Construction; Certain Defined Terms (a) The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words “include”, “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation”. The word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall”. Unless the context requires otherwise, (i) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument, other document, statute or regulation herein shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument, other document, statute or regulation as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified, (ii) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns, but shall not be deemed to include the subsidiaries of such Person unless express reference is made to such subsidiaries, (iii) the words “herein”, “hereof and “hereunder”, and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to this Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof, (iv) all references herein to Articles, Sections and Annexes shall be construed to refer to Articles, Sections and Annexes of this Agreement, (v) unless otherwise expressly qualified herein, the words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights and (vi) the term “or” is not exclusive.
(b) As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings specified below:
Certain Defined Terms As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings (such meanings to be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of the terms defined):
Interpretation; Certain Definitions The parties hereto have participated jointly in the negotiation and drafting of this Agreement. Consequently, in the event an ambiguity or question of intent or interpretation arises, this Agreement shall be construed as if drafted jointly by the parties hereto, and no presumption or burden of proof shall arise favoring or disfavoring any party by virtue of the authorship of any provision of this Agreement. References to “this Agreement” shall include the Company Disclosure Letter and the Parent Disclosure Letter. When a reference is made in this Agreement to an Article, Section, Appendix, Annex or Exhibit, such reference shall be to an Article or Section of, or an Appendix, Annex or Exhibit to, this Agreement, unless otherwise indicated. The table of contents and headings for this Agreement are for reference purposes only and shall not affect in any way the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement. Whenever the words “include,” “includes” or “including” are used in this Agreement, they shall be deemed to be followed by the words “without limitation.” The words “hereof,” “herein” and “hereunder” and words of similar import when used in this Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement. All terms defined in this Agreement shall have the defined meanings when used in any certificate or other instrument made or delivered pursuant hereto unless otherwise defined therein. The definitions contained in this Agreement are applicable to the singular as well as the plural forms of such terms and to the masculine as well as to the feminine and neuter genders of such term. Any Law defined or referred to herein or in any agreement or instrument that is referred to herein means such Law as from time to time amended, modified or supplemented, including (in the case of statutes) by succession of comparable successor Laws. References to a Person are also to its successors and permitted assigns. All references to “dollars” or “$” refer to currency of the United States of America (unless otherwise expressly provided herein).
Certain Definitions For purposes of this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings indicated:
Captions: Certain Definitions The captions of the various sections and paragraphs of this Agreement have been inserted only for the purposes of convenience; such captions are not a part of this Agreement and shall not be deemed in any manner to modify, explain, enlarge or restrict any of the provisions of this Agreement. As used in this Agreement the term “person” shall mean and include an individual, a partnership, a joint venture, a corporation, a limited liability company, a trust, an unincorporated organization and a government or any department or agency thereof.
Certain Additional Defined Terms In addition to such terms -------------------------------- as are defined in the opening paragraph and in Section 1.1 of this Agreement, the following terms are used in this Agreement as defined in the Sections set forth opposite such terms:
Absence of Certain Changes, Events and Conditions Since the Interim Balance Sheet Date, and other than in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice as contemplated herein, there has not been, with respect to the Companies, any:
(a) event, occurrence or development that has had, or could reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Business Material Adverse Effect;
(b) amendment of such entities’ chartering documents;
(c) split, combination or reclassification of any shares of its limited liability company/membership interests, capital stock or other equity interests;
(d) except any transaction that may occur pursuant to the WSDA Agreement, issuance, sale or other disposition of any of its limited liability company/membership interests, capital stock or other equity interests, or grant of any options, warrants or other rights to purchase or obtain (including upon conversion, exchange or exercise) any of its limited liability company/membership interests, capital stock or other equity interests;
(e) declaration or payment of any dividends or distributions on or in respect of any of its limited liability company/membership interests, capital stock or other equity interests, or redemption, purchase or acquisition of its limited liability company/membership interests, capital stock or other equity interests;
(f) material change in any method of accounting or accounting practice, except as required by GAAP or SAP or as disclosed in the notes to the Financial Statements;
(g) material change in its cash management practices and its policies, practices and procedures with respect to collection of accounts receivable, establishment of reserves for uncollectible accounts, accrual of accounts receivable, inventory control, prepayment of expenses, payment of trade accounts payable, accrual of other expenses, deferral of revenue and acceptance of customer deposits;
(h) entry into any contract that would constitute a Material Contract;
(i) incurrence, assumption or guarantee of any Indebtedness for borrowed money except unsecured current obligations and Liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice;
(j) transfer, assignment, sale or other disposition of any material assets shown or reflected in the Interim Balance Sheet or cancellation of any debts or entitlements;
(k) transfer, assignment or grant of any license or sublicense of any material rights under or with respect to any Company Intellectual Property or Company IP Agreements;
(l) material damage, destruction or loss (whether or not covered by insurance) to an asset material to it;
(m) capital investment in, or any loan to, any other Person;
(n) acceleration, termination, material modification to or cancellation of any Material Contract to which it is a party or by which it is bound;
(o) material capital expenditures;
(p) imposition of any Encumbrance upon its properties, capital stock or assets, tangible or intangible;
(i) grant of any bonuses, whether monetary or otherwise, or increase in any wages, salary, severance, pension or other compensation or benefits in respect of the Companies current or former employees, directors, officers, managers, independent contractors or consultants, other than
(A) in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practices, (B) as provided for in any written agreements or (C) as required by applicable Law, (ii) change in the terms of employment for any employee or any termination of any employees for which the aggregate costs and expenses exceed $10,000, or (iii) action to accelerate the vesting or payment of any compensation or benefit for any current or former employee, officer, director, manager, independent contractor or consultant;
(r) hiring or promoting any person as or to (as the case may be) an officer or hiring or promoting any employee below officer except to fill a vacancy in the ordinary course of business;
(s) adoption, modification or termination of any: (i) employment, severance, retention or other agreement with any current or former employee, officer, director, manager, independent contractor or consultant, (ii) Plan or (iii) collective bargaining or other agreement with a union, in each case whether written or oral;
(t) loan to (or forgiveness of any loan to), or entry into any other transaction with, any of its shareholders or members, or current or former directors, managers, officers and employees;
(u) entry into a new line of business or abandonment or discontinuance of existing lines of business;
(v) except for this Agreement, adoption of any plan of merger, consolidation, reorganization, liquidation or dissolution or filing of a petition in bankruptcy under any provisions of federal or state bankruptcy Law or consent to the filing of any bankruptcy petition against it under any similar Law;
(w) purchase, lease or other acquisition of the right to own, use or lease any property or assets for an amount in excess of $100,000 individually (in the case of a lease, per annum) or $100,000 in the aggregate (in the case of a lease, for the entire term of the lease, not including any option term), except for purchases of inventory or supplies in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice;
(x) acquisition by merger or consolidation with, or by purchase of a substantial portion of the assets or stock or limited liability company/membership interests of, or by any other manner, any business or any Person or any division thereof;
(y) action by it to make, change or revoke any material election in respect of Taxes (except as required by Law), change an annual accounting period, adopt or change any accounting method with respect to Taxes except as may be required as a result of a change in Law, make any material agreement or settlement with respect to Taxes, file any amended Tax return, surrender any right to claim a refund of Taxes, or consent to any extension or waiver of the limitation period applicable to any Tax claim or assessment;
(z) entry, issuance, or filing, with or without the request or consent or over the objection of it, or any order, consent order, of directive relating to any Company of or by any Applicable Regulator, or undertaking or agreement by such Company to or with any Applicable Regulator; or
(aa) Contract to do any of the foregoing, or any action or omission that would result in any of the foregoing.
Additional Defined Terms Other capitalized terms defined elsewhere in the Agreement and not defined in Section 13.1 will have the meanings assigned to such terms in this Agreement in the sections referenced below: Adjustment Amount Section 2.2(f) Agreement Preamble Allocation Section 2.4 Assigned Contracts Section 1.1(f) Assigned Home Sale Contracts Section 1.1(c) Assigned Permits Section 1.1(g) Assignment and Assumption Agreement Section 8.1(d) Assumed Liabilities Section 1.3 Base Purchase Price Section 2.1(a) Xxxx of Sale Section 8.1(c) Buyer Introduction Buyer Indemnified Party Section 10.1 Closing Section 2.2 Closing Date Section 2.2 Closing Net Asset Value Section 2.2(b) Closing Statement Section 2.2(b) Confidential Information Section 5.3(a) Cooperation Indemnitees Section 6.4(a) Deductible Section 10.5(b) Deed Section 8.1(b) Determination Date Section 2.2(e) Dispute Notice Section 2.2(c) Disputed Items Section 2.2(c) Escrow Account Section 2.1(b)(i) Estimated Closing Statement Section 2.2(a) Estimated Net Asset Value Section 2.2(a) Estimated Purchase Price Section 2.1(a) Excluded Assets Section 1.2 Excluded Liabilities Section 1.4 Financial Statements Section 3.5 Financing Section 6.4(a) Financing Sources Section 6.4(b) General Indemnification Period Section 10.4 Holding Indemnity Agreement Section 8.1(f) Home Sale Contract Section 3.12 Home Sale Contract Deposits Section 1.1(d) Indemnification Cap Section 10.5(a) Indemnified Party Section 10.3(a) Indemnifying Party Section 10.3(a) Insured Bonds Section 6.3 Inter-Party Claim Section 10.3(a) Land Recital A Latest Balance Sheet Section 3.5 Latest Balance Sheet Date Section 3.5 Liable Party Section 10.9 Nonassignable Asset Section 1.6 Other Contracts Section 1.1(f) Owned Real Property Section 1.1(a) Party Introduction Personal Property Section 1.1(b) Pre-Closing Period Section 5.1(a) Projections Section 12.6 Property Taxes Section 7.1 Purchased Assets Section 1.1 Purchased Assets Conditions Section 6.1 Real Estate Transfer Taxes Section 7.2 Removed Real Property Section 1.5 Resolution Period Section 2.2(d) Seller Introduction Seller Indemnified Party Section 10.2 Seller Transaction Documents Section 3.1 Tax Representations Section 10.4 Termination Date Section 11.1(b) Third Party Claim Section 10.3(b) Title Policy Section 6.2 Title Pro Forma Section 6.2 Transaction Recital B Unresolved Items Section 2.2(e) Warranty Services Agreement Section 8.1(e)
INDEX OF DEFINED TERMS 15Ga-1 Notice 21 Accountant’s Due Diligence Report 16 Affected Loan(s) 19 Agreement 1 Bank of America Lender Successor Borrower Right 22 Xxxx of Sale 2 Certificate Administrator 1 Certificate Purchase Agreement 1 Certificates 1 Closing Date 2 Collateral Information 11 Crossed Mortgage Loans 18 Cure Request 17 Custodian 1 Defective Mortgage Loan 18 Dispute 21 Final Judicial Determination 21 Final Memorandum 2 Indemnification Agreement 14 Initial Purchasers 1 Master Servicer 1 Material Breach 17 Material Document Defect 17 Mortgage File 3 Mortgage Loan Schedule 2 Mortgage Loans 1 Mortgage Note 1 Mortgagor 1 MOU 27 Officer’s Certificate 7 Other Mortgage Loans 1 Pooling and Servicing Agreement 1 Preliminary Memorandum 2 Private Certificates 1 Prospectus Supplement 2 Public Certificates 1 Purchaser 1 Repurchase Request 21 Seller 1 Seller Reporting Information 14 Seller’s Information 14 Special Servicer 1 Trust 1 Trust Advisor 1 Trustee 1 UCC 5 Underwriters 1 Underwriting Agreement 1 Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement (this “Agreement”), dated July 24, 0000, xxxxxxx Xxxx xx Xxxxxxx, National Association (“Seller”) and Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Capital I Inc. (“Purchaser”). Seller agrees to sell, and Purchaser agrees to purchase, certain mortgage loans listed on Exhibit 1 hereto (the “Mortgage Loans”), each of which is evidenced by one or more related notes or other evidence of indebtedness (each a “Mortgage Note”) evidencing the indebtedness of the related obligor under the related Mortgage Loan (each a “Mortgagor”). Purchaser will convey the Mortgage Loans to a trust (the “Trust”) created pursuant to a Pooling and Servicing Agreement (the “Pooling and Servicing Agreement”), to be dated as of August 1, 2015, between Purchaser, as depositor, Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association, as master servicer (in such capacity, the “Master Servicer”), certificate administrator (in such capacity, the “Certificate Administrator”), custodian (in such capacity, the “Custodian”), certificate registrar and authenticating agent, Midland Loan Services, a Division of PNC Bank, National Association, as special servicer (the “Special Servicer”), Park Bridge Lender Services LLC, as trust advisor (the “Trust Advisor”), and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”). In exchange for the Mortgage Loans and certain other mortgage loans to be purchased by Purchaser (collectively the “Other Mortgage Loans”), the Trust will issue to the Depositor pass-through certificates to be known as Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Bank of America Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Trust 2015-C24, Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2015-C24 (the “Certificates”). The Certificates will be issued pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement. Capitalized terms used herein but not defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement. The Class A-1, Class A-2, Class A-SB, Class A-3, Class A-4, Class X-A, Class A-S, Class B and Class C Certificates (the “Public Certificates”) will be sold by Purchaser to Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co. LLC, Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated, CIBC World Markets Corp. and Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, LLC, as underwriters (in such capacities, the “Underwriters”), pursuant to an Underwriting Agreement, between Purchaser, Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Mortgage Capital Holdings LLC and the Underwriters, dated as of the date hereof (the “Underwriting Agreement”), and the Class X-B, Class X-D, Class D, Class E, Class F, Class G, Class V and Class R Certificates (the “Private Certificates”) will be sold by Purchaser to Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co. LLC and Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated, as initial purchasers (in such capacities, the “Initial Purchasers”) pursuant to a Certificate Purchase Agreement, between Purchaser, Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Mortgage Capital Holdings LLC and the Initial Purchasers, dated as of the date hereof (the “Certificate Purchase Agreement”). The Underwriters will offer the Public Certificates for sale publicly pursuant to a Prospectus dated October 1, 2013, as supplemented by a Prospectus Supplement dated the date hereof (together, the “Prospectus Supplement”), and the Initial Purchasers will offer the Private Certificates for sale in transactions exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 pursuant to a Private Placement Memorandum dated the date hereof (the “Final Memorandum”) and a preliminary version thereof dated July 15, 2015 (as supplemented by the preliminary private placement memorandum supplement, dated July 20, 2015, the “Preliminary Memorandum”). In consideration of the mutual agreements contained herein, Seller and Purchaser hereby agree as follows:
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