intend and agree that (i) the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor under the Sale and Contribution Agreement and the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer hereunder are intended to be a sale, conveyance and transfer of ownership of the Loan Assets, as the case may be, rather than the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing and (ii) such Loan Assets shall not be part of the Seller’s Originator's or the Trust Depositor’s 's estate in the event of a filing of a bankruptcy petition or other action by or against such Person under any Insolvency Law. In the event, however, that notwithstanding such intent and agreement, such transfers are deemed to be of a mere granting of a security interest to secure indebtedness, the Seller Originator shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants to) the Trust Depositor and the Trust Depositor shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants) to the Issuer, as the case may be, a perfected first priority security interest in all right, title and interest of the Seller or of the Trust Depositor, respectively, in such Loan Assets respectively and this Agreement shall constitute a security agreement under Applicable Requirements of Law, securing the repayment of the purchase price paid hereunder, the obligations and/or interests represented by the SecuritiesSecurities and the obligations of the Issuer under the Hedge Transactions and the Hedge Agreements, in the order and priorities, and subject to the other terms and conditions of, this Agreement, the Indenture Indenture, the Trust Agreement and the Trust AgreementHedge Agreements, together with such other obligations or interests as may arise hereunder and thereunder in favor of the parties hereto and thereto. (f) If any such transfer of the Loan Assets is deemed to be the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing, the Trust Depositor may, to secure the Trust Depositor’s 's own borrowing under this Agreement (to the extent that the transfer of the Loan Assets thereunder is deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing) repledge and reassign (i1) all or a portion of the Loan Assets pledged to Trust Depositor by the Seller Originator and with respect to which the Trust Depositor has not released its security interest at the time of such pledge and assignment, and (ii2) all proceeds thereof. Such repledge and reassignment may be made by Trust Depositor with or without a repledge and reassignment by Trust Depositor of its rights under any agreement with the SellerOriginator, and without further notice to or acknowledgment from the SellerOriginator. The Seller Originator waives, to the extent permitted by applicable law, all claims, causes of action and remedies, whether legal or equitable (including any right of setoff), against Trust Depositor or any assignee of Trust Depositor relating to such action by Trust Depositor in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. (g) The Trust Depositor and the Issuer acknowledge and agree (and the Trustee is hereby directed to acknowledge and does acknowledge) that, solely for administrative convenience, any assignment agreement required to be executed and delivered in connection with the transfer of a Loan in accordance with the terms of related Underlying Loan Agreements may reflect that the Seller is assigning such Loan directly to the Issuer. Nothing in such assignment agreements shall be deemed to impair the transfers of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Sale and Contribution Agreement, as applicable, and the subsequent transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof.

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Samples: Sale and Servicing Agreement (Capitalsource Inc)

Creation and Funding of Issuer; Transfer of Loan Assets. (a) The Issuer shall be governed pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Trust Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, between the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee (the “Original Trust Agreement”), upon the execution and delivery of the Original Trust Agreement and created by the filing by the Owner Trustee of an appropriately completed Certificate of Trust (as defined in the Original Trust Agreement) under the Statutory Trust Statute. The Trust Depositor, as settlor of the Issuer, shall fund and convey assets to the Issuer pursuant to the terms and provisions hereof. The Issuer shall be administered pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, the Administration Agreement and the Trust Agreement for the benefit of the Securityholders. Each of the Owner Trustee and the Administrator is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to conduct business dealings on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof and of the Trust Agreement and Administration Agreement. The initial Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to act on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with Section 5.02(g) and Section 5.02(h). The Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to perform the duties and obligations required to be performed by the Servicer under the Transaction Documents. (b) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, and in consideration of the Issuer’s delivery to or upon the order of the Trust Depositor of the Notes and the payment to the Trust Depositor of the net proceeds of the Notes, the Trust Depositor hereby sells, transfers, assigns, sets over and otherwise conveys to the Issuer all the right, title and interest of the Trust Depositor in and to the Initial Loan Assets. To the extent the purchase price paid to the Trust Depositor for any Loan Assets is less than the fair market value of such Loan Assets, the difference between such fair market value and such purchase price shall be deemed to be a capital contribution made by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer on the Closing Date in the case of the Initial Loans, as of the related Additional Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Additional Loans and as of the related Substitute Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Substitute Loans. For all purposes of this Agreement, any contributed Loan Assets shall be treated the same as Loan Assets sold for cash, including without limitation for purposes of Section 11.01. (c) The Seller and the Trust Depositor each acknowledge with respect to itself that the representations and warranties of the Seller in the Sale and Contribution Agreement and of the Trust Depositor in Section 3.01 through Section 3.04 hereof will run to and be for the benefit of the Issuer and the Trustees, and the Issuer and the Trustees may enforce directly (without joinder of the Trust Depositor when enforcing against the Seller) the repurchase obligations of the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, with respect to breaches of such representations and warranties that materially and adversely affect the interests of any Noteholder as set forth in the Sale and Contribution Agreement or in this Agreement; provided that neither the Owner Trustee nor the Trustee shall have a duty or obligation (i) to discover or make and attempt to discover, inquire about or investigate the breach of any of such representations or warranties, (ii) to determine if such breach materially and adversely affects the interests of any Noteholder or (iii) to enforce the repurchase obligations of the Seller and/or the Trust Depositor it being understood that a Trustee’s sole duty upon receipt by a Responsible Officer of actual knowledge or written notice of a breach that materially and adversely affects the interests of Noteholders shall be to make demand upon the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, to repurchase the Loan(s) unless the applicable Trustee receives written direction and indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it from the Super-Majority Noteholders specifying the additional action to be taken (or omitted) by the Trustee, including but not limited to commencing litigation against the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable. (d) The sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller or the Trust Depositor in connection with the Loan Assets, or BUSINESS.29147459.4 any agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor relating to any unfunded commitment from the Seller or the Trust Depositor, (ii) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (iii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan Asset at the time such Loan Asset is sold hereunder. Without limiting the foregoing, (x) the Issuer does not assume any obligation to purchase any additional notes or loans under agreements governing the Loan Assets and (y) the sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Trust Depositor or the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller as lead agent or collateral agent under any Agented Loan or Co-Agented Loan. The Trust Depositor also hereby assigns to the Issuer all of the Trust Depositor’s right, title and interest (but none of its obligations) under the Sale and Contribution Agreement, including but not limited to the Trust Depositor’s right to exercise the remedies created by the Sale and Contribution Agreement. (e) The Seller, Trust Depositor and Issuer intend and agree that (i) the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor under the Sale and Contribution Agreement and the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer hereunder are intended to be a sale, conveyance and transfer of ownership of the Loan Assets, as the case may be, rather than the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing and (ii) such Loan Assets shall not be part of the Seller’s or the Trust Depositor’s estate in the event of a filing of a bankruptcy petition or other action by or against such Person under any Insolvency Law. In the event, however, that notwithstanding such intent and agreement, such transfers are deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure indebtedness, the Seller shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants to) the Trust Depositor and the Trust Depositor shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants) to the Issuer, as the case may be, a perfected first priority security interest in all right, title and interest of the Seller or of the Trust Depositor, respectively, in such Loan Assets and this Agreement shall constitute a security agreement under Applicable Law, securing the repayment of the purchase price paid hereunder, the obligations and/or interests represented by the Securities, in the order and priorities, and subject to the other terms and conditions of, this Agreement, the Indenture and the Trust Agreement, together with such other obligations or interests as may arise hereunder and thereunder in favor of the parties hereto and thereto. (f) If any such transfer of the Loan Assets is deemed to be the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing, the Trust Depositor may, to secure the Trust Depositor’s own borrowing under this Agreement (to the extent that the transfer of the Loan Assets thereunder is deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing) repledge and reassign (i) all or a portion of the Loan Assets pledged to Trust Depositor by the Seller and with respect to which the Trust Depositor has not released its security interest at the time of such pledge and assignment, and (ii) all proceeds thereof. Such repledge and reassignment may be made by Trust Depositor with or without a repledge and reassignment by Trust Depositor of its rights under any agreement with the Seller, and without further notice to or acknowledgment from the Seller. The Seller waives, to the extent permitted by applicable law, all claims, causes of action and remedies, whether legal or equitable (including any right of setoff), against Trust Depositor or any assignee of Trust Depositor relating to such action by Trust Depositor in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. (g) The Trust Depositor and the Issuer acknowledge and agree (and the Trustee is hereby directed to acknowledge and does acknowledge) that, solely for administrative convenience, any assignment agreement required to be executed and delivered in connection with the transfer of a Loan in accordance with the terms of related Underlying Loan Agreements may reflect that the Seller is assigning such Loan directly to the Issuer. Nothing in such assignment agreements shall be deemed to impair the transfers of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Sale and Contribution Agreement, as applicable, and the subsequent transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof.

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Samples: Sale and Servicing Agreement (Hercules Capital, Inc.)

Creation and Funding of Issuer; Transfer of Loan Assets. (a) The Issuer shall be governed created pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Trust Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, between the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee (the “Original Trust Agreement”), Agreement upon the execution and delivery of the Original Trust Agreement and created by the filing by the Owner Trustee of an appropriately completed Certificate of Trust (as defined in the Original Trust Agreement) under the Statutory Trust Statute. The Trust Depositor, as settlor of the Issuer, shall fund and convey assets to the Issuer pursuant to the terms and provisions hereof. The Issuer shall be administered pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, the Administration Agreement and the Trust Agreement for the benefit of the SecurityholdersHolders and the Swap Counterparties. Each of the The Owner Trustee and the Administrator is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to conduct business dealings on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof and of the Trust Agreement and Administration Agreement. The initial Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to act on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with Section 5.02(g) and Section 5.02(h). The Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to perform the duties and obligations required to be performed by the Servicer under the Transaction Documents. (b) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, and in consideration of the Issuer’s delivery to or upon the order of the Trust Depositor of the Notes and the payment to the Trust Depositor of the net proceeds of the Notes, the Trust Depositor hereby sells, transfers, assigns, sets over and otherwise conveys to the Issuer, for a purchase price consisting of $410,000,000 in cash (less placement expenses and certain other expenses associated with the initial offer and sale of the Notes, the proceeds of which represent the consideration paid by the Issuer herein), $50,000,000 of the Class D Notes, $40,000,000 of the Class E Note and the Certificate of the Issuer in the original certificate balance of $10.00, all of the right, title and interest of the Trust Depositor in and to the following (the items in (i)-(vi) below, but in each case excluding the Retained Interest and Excluded Amounts, being collectively referred to herein as the “Initial Loan Assets. To ”): (i) the Initial Loans and all Collections and other monies due or to become due in payment of such Loans on and after the Initial Cut-Off Date, including any Prepayment Amounts, any Prepayment Premiums, any Late Charges, any payments in respect of a casualty or early termination, any Insurance Proceeds and any Liquidation Proceeds received with respect to the foregoing; (ii) the Collateral related to such Loans (to the extent the purchase price paid to Originator, other than solely in its capacity as collateral agent under any loan agreement with an Obligor, has been granted a Lien thereon), including the security interest of the Trust Depositor for in such Collateral, all proceeds from any Loan Assets is less than the fair market value sale or other disposition of such Collateral and all Insurance Policies; (iii) the Loan AssetsFiles and all documents and records (including computer records) relating thereto; (iv) all guarantees, the difference between indemnities, warranties and other agreements or arrangements of whatever character from time to time supporting or securing payment of such fair market value and such purchase price shall be deemed to be a capital contribution made by Loans; (v) the Trust Depositor Accounts and all Trust Account Property (to the Issuer on the Closing Date in the case extent of the Initial LoansTrust Depositor’s interest if any therein); and (vi) all income, as payments, products, proceeds and other benefits of any and all of the related Additional Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Additional Loans and as of the related Substitute Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Substitute Loans. For all purposes of this Agreement, any contributed Loan Assets shall be treated the same as Loan Assets sold for cash, including without limitation for purposes of Section 11.01foregoing. (c) The Seller Originator and the Trust Depositor each acknowledge with respect to itself that the representations and warranties of the Seller in the Sale Originator and Contribution Agreement and of the Trust Depositor in Section 3.01 through Section Sections 3.01, 3.02, 3.03, 3.04 hereof and 3.05 will run to and be for the benefit of the Issuer Issuer, the Trustees and the TrusteesSwap Counterparties, and the Issuer and the Trustees may enforce enforce, directly (without joinder of the Trust Depositor when enforcing against the Seller) Depositor, the repurchase obligations of the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, Originator with respect to breaches of such representations and warranties that materially and adversely affect the interests of any Noteholder as set forth herein and in the Sale and Contribution Agreement or in this Agreement; provided that neither the Owner Trustee nor the Trustee shall have a duty or obligation (i) to discover or make and attempt to discover, inquire about or investigate the breach of any of such representations or warranties, (ii) to determine if such breach materially and adversely affects the interests of any Noteholder or (iii) to enforce the repurchase obligations of the Seller and/or the Trust Depositor it being understood that a Trustee’s sole duty upon receipt by a Responsible Officer of actual knowledge or written notice of a breach that materially and adversely affects the interests of Noteholders shall be to make demand upon the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, to repurchase the Loan(s) unless the applicable Trustee receives written direction and indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it from the Super-Majority Noteholders specifying the additional action to be taken (or omitted) by the Trustee, including but not limited to commencing litigation against the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicableSection 11.01. (d) The sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller or the Trust Depositor in connection with the Loan Assets, or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor relating to any unfunded commitment from the Seller or the Trust Depositor, (ii) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (iii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan Asset at the time such Loan Asset is sold hereunder. Without limiting the foregoing, (x) the Issuer does not assume any obligation to purchase any additional notes or loans under agreements governing the Loan Assets and (y) the sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Trust Depositor or the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller as lead agent or collateral agent under any Agented Loan or Co-Agented Loan. The Trust Depositor also hereby assigns to the Issuer all of the Trust Depositor’s right, title and interest (but none of its obligations) under the Sale and Contribution Agreement, including but not limited to the Trust Depositor’s right to exercise the remedies created by the Sale and Contribution Agreement. (e) The Seller, Trust Depositor and Issuer intend and agree that (i) the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor under the Sale and Contribution Agreement and the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer hereunder are intended to be a sale, conveyance and transfer of ownership of Originator in connection with the Loan Assets, as or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor, if any, not financed by the case may beOriginator, rather than the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing and (ii) such Loan Assets shall not be part of the Seller’s or the Trust Depositor’s estate in the event of a filing of a bankruptcy petition any taxes, fees, or other action charges imposed by or against such Person under any Insolvency Law. In the event, however, that notwithstanding such intent and agreement, such transfers are deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure indebtedness, the Seller shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants to) the Trust Depositor and the Trust Depositor shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants) to the Issuer, as the case may be, a perfected first priority security interest in all right, title and interest of the Seller or of the Trust Depositor, respectively, in such Loan Assets and this Agreement shall constitute a security agreement under Applicable Law, securing the repayment of the purchase price paid hereunder, the obligations and/or interests represented by the Securities, in the order and priorities, and subject to the other terms and conditions of, this Agreement, the Indenture and the Trust Agreement, together with such other obligations or interests as may arise hereunder and thereunder in favor of the parties hereto and thereto. (f) If any such transfer of the Loan Assets is deemed to be the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing, the Trust Depositor may, to secure the Trust Depositor’s own borrowing under this Agreement (to the extent that the transfer of the Loan Assets thereunder is deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing) repledge and reassign (i) all or a portion of the Loan Assets pledged to Trust Depositor by the Seller and with respect to which the Trust Depositor has not released its security interest at the time of such pledge and assignment, and (ii) all proceeds thereof. Such repledge and reassignment may be made by Trust Depositor with or without a repledge and reassignment by Trust Depositor of its rights under any agreement with the Seller, and without further notice to or acknowledgment from the Seller. The Seller waives, to the extent permitted by applicable law, all claims, causes of action and remedies, whether legal or equitable (including any right of setoff), against Trust Depositor or any assignee of Trust Depositor relating to such action by Trust Depositor in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. (g) The Trust Depositor and the Issuer acknowledge and agree (and the Trustee is hereby directed to acknowledge and does acknowledge) that, solely for administrative convenience, any assignment agreement required to be executed and delivered in connection with the transfer of a Loan in accordance with the terms of related Underlying Loan Agreements may reflect that the Seller is assigning such Loan directly to the Issuer. Nothing in such assignment agreements shall be deemed to impair the transfers of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Sale and Contribution Agreement, as applicable, and the subsequent transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof.Governmental Authority and

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Samples: Transfer and Servicing Agreement (American Capital Strategies LTD)

Creation and Funding of Issuer; Transfer of Loan Assets. (a) The Issuer shall be governed created pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Trust Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, between the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee (the “Original Trust Agreement”), Agreement upon the execution and delivery of the Original Trust Agreement and created by the filing by the Owner Trustee of an appropriately completed Certificate of Trust (as defined in the Original Trust Agreement) under the Statutory Business Trust Statute. The Trust Depositor, as settlor of the Issuer, shall fund and convey assets to the Issuer pursuant to the terms and provisions hereof. The Issuer shall be administered pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, the Administration Agreement and the Trust Agreement for the benefit of the SecurityholdersSecurityholders and the Swap Counterparties. Each of the The Owner Trustee and the Administrator is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to conduct business dealings on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof and of the Trust Agreement and Administration Agreement. The initial Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to act on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with Section 5.02(g) and Section 5.02(h). The Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to perform the duties and obligations required to be performed by the Servicer under the Transaction Documents. (b) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, and in consideration of the Issuer’s delivery to or upon the order of the Trust Depositor of the Notes and the payment to the Trust Depositor of the net proceeds of the Notes, the Trust Depositor hereby sells, transfers, assigns, sets over and otherwise conveys to the Issuer, for a purchase price consisting of $128,750,250 in cash (less placement expenses and certain other expenses associated with the initial offer and sale of the Notes, the proceeds of which represent the consideration paid by the Issuer herein) and the Certificate of the Issuer in the original certificate balance of $10.00, all of the right, title and interest of the Trust Depositor in and to the Initial following (the items in (i)-(vi) below, but in each case excluding the Retained Interest and Excluded Amounts, being collectively referred to herein as the “Loan Assets. To ”): (i) the Initial Loans and all Collections and other monies due or to become due in payment of such Loans on and after the Initial Cut-Off Date, including any Prepayment amounts, any Prepayment Premiums, any Late Charges, any payments in respect of a casualty or early termination, any Insurance Proceeds and any Liquidation Proceeds received with respect to the foregoing; (ii) the Collateral related to such Loans (to the extent the purchase price paid to Originator, other than solely in its capacity as collateral agent under any loan agreement with an Obligor, has been granted a Lien thereon), including the security interest of the Trust Depositor for in such Collateral, all proceeds from any Loan Assets is less than the fair market value sale or other disposition of such Collateral and all Insurance Policies; (iii) the Loan AssetsFiles and all documents and records (including computer records) relating thereto; (iv) all guarantees, the difference between indemnities, warranties and other agreements or arrangements of whatever character from time to time supporting or securing payment of such fair market value and such purchase price shall be deemed to be a capital contribution made by Loans; (v) the Trust Depositor Accounts and all Trust Account Property (to the Issuer on the Closing Date in the case extent of the Initial LoansTrust Depositor’s interest if any therein); and (vi) all income, as payments, products, proceeds and other benefits of any and all of the related Additional Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Additional Loans and as of the related Substitute Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Substitute Loans. For all purposes of this Agreement, any contributed Loan Assets shall be treated the same as Loan Assets sold for cash, including without limitation for purposes of Section 11.01foregoing. (c) The Seller Originator and the Trust Depositor each acknowledge with respect to itself that the representations and warranties of the Seller in the Sale Originator and Contribution Agreement and of the Trust Depositor in Section 3.01 through Section Sections 3.01, 3.02, 3.03, 3.04 hereof and 3.05 will run to and be for the benefit of the Issuer Issuer, the Trustees and the TrusteesSwap Counterparties, and the Issuer and the Trustees may enforce enforce, directly (without joinder of the Trust Depositor when enforcing against the Seller) Depositor, the repurchase obligations of the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, Originator with respect to breaches of such representations and warranties that materially and adversely affect the interests of any Noteholder as set forth herein and in the Sale and Contribution Agreement or in this Agreement; provided that neither the Owner Trustee nor the Trustee shall have a duty or obligation (i) to discover or make and attempt to discover, inquire about or investigate the breach of any of such representations or warranties, (ii) to determine if such breach materially and adversely affects the interests of any Noteholder or (iii) to enforce the repurchase obligations of the Seller and/or the Trust Depositor it being understood that a Trustee’s sole duty upon receipt by a Responsible Officer of actual knowledge or written notice of a breach that materially and adversely affects the interests of Noteholders shall be to make demand upon the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, to repurchase the Loan(s) unless the applicable Trustee receives written direction and indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it from the Super-Majority Noteholders specifying the additional action to be taken (or omitted) by the Trustee, including but not limited to commencing litigation against the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicableSection 11.01. (d) The sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller or the Trust Depositor in connection with the Loan Assets, or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor relating to any unfunded commitment from the Seller or the Trust Depositor, (ii) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (iii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan Asset at the time such Loan Asset is sold hereunder. Without limiting the foregoing, (x) the Issuer does not assume any obligation to purchase any additional notes or loans under agreements governing the Loan Assets and (y) the sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Trust Depositor or the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller as lead agent Originator in connection with the Loan Assets, or collateral agent under any Agented agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor, if any, not financed by the Originator, (ii) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (iii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan or Co-Agented Loanat the time such Loan is sold hereunder. The Trust Depositor also hereby assigns to the Issuer all of the Trust Depositor’s right, title and interest (but none of its obligations) under the Sale and Contribution ACAS Transfer Agreement, including but not limited to the Trust Depositor’s right to exercise the remedies created by the Sale and Contribution ACAS Transfer Agreement. (e) The SellerOriginator, the Trust Depositor and the Issuer intend and agree that (i) the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor under the Sale and Contribution Agreement and the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer hereunder are intended to be a sale, conveyance and transfer of ownership of the Loan Assets, as the case may be, Assets rather than the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing and (ii) such Loan Assets shall not be part of the SellerOriginator’s or the Trust Depositor’s estate in the event of a filing of a bankruptcy petition or other action by or against such Person under any Insolvency Law. In the event, however, that notwithstanding such intent and agreement, such transfers are deemed to be a mere granting grant of a mere security interest to secure indebtedness, the Seller Originator shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants todoes grant) the Trust Depositor and the Trust Depositor shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grantsdoes grant) to the Issuer, as the case may be, a perfected first priority security interest in all right, title and interest of the Seller or of the Trust Depositor, respectively, in such Loan Assets Assets, and this Agreement shall constitute a security agreement under Applicable Law, Requirements of Law securing the repayment of the purchase price paid hereunder, the obligations and/or interests represented by the SecuritiesSecurities and the obligations of the Issuer under the Swap Transactions and the Swaps, in the order and priorities, and subject to the other terms and conditions of, this Agreement, the Indenture Indenture, the Trust Agreement and the Trust AgreementSwaps, together with such other obligations or interests as may arise hereunder and thereunder in favor of the parties hereto and thereto. (f) If any such transfer of the Loan Assets is deemed to be the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing, the Trust Depositor may, to secure the Trust Depositor’s own borrowing under this Agreement (to the extent that the transfer of the Loan Assets thereunder hereunder is deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing) repledge and reassign (i) all or a portion of the Loan Assets pledged to the Trust Depositor by the Seller Originator and with respect to which the Trust Depositor has not released its security interest at the time of such pledge and assignment, and (ii) all proceeds thereof. Such repledge and reassignment may be made by the Trust Depositor with or without a repledge and reassignment by the Trust Depositor of its rights under any agreement with the SellerOriginator, and without further notice to or acknowledgment from the SellerOriginator. The Seller Originator waives, to the extent permitted by applicable lawRequirements of Law, all claims, causes of action and remedies, whether legal or equitable (including any right of setoff), against the Trust Depositor or any assignee of the Trust Depositor relating to such action by the Trust Depositor in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. (g) The Trust Depositor and the Issuer acknowledge and agree (and the Trustee is hereby directed to acknowledge and does acknowledge) that, solely for administrative convenience, any assignment agreement required to be executed and delivered in connection with the transfer of a Loan in accordance with the terms of related Underlying Loan Agreements may reflect that the Seller is assigning such Loan directly to the Issuer. Nothing in such assignment agreements shall be deemed to impair the transfers of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Sale and Contribution Agreement, as applicable, and the subsequent transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof.

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Samples: Transfer and Servicing Agreement (American Capital Strategies LTD)

Creation and Funding of Issuer; Transfer of Loan Assets. (a) The Issuer shall be governed has been created pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Trust Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, between the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee (the “Original Trust Agreement”), upon the execution and delivery of the Original Trust Agreement and created by the filing by the Owner Trustee of an appropriately completed Certificate of Trust (as defined in the Original Trust Agreement) under the Statutory Trust Statute. The Trust Depositor, as settlor of the Issuer, shall fund and convey assets to the Issuer pursuant to the terms and provisions hereof. The Issuer shall be administered pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, the Administration Agreement and the Trust Agreement for the benefit of the Securityholders. Each of the The Owner Trustee and the Administrator is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to conduct business dealings on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof and of the Trust Agreement and Administration Agreement. The initial Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to act on behalf of the Issuer and the Owner Trustee in accordance with Section 5.02(g) and Section 5.02(h). The Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to perform the duties and obligations required to be performed by the Servicer under the Transaction Documents. (b) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, and in consideration of the Issuer’s delivery to or upon the order of the Trust Depositor of the Notes and the payment to the Trust Depositor of the net proceeds of the Notes, the Trust Depositor hereby sells, transfers, assigns, sets over and otherwise conveys to the Issuer, for a purchase price consisting of $187,078,701 in cash (less the amount of the deposit made on the date hereof to the Exposure Reserve Account pursuant to Section 7.01(d) and placement expenses and certain other expenses associated with the initial offer and sale of the Notes, the proceeds of which represent consideration paid by the Issuer herein), $31,000,000 in aggregate original principal amount of the Class C Notes, $56,921,299 in aggregate original principal amount of the Subordinated Notes and the Certificate, all the right, title and interest of the Trust Depositor in and to the Initial Loan Assets. To the extent the purchase price paid to the Trust Depositor for any Loan Assets is less than the fair market value of such Loan Assets, the difference between such fair market value and such purchase price shall be deemed to be a capital contribution made by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer on the Closing Date in the case of the Initial Loans, Loans and as of the related Additional Loan Cutoff Cut-Off Date in the case of any Additional Loans and as of the related Substitute Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any or Substitute Loans. For all purposes of this Agreement, any contributed Loan Assets shall be treated the same as Loan Assets sold for cash, including without limitation for purposes of Section 11.01. (c) The Seller Originator and the Trust Depositor each acknowledge with respect to itself that the representations and warranties of the Seller Originator in the Loan Sale and Contribution Agreement and of the Trust Depositor in Section 3.01 through Section 3.04 hereof will run to and be for the benefit of the Issuer and the Trustees, and the Issuer and the Trustees may enforce directly (without joinder of the Trust Depositor when enforcing against the SellerOriginator) the repurchase obligations of the Seller Originator or Trust Depositor, as applicable, with respect to breaches of such representations and warranties that materially and adversely affect the interests of any Noteholder as set forth in the Loan Sale and Contribution Agreement or in this Agreement; provided that neither the Owner Trustee nor the Trustee shall have a duty or obligation (i) to discover or make and attempt to discover, inquire about or investigate the breach of any of such representations or warranties, (ii) to determine if such breach materially and adversely affects the interests of any Noteholder or (iii) to enforce the repurchase obligations of the Seller and/or the Trust Depositor it being understood that a Trustee’s sole duty upon receipt by a Responsible Officer of actual knowledge or written notice of a breach that materially and adversely affects the interests of Noteholders shall be to make demand upon the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, to repurchase the Loan(s) unless the applicable Trustee receives written direction and indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it from the Super-Majority Noteholders specifying the additional action to be taken (or omitted) by the Trustee, including but not limited to commencing litigation against the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable. (d) The sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller or the Trust Depositor in connection with the Loan Assets, or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor relating to any unfunded commitment from the Seller or the Trust Depositor, (ii) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (iii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan Asset at the time such Loan Asset is sold hereunder. Without limiting the foregoing, (x) the Issuer does not assume any obligation to purchase any additional notes or loans under agreements governing the Loan Assets and (y) the sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Trust Depositor or the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller Originator as lead agent, collateral agent or collateral paying agent under any Agented Loan or Co-Agented Loan. The Trust Depositor also hereby assigns to the Issuer all of the Trust Depositor’s right, title and interest (but none of its obligations) under the Loan Sale and Contribution Agreement, including but not limited to the Trust Depositor’s right to exercise the remedies created by the Loan Sale and Contribution Agreement. (e) The SellerOriginator, Trust Depositor and Issuer intend and agree that (i) the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Seller Originator to the Trust Depositor under the Loan Sale and Contribution Agreement and the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer hereunder are intended to be a sale, conveyance and transfer of ownership of the Loan Assets, as the case may be, rather than the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing and (ii) such Loan Assets shall not be part of the SellerOriginator’s or the Trust Depositor’s estate in the event of a filing of a bankruptcy petition or other action by or against such Person under any Insolvency Law. In the event, however, that notwithstanding such intent and agreement, such transfers are deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure indebtedness, the Seller Originator shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants to) the Trust Depositor and the Trust Depositor shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants) to the Issuer, as the case may be, a perfected first priority security interest in all right, title and interest of the Seller Originator or of the Trust Depositor, respectively, in such Loan Assets and this Agreement shall constitute a security agreement under Applicable Law, securing the repayment of the purchase price paid hereunder, the obligations and/or interests represented by the Securities, in the order and priorities, and subject to the other terms and conditions of, this Agreement, the Indenture and the Trust Agreement, together with such other obligations or interests as may arise hereunder and thereunder in favor of the parties hereto and thereto. (f) If any such transfer of the Loan Assets is deemed to be the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing, the Trust Depositor may, to secure the Trust Depositor’s own borrowing under this Agreement (to the extent that the transfer of the Loan Assets thereunder is deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing) repledge and reassign (i) all or a portion of the Loan Assets pledged to Trust Depositor by the Seller Originator and with respect to which the Trust Depositor has not released its security interest at the time of such pledge and assignment, and (ii) all proceeds thereof. Such repledge and reassignment may be made by Trust Depositor with or without a repledge and reassignment by Trust Depositor of its rights under any agreement with the SellerOriginator, and without further notice to or acknowledgment from the SellerOriginator. The Seller Originator waives, to the extent permitted by applicable law, all claims, causes of action and remedies, whether legal or equitable (including any right of setoff), against Trust Depositor or any assignee of Trust Depositor relating to such action by Trust Depositor in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. (g) The Trust Depositor and the Issuer acknowledge and agree (and the Trustee is hereby directed to acknowledge and does acknowledge) that, solely for administrative convenience, any assignment agreement required to be executed and delivered in connection with the transfer of a Loan in accordance with the terms of related Underlying Loan Agreements may reflect that the Seller Originator is assigning such Loan directly to the Issuer. Nothing in such assignment agreements shall be deemed to impair the transfers of the Loan Assets by the Seller Originator to the Trust Depositor in accordance with the terms of this the Loan Sale Agreement and the Sale and Contribution Agreement, as applicable, and the subsequent transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof.

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Samples: Sale and Servicing Agreement (NewStar Financial, Inc.)

Creation and Funding of Issuer; Transfer of Loan Assets. (a) The Issuer shall be governed created pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Trust Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, between the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee (the “Original Trust Agreement”), Agreement upon the execution and delivery of the Original Trust Agreement and created by the filing by the Owner Trustee of an appropriately completed Certificate of Trust (as defined in the Original Trust Agreement) under the Statutory Business Trust Statute. The Trust Depositor, as settlor of the Issuer, shall fund and convey assets to the Issuer pursuant to the terms and provisions hereof. The Issuer shall be administered pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, the Administration Agreement and the Trust Agreement for the benefit of the SecurityholdersSecurityholders and the Swap Counterparties. Each of the The Owner Trustee and the Administrator is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to conduct business dealings on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof and of the Trust Agreement and Administration Agreement. The initial Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to act on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with Section 5.02(g) and Section 5.02(h). The Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to perform the duties and obligations required to be performed by the Servicer under the Transaction Documents. (b) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, and in consideration of the Issuer’s delivery to or upon the order of the Trust Depositor of the Notes and the payment to the Trust Depositor of the net proceeds of the Notes, the Trust Depositor hereby sells, transfers, assigns, sets over and otherwise conveys to the Issuer, for a purchase price consisting of $145,333,029.32 in cash (less placement expenses and certain other expenses associated with the initial offer and sale of the Notes, the proceeds of which represent the consideration paid by the Issuer herein) and the Certificate of the Issuer in the original certificate balance of $10.00, all of the right, title and interest of the Trust Depositor in and to the Initial following (the items in (i)–(vii) below, but in each case excluding the Retained Interest and Excluded Amounts, being collectively referred to herein as the “Loan Assets. To ”): (i) the Initial Loans and all Collections and other monies due or to become due in payment of such Loans on and after the Initial Cut–Off Date, including any Prepayment amounts, any Prepayment Premiums, any Late Charges, any payments in respect of a casualty or early termination, any Insurance Proceeds and any Liquidation Proceeds received with respect to the foregoing; (ii) the Collateral related to such Loans (to the extent the purchase price paid to Originator, other than solely in its capacity as collateral agent under any loan agreement with an Obligor, has been granted a Lien thereon), including the security interest of the Trust Depositor for in such Collateral, all proceeds from any Loan Assets is less than the fair market value sale or other disposition of such Collateral and all Insurance Policies; (iii) the Loan AssetsFiles and all documents and records (including computer records) relating thereto; (iv) all guarantees, the difference between indemnities, warranties and other agreements or arrangements of whatever character from time to time supporting or securing payment of such fair market value and such purchase price shall be deemed to be a capital contribution made by Loans; (v) the Trust Depositor Accounts and all Trust Account Property (to the Issuer on the Closing Date in the case extent of the Initial LoansTrust Depositor’s interest if any therein); and (vi) all income, as payments, products, proceeds and other benefits of any and all of the related Additional Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Additional Loans and as of the related Substitute Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Substitute Loans. For all purposes of this Agreement, any contributed Loan Assets shall be treated the same as Loan Assets sold for cash, including without limitation for purposes of Section 11.01foregoing. (c) The Seller Originator and the Trust Depositor each acknowledge with respect to itself that the representations and warranties of the Seller in the Sale Originator and Contribution Agreement and of the Trust Depositor in Section 3.01 through Section Sections 3.01, 3.02, 3.03, 3.04 hereof and 3.05 will run to and be for the benefit of the Issuer Issuer, the Trustees and the TrusteesSwap Counterparties, and the Issuer and the Trustees may enforce enforce, directly (without joinder of the Trust Depositor when enforcing against the Seller) Depositor, the repurchase obligations of the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, Originator with respect to breaches of such representations and warranties that materially and adversely affect the interests of any Noteholder as set forth herein and in the Sale and Contribution Agreement or in this Agreement; provided that neither the Owner Trustee nor the Trustee shall have a duty or obligation (i) to discover or make and attempt to discover, inquire about or investigate the breach of any of such representations or warranties, (ii) to determine if such breach materially and adversely affects the interests of any Noteholder or (iii) to enforce the repurchase obligations of the Seller and/or the Trust Depositor it being understood that a Trustee’s sole duty upon receipt by a Responsible Officer of actual knowledge or written notice of a breach that materially and adversely affects the interests of Noteholders shall be to make demand upon the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, to repurchase the Loan(s) unless the applicable Trustee receives written direction and indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it from the Super-Majority Noteholders specifying the additional action to be taken (or omitted) by the Trustee, including but not limited to commencing litigation against the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicableSection 11.01. (d) The sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller or the Trust Depositor in connection with the Loan Assets, or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor relating to any unfunded commitment from the Seller or the Trust Depositor, (ii) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (iii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan Asset at the time such Loan Asset is sold hereunder. Without limiting the foregoing, (x) the Issuer does not assume any obligation to purchase any additional notes or loans under agreements governing the Loan Assets and (y) the sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Trust Depositor or the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller as lead agent Originator in connection with the Loan Assets, or collateral agent under any Agented agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor, if any, not financed by the Originator, (ii) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (iii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan or Co-Agented Loanat the time such Loan is sold hereunder. The Trust Depositor also hereby assigns to the Issuer all of the Trust Depositor’s right, title and interest (but none of its obligations) under the Sale and Contribution ACAS Transfer Agreement, including but not limited to the Trust Depositor’s right to exercise the remedies created by the Sale and Contribution ACAS Transfer Agreement. (e) The SellerOriginator, the Trust Depositor and the Issuer intend and agree that (i) the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor under the Sale and Contribution Agreement and the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer hereunder are intended to be a sale, conveyance and transfer of ownership of the Loan Assets, as the case may be, Assets rather than the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing and (ii) such Loan Assets shall not be part of the SellerOriginator’s or the Trust Depositor’s estate in the event of a filing of a bankruptcy petition or other action by or against such Person under any Insolvency Law. In the event, however, that notwithstanding such intent and agreement, such transfers are deemed to be a mere granting grant of a mere security interest to secure indebtedness, the Seller Originator shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants todoes grant) the Trust Depositor and the Trust Depositor shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grantsdoes grant) to the Issuer, as the case may be, a perfected first priority security interest in all right, title and interest of the Seller or of the Trust Depositor, respectively, in such Loan Assets Assets, and this Agreement shall constitute a security agreement under Applicable Law, Requirements of Law securing the repayment of the purchase price paid hereunder, the obligations and/or interests represented by the SecuritiesSecurities and the obligations of the Issuer under the Swap Transactions and the Swaps, in the order and priorities, and subject to the other terms and conditions of, this Agreement, the Indenture Indenture, the Trust Agreement and the Trust AgreementSwaps, together with such other obligations or interests as may arise hereunder and thereunder in favor of the parties hereto and thereto. (f) If any such transfer of the Loan Assets is deemed to be the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing, the Trust Depositor may, to secure the Trust Depositor’s own borrowing under this Agreement (to the extent that the transfer of the Loan Assets thereunder hereunder is deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing) repledge and reassign (i) all or a portion of the Loan Assets pledged to the Trust Depositor by the Seller Originator and with respect to which the Trust Depositor has not released its security interest at the time of such pledge and assignment, and (ii) all proceeds thereof. Such repledge and reassignment may be made by the Trust Depositor with or without a repledge and reassignment by the Trust Depositor of its rights under any agreement with the SellerOriginator, and without further notice to or acknowledgment from the SellerOriginator. The Seller Originator waives, to the extent permitted by applicable lawRequirements of Law, all claims, causes of action and remedies, whether legal or equitable (including any right of setoff), against the Trust Depositor or any assignee of the Trust Depositor relating to such action by the Trust Depositor in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. (g) The Trust Depositor and the Issuer acknowledge and agree (and the Trustee is hereby directed to acknowledge and does acknowledge) that, solely for administrative convenience, any assignment agreement required to be executed and delivered in connection with the transfer of a Loan in accordance with the terms of related Underlying Loan Agreements may reflect that the Seller is assigning such Loan directly to the Issuer. Nothing in such assignment agreements shall be deemed to impair the transfers of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Sale and Contribution Agreement, as applicable, and the subsequent transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof.

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Samples: Transfer and Servicing Agreement (American Capital Strategies LTD)

Creation and Funding of Issuer; Transfer of Loan Assets. (a) The Issuer shall be governed created pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Trust Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, between the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee (the “Original Trust Agreement”), Agreement upon the execution and delivery of the Original Trust Agreement and created by the filing by the Owner Trustee of an appropriately completed Certificate of Trust (as defined in the Original Trust Agreement) under the Statutory Trust Statute. The Trust Depositor, as settlor of the Issuer, shall fund and convey assets to the Issuer pursuant to the terms and provisions hereof. The Issuer shall be administered pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, the Administration Agreement and the Trust Agreement for the benefit of the SecurityholdersSecurityholders and the Swap Counterparties. Each of the The Owner Trustee and the Administrator is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to conduct business dealings on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof and of the Trust Agreement and Administration Agreement. The initial Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to act on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with Section 5.02(g) and Section 5.02(h). The Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to perform the duties and obligations required to be performed by the Servicer under the Transaction Documents. (b) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, and in consideration of the Issuer’s delivery to or upon the order of the Trust Depositor of the Notes and the payment to the Trust Depositor of the net proceeds of the Notes, the Trust Depositor hereby sells, transfers, assigns, sets over and otherwise conveys to the Issuer, for a purchase price consisting of $238,741,000 in cash (less placement expenses and certain other expenses associated with the initial offer and sale of the Notes, the proceeds of which represent the consideration paid by the Issuer herein), $69,382,449 of the Class D Note and the Certificate of the Issuer in the original certificate balance of $10.00, all of the right, title and interest of the Trust Depositor in and to the Initial following (the items in (i)-(vi) below, but in each case excluding the Retained Interest and Excluded Amounts, being collectively referred to herein as the "Loan Assets. To "): (i) the Initial Loans and all Collections and other monies due or to become due in payment of such Loans on and after the Initial Cut-Off Date, including any Prepayment amounts, any Prepayment Premiums, any Late Charges, any payments in respect of a casualty or early termination, any Insurance Proceeds and any Liquidation Proceeds received with respect to the foregoing; (ii) the Collateral related to such Loans (to the extent the purchase price paid to Originator, other than solely in its capacity as collateral agent under any loan agreement with an Obligor, has been granted a Lien thereon), including the security interest of the Trust Depositor for in such Collateral, all proceeds from any Loan Assets is less than the fair market value sale or other disposition of such Collateral and all Insurance Policies; (iii) the Loan AssetsFiles and all documents and records (including computer records) relating thereto; (iv) all guarantees, the difference between indemnities, warranties and other agreements or arrangements of whatever character from time to time supporting or securing payment of such fair market value and such purchase price shall be deemed to be a capital contribution made by Loans; (v) the Trust Depositor Accounts and all Trust Account Property (to the Issuer on the Closing Date in the case extent of the Initial LoansTrust Depositor's interest if any therein); and (vi) all income, as payments, products, proceeds and other benefits of any and all of the related Additional Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Additional Loans and as of the related Substitute Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Substitute Loans. For all purposes of this Agreement, any contributed Loan Assets shall be treated the same as Loan Assets sold for cash, including without limitation for purposes of Section 11.01foregoing. (c) The Seller Originator and the Trust Depositor each acknowledge with respect to itself that the representations and warranties of the Seller in the Sale Originator and Contribution Agreement and of the Trust Depositor in Section 3.01 through Section Sections 3.01, 3.02, 3.03, 3.04 hereof and 3.05 will run to and be for the benefit of the Issuer Issuer, the Trustees and the TrusteesSwap Counterparties, and the Issuer and the Trustees may enforce enforce, directly (without joinder of the Trust Depositor when enforcing against the Seller) Depositor, the repurchase obligations of the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, Originator with respect to breaches of such representations and warranties that materially and adversely affect the interests of any Noteholder as set forth herein and in the Sale and Contribution Agreement or in this Agreement; provided that neither the Owner Trustee nor the Trustee shall have a duty or obligation (i) to discover or make and attempt to discover, inquire about or investigate the breach of any of such representations or warranties, (ii) to determine if such breach materially and adversely affects the interests of any Noteholder or (iii) to enforce the repurchase obligations of the Seller and/or the Trust Depositor it being understood that a Trustee’s sole duty upon receipt by a Responsible Officer of actual knowledge or written notice of a breach that materially and adversely affects the interests of Noteholders shall be to make demand upon the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, to repurchase the Loan(s) unless the applicable Trustee receives written direction and indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it from the Super-Majority Noteholders specifying the additional action to be taken (or omitted) by the Trustee, including but not limited to commencing litigation against the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicableSection 11.01. (d) The sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller or the Trust Depositor in connection with the Loan Assets, or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor relating to any unfunded commitment from the Seller or the Trust Depositor, (ii) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (iii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan Asset at the time such Loan Asset is sold hereunder. Without limiting the foregoing, (x) the Issuer does not assume any obligation to purchase any additional notes or loans under agreements governing the Loan Assets and (y) the sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Trust Depositor or the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller as lead agent Originator in connection with the Loan Assets, or collateral agent under any Agented agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor, if any, not financed by the Originator, (ii) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (iii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan or Co-Agented Loanat the time such Loan is sold hereunder. The Trust Depositor also hereby assigns to the Issuer all of the Trust Depositor’s 's right, title and interest (but none of its obligations) under the Sale and Contribution ACAS Transfer Agreement, including but not limited to the Trust Depositor’s 's right to exercise the remedies created by the Sale and Contribution ACAS Transfer Agreement. (e) The SellerOriginator, the Trust Depositor and the Issuer intend and agree that (i) the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor under the Sale and Contribution Agreement and the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer hereunder are intended to be a sale, conveyance and transfer of ownership of the Loan Assets, as the case may be, Assets rather than the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing and (ii) such Loan Assets shall not be part of the Seller’s Originator's or the Trust Depositor’s 's estate in the event of a filing of a bankruptcy petition or other action by or against such Person under any Insolvency Law. In the event, however, that notwithstanding such intent and agreement, such transfers are deemed to be a mere granting grant of a mere security interest to secure indebtedness, the Seller Originator shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants todoes grant) the Trust Depositor and the Trust Depositor shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grantsdoes grant) to the Issuer, as the case may be, a perfected first priority security interest in all right, title and interest of the Seller or of the Trust Depositor, respectively, in such Loan Assets Assets, and this Agreement shall constitute a security agreement under Applicable Law, Requirements of Law securing the repayment of the purchase price paid hereunder, the obligations and/or interests represented by the SecuritiesSecurities and the obligations of the Issuer under the Swap Transactions and the Swaps, in the order and priorities, and subject to the other terms and conditions of, this Agreement, the Indenture Indenture, the Trust Agreement and the Trust AgreementSwaps, together with such other obligations or interests as may arise hereunder and thereunder in favor of the parties hereto and thereto. (f) If any such transfer of the Loan Assets is deemed to be the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing, the Trust Depositor may, to secure the Trust Depositor’s 's own borrowing under this Agreement (to the extent that the transfer of the Loan Assets thereunder hereunder is deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing) repledge and reassign (i) all or a portion of the Loan Assets pledged to the Trust Depositor by the Seller Originator and with respect to which the Trust Depositor has not released its security interest at the time of such pledge and assignment, and (ii) all proceeds thereof. Such repledge and reassignment may be made by the Trust Depositor with or without a repledge and reassignment by the Trust Depositor of its rights under any agreement with the SellerOriginator, and without further notice to or acknowledgment from the SellerOriginator. The Seller Originator waives, to the extent permitted by applicable lawRequirements of Law, all claims, causes of action and remedies, whether legal or equitable (including any right of setoff), against the Trust Depositor or any assignee of the Trust Depositor relating to such action by the Trust Depositor in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. (g) The Trust Depositor and the Issuer acknowledge and agree (and the Trustee is hereby directed to acknowledge and does acknowledge) that, solely for administrative convenience, any assignment agreement required to be executed and delivered in connection with the transfer of a Loan in accordance with the terms of related Underlying Loan Agreements may reflect that the Seller is assigning such Loan directly to the Issuer. Nothing in such assignment agreements shall be deemed to impair the transfers of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Sale and Contribution Agreement, as applicable, and the subsequent transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof.

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Samples: Transfer and Servicing Agreement (American Capital Strategies LTD)

Creation and Funding of Issuer; Transfer of Loan Assets. (a) The Issuer shall be governed created pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Trust Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, between the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee (the “Original Trust Agreement”), upon the execution and delivery of the Original Trust Agreement and created by the filing by the Owner Trustee of an appropriately completed Certificate of Trust (as defined in the Original Trust Agreement) under the Statutory Trust Statute. The Trust Depositor, as settlor of the Issuer, shall fund and convey assets to the Issuer pursuant to the terms and provisions hereof. The Issuer shall be administered pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, the Administration Agreement and the Trust Agreement for the benefit of the SecurityholdersSecurityholders and the Hedge Counterparties. Each of the The Owner Trustee and the Administrator is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to conduct business dealings on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof and of the Trust Agreement and Administration Agreement. The initial Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to act on behalf of the Issuer and the Owner Trustee in accordance with Section 5.02(g5.02(e) and Section 5.02(h). The Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to perform the duties and obligations required to be performed by the Servicer under the Transaction Documents. (b) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, and in consideration of the Issuer’s delivery to or upon the order of the Trust Depositor of the Notes and the payment to the Trust Depositor of the net proceeds of the Notes, the Trust Depositor hereby sells, transfers, assigns, sets over and otherwise conveys to the Issuer, for a purchase price consisting of $1,133,190,412.50 in cash (less placement expenses and certain other expenses associated with the initial offer and sale of the Notes the proceeds of which represent the consideration paid by the Issuer herein), $51,875,000 in aggregate principal amount of the Class E Notes, the Class F Note and the Certificate, all the right, title and interest of the Trust Depositor in and to the Initial following, including but not limited to, all accounts, cash and currency, chattel paper, electronic chattel paper, tangible chattel paper, copyrights, copyright licenses, equipment, fixtures, general intangibles, instruments, commercial tort claims, deposit accounts, inventory, investment property, letter of credit rights, software, supporting obligations, accessions, and other property consisting of, arising out of, or related to the following (the Trust Depositor’s interest in items (i)–(vi) below, being collectively referred to herein as the “Loan Assets” but in each case shall exclude any Retained Interest): (i) the Initial Loans, all payments paid in respect thereof and all monies due, to become due or paid in respect thereof accruing on and after the Initial Cut–Off Date and all Liquidation Proceeds and recoveries thereon, in each case as they arise after the Initial Cut–Off Date, but not including the Retained Interest or Interest Collections received prior to February 19, 2005; (ii) all security interests and Liens and Collateral subject thereto from time to time purporting to secure payment by Obligors under such Loans; (iii) all guaranties, indemnities and warranties, and other agreements or arrangements of whatever character from time to time supporting or securing payment of such Loans; (iv) the Trust Accounts, each Obligor Lock–Box, each Obligor Lock–Box Account, the Lock–Box, the Lock–Box Account, and together with all cash and investments in each of the foregoing; (v) all collections and records (including computer records) with respect to the foregoing; (vi) all documents relating to the Loan Files; and (vii) all income, payments, proceeds and other benefits of any and all of the foregoing. To the extent the purchase price paid to the Trust Depositor for any Loan Assets is less than the fair market value of such Loan AssetsLoan, the difference between such fair market value and such the purchase price shall be deemed to be a capital contribution made by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer on the Closing Date in the case of the Initial Loans, as of the related Additional Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Additional Loans and as of the related Substitute Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any Substitute Loans. For all purposes of this Agreement, any contributed Loan Assets shall be treated the same as Loan Assets sold for cash, including without limitation for purposes of Section 11.01relevant Transfer Date. (c) The Seller Originator and the Trust Depositor each acknowledge with respect to itself that the representations and warranties of the Seller in the Sale and Contribution Agreement and of the Trust Depositor in Section 3.01 3.01(a) through Section 3.04 hereof 3.01(e) will run to and be for the benefit of the Issuer Issuer, the Trustees and the TrusteesHedge Counterparties, and the Issuer and the Trustees may enforce enforce, directly (without joinder of the Trust Depositor when enforcing against the Seller) Depositor, the repurchase obligations of the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, Originator with respect to breaches of such representations and warranties that materially and adversely affect the interests of any Noteholder as set forth herein and in the Sale and Contribution Agreement or in this Agreement; provided that neither the Owner Trustee nor the Trustee shall have a duty or obligation (i) to discover or make and attempt to discover, inquire about or investigate the breach of any of such representations or warranties, (ii) to determine if such breach materially and adversely affects the interests of any Noteholder or (iii) to enforce the repurchase obligations of the Seller and/or the Trust Depositor it being understood that a Trustee’s sole duty upon receipt by a Responsible Officer of actual knowledge or written notice of a breach that materially and adversely affects the interests of Noteholders shall be to make demand upon the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, to repurchase the Loan(s) unless the applicable Trustee receives written direction and indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it from the Super-Majority Noteholders specifying the additional action to be taken (or omitted) by the Trustee, including but not limited to commencing litigation against the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicableSection 11.01. (d) The sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller or the Trust Depositor in connection with the Loan Assets, or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor relating to any unfunded commitment from the Seller or the Trust Depositor, (ii) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (iii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan Asset at the time such Loan Asset is sold hereunder. Without limiting the foregoing, (x) the Issuer does not assume any obligation to purchase any additional notes or loans under agreements governing the Loan Assets and (y) the sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Trust Depositor or the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller as lead agent Originator in connection with the Loan Assets, or collateral agent under any Agented agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, any obligation to any Obligor, if any, not financed by the Originator, or (i) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (ii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan or Co-Agented Loanat the time such Loan is sold hereunder. The Trust Depositor also hereby assigns to the Issuer all of the Trust Depositor’s right, title and interest (but none of its obligations) under the Loan Sale and Contribution Agreement, including but not limited to the Trust Depositor’s right to exercise the remedies created by the Loan Sale and Contribution Agreement. (e) The SellerOriginator, Trust Depositor and Issuer intend and agree that (i) the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor under the Sale and Contribution Agreement and the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer hereunder are intended to be a sale, conveyance and transfer of ownership of the Loan Assets, as the case may be, rather than the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing and (ii) such Loan Assets shall not be part of the SellerOriginator’s or the Trust Depositor’s estate in the event of a filing of a bankruptcy petition or other action by or against such Person under any Insolvency Law. In the event, however, that notwithstanding such intent and agreement, such transfers are deemed to be of a mere granting of a security interest to secure indebtedness, the Seller Originator shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants to) the Trust Depositor and the Trust Depositor shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants) to the Issuer, as the case may be, a perfected first priority security interest in all right, title and interest of the Seller or of the Trust Depositor, respectively, in such Loan Assets respectively and this Agreement shall constitute a security agreement under Applicable Requirements of Law, securing the repayment of the purchase price paid hereunder, the obligations and/or interests represented by the SecuritiesSecurities and the obligations of the Issuer under the Hedge Transactions and the Hedge Agreements, in the order and priorities, and subject to the other terms and conditions of, this Agreement, the Indenture Indenture, the Trust Agreement and the Trust AgreementHedge Agreements, together with such other obligations or interests as may arise hereunder and thereunder in favor of the parties hereto and thereto. (f) If any such transfer of the Loan Assets is deemed to be the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing, the Trust Depositor may, to secure the Trust Depositor’s own borrowing under this Agreement (to the extent that the transfer of the Loan Assets thereunder is deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing) repledge and reassign (i1) all or a portion of the Loan Assets pledged to Trust Depositor by the Seller Originator and with respect to which the Trust Depositor has not released its security interest at the time of such pledge and assignment, and (ii2) all proceeds thereof. Such repledge and reassignment may be made by Trust Depositor with or without a repledge and reassignment by Trust Depositor of its rights under any agreement with the SellerOriginator, and without further notice to or acknowledgment from the SellerOriginator. The Seller Originator waives, to the extent permitted by applicable law, all claims, causes of action and remedies, whether legal or equitable (including any right of setoff), against Trust Depositor or any assignee of Trust Depositor relating to such action by Trust Depositor in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. (g) The Trust Depositor and the Issuer acknowledge and agree (and the Trustee is hereby directed to acknowledge and does acknowledge) that, solely for administrative convenience, any assignment agreement required to be executed and delivered in connection with the transfer of a Loan in accordance with the terms of related Underlying Loan Agreements may reflect that the Seller is assigning such Loan directly to the Issuer. Nothing in such assignment agreements shall be deemed to impair the transfers of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Sale and Contribution Agreement, as applicable, and the subsequent transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof.

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Samples: Sale and Servicing Agreement (Capitalsource Inc)

Creation and Funding of Issuer; Transfer of Loan Assets. (a) The Issuer shall be governed has been organized by the Originator pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Trust Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, between the Trust Depositor Issuer LLC Agreement and the Owner Trustee (the “Original Trust Agreement”), upon the execution and delivery of the Original Trust Agreement and created by the filing by the Owner Trustee of an appropriately completed Certificate of Trust (as defined in the Original Trust Agreement) under the Statutory Trust Statute. The Trust Depositor, as settlor of the Issuer, Originator shall fund and convey assets to the Issuer pursuant to the terms and provisions hereof. The Issuer shall be administered pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, the Administration Agreement and the Trust Agreement for the benefit of the Securityholders. Each of the Owner Trustee and the Administrator is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to conduct business dealings on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof and of the Trust Agreement and Administration Agreement. The initial Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered to act on behalf of the Issuer in accordance with Section ‎Section 5.02(g) and Section ‎Section 5.02(h). The Servicer is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto as empowered , and to perform the any other duties and obligations required to be performed by the Servicer under the Transaction Documents. (b) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, and in consideration of the Issuer’s delivery to or upon the order of the Trust Depositor Originator of the Notes and Initial Advance on the payment to the Trust Depositor of the net proceeds of the NotesClosing Date, the Trust Depositor Originator hereby sells, transfers, assigns, sets over and otherwise conveys to the Issuer all the right, title and interest of the Trust Depositor Originator in and to the Initial Loan Assets. . (c) To the extent the purchase price paid to the Trust Depositor Originator for any Loan Assets is less than the fair market value of such Loan Assets, the difference between such fair market value and such purchase price shall be deemed to be constitute a capital contribution made by the Trust Depositor Originator to the Issuer on the Closing Date in the case of the Initial Loans, Loans and as of the related Additional Loan Cutoff Transfer Date in the case of any Additional Subsequent Loans and as of the related Substitute Loan Cutoff Date in the case of any or Substitute Loans. For all purposes of this Agreement, any contributed Loan Assets shall be treated the same as Loan Assets sold for cash, including without limitation for purposes of Section ‎Section 11.01. (cd) The Seller and the Trust Depositor each acknowledge with respect to itself Originator acknowledges that the representations and warranties of the Seller Originator in the Sale and Contribution Agreement and of the Trust Depositor in Section ‎Section 3.01 through Section ‎Section 3.04 hereof will run to and be for the benefit of the Issuer and the TrusteesTrustee, and the Issuer and the Trustees Trustee may enforce directly (without joinder of the Trust Depositor when enforcing against the Seller) the repurchase obligations of the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicableOriginator, with respect to breaches of such representations and warranties that materially and adversely affect the interests of any Noteholder as set forth in the Sale and Contribution Agreement or in this Agreement; provided that neither . Other than with respect to ‎Section 12.02, the Owner Trustee nor repurchase obligation or substitution obligation of the Trustee shall have Originator set forth in ‎Section 11.01 constitutes the sole remedy available for a duty or obligation (i) to discover or make and attempt to discover, inquire about or investigate the breach of any representation or warranty of such representations or warranties, (ii) to determine if such breach materially and adversely affects the interests Originator in connection with the purchase of any Noteholder or (iii) to enforce the repurchase obligations of the Seller and/or the Trust Depositor it being understood that a Trustee’s sole duty upon receipt by a Responsible Officer of actual knowledge or written notice of a breach that materially and adversely affects the interests of Noteholders shall be to make demand upon the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicable, to repurchase the Loan(s) unless the applicable Trustee receives written direction and indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it from the Super-Majority Noteholders specifying the additional action to be taken (or omitted) by the Trustee, including but not limited to commencing litigation against the Seller or Trust Depositor, as applicableLoan Asset. (de) The sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor Originator to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller or the Trust Depositor Originator in connection with the Loan Assets, or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) any obligation to any Obligor relating to any unfunded commitment from the Seller or the Trust DepositorOriginator, (ii) any taxes, fees, or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority and (iii) any insurance premiums that remain owing with respect to any Loan Asset at the time such Loan Asset is sold hereunder. Without limiting the foregoing, (x) the Issuer does not assume any obligation to purchase any additional notes or loans under agreements governing the Loan Assets and (y) the sale, transfer, assignment, set-over and conveyance of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor Originator to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an assumption by the Trust Depositor or the Issuer of any obligation of the Seller Originator as lead agent or collateral agent under any Agented Loan or Co-Agented Loan. The Trust Depositor also hereby assigns to the Issuer all of the Trust Depositor’s right, title and interest (but none of its obligations) under the Sale and Contribution Agreement, including but not limited to the Trust Depositor’s right to exercise the remedies created by the Sale and Contribution Agreement. (ef) The Seller, Trust Depositor Originator and the Issuer intend and agree that (i) the each transfer of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor under the Sale and Contribution Agreement and the transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor Originator to the Issuer hereunder are is intended to be a sale, conveyance and transfer of ownership of the Loan Assets, as the case may be, rather than the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing and (ii) such Loan Assets shall not be part of the Seller’s or the Trust DepositorOriginator’s estate in the event of a filing of a bankruptcy petition or other action by or against such Person the Originator under any Insolvency Law. In the event, however, that notwithstanding such intent and agreement, such transfers are deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure indebtedness, the Seller Originator shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants to) the Trust Depositor and the Trust Depositor shall be deemed to have granted (and as of the Closing Date hereby grants) to the Issuer, as the case may be, Issuer a perfected first priority security interest in all right, title and interest of the Seller or of the Trust Depositor, respectively, Originator in such all Loan Assets and the proceeds thereof and this Agreement shall constitute a security agreement under Applicable Law, securing the repayment of the purchase price paid hereunder, the obligations and/or interests represented by the SecuritiesNotes, in the order and priorities, and subject to the other terms and conditions of, this Agreement, the Indenture Agreement and the Trust AgreementIndenture, together with such other obligations or interests as may arise hereunder and thereunder in favor of the parties hereto and thereto. (f) If any such transfer of the Loan Assets is deemed to be the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing, the Trust Depositor may, to secure the Trust Depositor’s own borrowing under this Agreement (to the extent that the transfer of the Loan Assets thereunder is deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing) repledge and reassign (i) all or a portion of the Loan Assets pledged to Trust Depositor by the Seller and with respect to which the Trust Depositor has not released its security interest at the time of such pledge and assignment, and (ii) all proceeds thereof. Such repledge and reassignment may be made by Trust Depositor with or without a repledge and reassignment by Trust Depositor of its rights under any agreement with the Seller, and without further notice to or acknowledgment from the Seller. The Seller waives, to the extent permitted by applicable law, all claims, causes of action and remedies, whether legal or equitable (including any right of setoff), against Trust Depositor or any assignee of Trust Depositor relating to such action by Trust Depositor in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. (g) The Trust Depositor and the Issuer acknowledge and agree (and the Trustee is hereby directed to acknowledge and does acknowledge) that, solely for administrative convenience, any assignment agreement required to be executed and delivered in connection with the transfer of a Loan in accordance with the terms of related Underlying Loan Agreements may reflect that the Seller is assigning such Loan directly to the Issuer. Nothing in such assignment agreements shall be deemed to impair the transfers of the Loan Assets by the Seller to the Trust Depositor in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Sale and Contribution Agreement, as applicable, and the subsequent transfer of the Loan Assets by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof.

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Samples: Sale and Servicing Agreement (Horizon Technology Finance Corp)

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