CUSTODIAN CONTRACT This Contract between each fund or series of a fund listed on Appendix A which evidences its agreement to be bound hereby by executing a copy of this Contract (each such fund is individually hereafter referred to as the "Fund"), and State Street Bank and Trust Company, a Massachusetts trust company, having its principal place of business at 225 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxxx, 00000, xxreinafter called the "Custodian",
Underlying Instruments Notwithstanding any term hereof (or any term of the UCC that might otherwise be construed to be applicable to a “securities intermediary” as defined in the UCC) to the contrary, none of the Collateral Agent nor any Securities Intermediary shall be under any duty or obligation in connection with the acquisition by the Borrower, or the grant by the Borrower of a security interest to the Collateral Agent, of any Loan to examine or evaluate the sufficiency of the documents or instruments delivered to it by or on behalf of the Borrower under the related Underlying Instruments, or otherwise to examine the Underlying Instruments, in order to determine or compel compliance with any applicable requirements of or restrictions on transfer (including without limitation any necessary consents). The Collateral Agent shall hold any Instrument delivered to it evidencing any Loan transferred to the Collateral Agent hereunder as custodial agent for the Secured Parties in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
Custodian and Depository The Trustees may in their discretion from time to time enter into one or more contracts whereby the other party or parties undertakes to act as depository for and to maintain custody of the property of the Trust or any Series or Class and accounting records in connection therewith.
Interest Rate Risk Management Instruments (a) All interest rate swaps, caps, floors and option agreements and other interest rate risk management arrangements to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which any of their properties or assets may be bound were entered into in the Ordinary Course of Business and in accordance with prudent banking practice and applicable rules, regulations and policies of Company Regulatory Agencies and with counterparties believed to be financially responsible at the time, and are legal, valid and binding obligations enforceable in accordance with their terms (except as may be limited by general principles of equity, whether applied in a court of law or a court of equity, and by bankruptcy, insolvency and similar Laws affecting creditors’ rights and remedies generally), and are in full force and effect. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries has duly performed in all material respects all of its obligations thereunder to the extent that such obligations to perform have accrued; and, to the Knowledge of the Company, there are no breaches, violations or defaults or allegations or assertions of such by any party thereunder.
Custodian Agreement The Custodian Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, between the Custodian and the Depositor, as amended, supplemented or modified from time to time. Cutoff Date: June 1, 2016.
Securities Contract The parties hereto agree and acknowledge as of the date hereof that (i) the Seller is a “financial institution” within the meaning of Section 101(22) of Title 11 of the United States Code (the “Bankruptcy Code”) and (ii) this Confirmation is a “securities contract,” as such term is defined in Section 741(7) of the Bankruptcy Code, entitled to the protection of Sections 362(b)(6) and 555 of the Bankruptcy Code.
Custodian's Acts Without Instructions Unless and until Custodian receives an officers' certificate to the contrary, Custodian shall: (a) present for payment all coupons and other income items held by it for the account of the Fund, which call for payment upon presentation and hold the cash received by it upon such payment for the account of the Fund; (b) collect interest and cash dividends received, with notice to the Fund, for the account of the Fund; (c) hold for the account of the Fund hereunder all stock dividends, rights and similar securities issued with respect to any securities held by it hereunder; and (d) execute, as agent on behalf of the Fund, all necessary ownership certificates required by the Internal Revenue Code or the Income Tax Regulations of the United States Treasury Department or under the laws of any state now or hereafter in effect, inserting the Fund's name on such certificates as the owner of the securities covered thereby, to the extent it may lawfully do so.
Risk Management Instruments Except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect, all derivative instruments, including, swaps, caps, floors and option agreements, whether entered into for the Company’s own account, or for the account of one or more of the Company Subsidiaries or its or their customers, were entered into (i) only in the ordinary course of business, (ii) in accordance with prudent practices and in all material respects with all applicable laws, rules, regulations and regulatory policies and (iii) with counterparties believed to be financially responsible at the time; and each of such instruments constitutes the valid and legally binding obligation of the Company or one of the Company Subsidiaries, enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as may be limited by the Bankruptcy Exceptions. Neither the Company or the Company Subsidiaries, nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any other party thereto, is in breach of any of its obligations under any such agreement or arrangement other than such breaches that would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect.
Custodian Notification The Custodian shall notify the Fund or its designee of rights or discretionary corporate actions as promptly as practicable under the circumstances, provided that the Custodian has actually received notice of such right or discretionary corporate action from the relevant Foreign Custodian, Depository or otherwise. Absent actual receipt of such notice, the Custodian shall have no liability for failing to so notify the Fund.
Documents, Instruments, and Chattel Paper The Borrower represents and warrants to the Agent and the Lenders that (a) all documents, instruments, and chattel paper describing, evidencing, or constituting Collateral, and all signatures and endorsements thereon, are and will be complete, valid, and genuine, and (b) all goods evidenced by such documents, instruments, and chattel paper are and will be owned by the Borrower, free and clear of all Liens other than Permitted Liens.