Limitation on Rights of Certificateholders The death or incapacity of any Certificateholder shall not operate to terminate this Agreement or the trust created hereby, nor entitle such Certificateholder's legal representative or heirs to claim an accounting or to take any action or commence any proceeding in any court for a petition or winding up of the trust created hereby, or otherwise affect the rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties hereto or any of them. No Certificateholder shall have any right to vote (except as provided herein) or in any manner otherwise control the operation and management of the Trust Fund, or the obligations of the parties hereto, nor shall anything herein set forth or contained in the terms of the Certificates be construed so as to constitute the Certificateholders from time to time as partners or members of an association; nor shall any Certificateholder be under any liability to any third party by reason of any action taken by the parties to this Agreement pursuant to any provision hereof. No Certificateholder shall have any right by virtue or by availing itself of any provisions of this Agreement to institute any suit, action or proceeding in equity or at law upon or under or with respect to this Agreement, unless such Holder previously shall have given to the Trustee a written notice of an Event of Default and of the continuance thereof, as herein provided, and unless the Holders of Certificates evidencing not less than 25% of the Voting Rights evidenced by the Certificates shall also have made written request to the Trustee to institute such action, suit or proceeding in its own name as Trustee hereunder and shall have offered to the Trustee such reasonable indemnity as it may require against the costs, expenses, and liabilities to be incurred therein or thereby, and the Trustee, for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity shall have neglected or refused to institute any such action, suit or proceeding; it being understood and intended, and being expressly covenanted by each Certificateholder with every other Certificateholder and the Trustee, that no one or more Holders of Certificates shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue or by availing itself or themselves of any provisions of this Agreement to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of the Holders of any other of the Certificates, or to obtain or seek to obtain priority over or preference to any other such Holder or to enforce any right under this Agreement, except in the manner herein provided and for the common benefit of all Certificateholders. For the protection and enforcement of the provisions of this Section 10.08, each and every Certificateholder and the Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in equity.
The Trust Certificates The Trust Certificates shall represent in the aggregate a 100% Percentage Interest in the Trust. On the date hereof, the Depositor or its designee shall be the sole Certificateholder of each of the Trust Certificates and each of the Trust Certificates shall be registered, upon initial issuance, in the name of the Depositor or its designee. The Trust Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the Trust by manual or facsimile signature of an Authorized Officer of the Owner Trustee. Trust Certificates bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were, at the time when such signatures shall have been affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of the Owner Trustee, shall be validly issued and entitled to the benefit of this Agreement, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them shall have ceased to be so authorized prior to the authentication and delivery of such Trust Certificates or did not hold such offices at the date of authentication and delivery of such Trust Certificates. A transferee of a Trust Certificate shall become a Certificateholder and shall be entitled to the rights and subject to the obligations of a Certificateholder hereunder upon such transferee’s acceptance of a Trust Certificate duly registered in such transferee’s name pursuant to Section 3.04.
Amendments With Consent of Certificateholders and Noteholders This Agreement may be amended from time to time by the Depositor and the Owner Trustee with the consent of Noteholders whose Notes evidence not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date and, if any Person other than the Depositor or an Affiliate of the Depositor holds any Certificates, the consent of the Majority Certificateholders as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date (which consent, whether given pursuant to this Section 8.2 or pursuant to any other provision of this Agreement, shall be conclusive and binding on such Person and on all future holders of such Notes or Certificates and of any Notes or Certificates issued upon the transfer thereof or in exchange thereof or in lieu thereof whether or not notation of such consent is made upon any Notes or Certificates) for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Agreement, or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders; provided, however, that no such amendment shall (a) without the consent of the holder of the affected Note or Certificate, as applicable, increase or reduce the interest rate or principal amount of any Note or change any Distribution Date or the Final Scheduled Distribution Date of any Note or distributions on the Certificates (without the consent of the holders hereof), (b) increase or reduce the amount of the required Specified Reserve Account Balance without the consent of all of the Noteholders or Certificateholders then outstanding, (c) adversely affect the rating of any Securities by any of the Rating Agencies without the consent of the holders of two-thirds of the Outstanding Amount of an affected class of Notes or two-thirds of the Voting Interests of affected Certificates, as appropriate, each as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date or (d) reduce the aforesaid percentage required to consent to any such amendment, without the consent of the holders of all Notes and Certificates then outstanding. The Depositor shall furnish notice to each of the Rating Agencies prior to obtaining consent to any proposed amendment under this Section 8.2. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, an Opinion of Counsel shall be delivered to the effect that such amendment would not cause the Trust to fail to qualify as a grantor trust for United States federal income tax purposes.
Statements to Certificateholders and Noteholders (a) On each Determination Date the Servicer shall provide to the Indenture Trustee (with a copy to the Rating Agencies), for the Indenture Trustee to make available to each Noteholder of record, and, if NH Credit or an Affiliate is not the Servicer or the Depositor is not the sole Certificateholder, to the Indenture Trustee (if the Indenture Trustee is responsible on the related Payment Date to make the payment required under Section 5.2(a) of the Trust Agreement) or the Trustee (if the Trustee is responsible on the related Payment Date to make the payment required under Section 5.2(a) of the Trust Agreement), for the Indenture Trustee or Trustee, as applicable, to forward to each Certificateholder of record, a statement substantially in the form of Exhibit C, setting forth at least the following information as to each Class of the Notes and the Certificates to the extent applicable:
(i) the amount of such distribution allocable to principal of each Class of Notes;
(ii) the amount of the distribution allocable to interest on each Class of Notes;
(iii) the amount to be distributed to the Certificateholders;
(iv) the Pool Balance as of the close of business on the last day of the preceding Collection Period;
(v) the aggregate Outstanding Amount and the Note Pool Factor for each Class of Notes as of such Payment Date, after giving effect to payments allocated to principal reported under clause (i) above;
(vi) [Reserved];
(vii) the amount of the Servicing Fee paid to the Servicer with respect to the preceding Collection Period;
(viii) the amount of the Administration Fee paid to the Administrator in respect of the preceding Collection Period;
(ix) the amount of the aggregate Realized Losses, if any, for such Collection Period;
(x) the aggregate Purchase Amounts for Receivables, if any, that were repurchased or purchased in such Collection Period;
(xi) the balance of the Spread Account on the related Payment Date, after giving effect to changes therein on such Payment Date;
(xii) [Reserved];
(xiii) [Reserved];
(xiv) [Reserved];
(xv) [Reserved];
(xvi) [Reserved];
(xvii) [Reserved];
(xviii) [Reserved];
(xix) [Reserved];
(xx) the Specified Spread Account Balance. The Indenture Trustee will make the statement to Noteholders available each month to Noteholders and other parties to the Basic Documents via the Indenture Trustee’s internet website, which is presently located at xxxx://xx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx. Persons who are unable to use the above website are entitled to have a paper copy mailed to them via first class mail by calling the Indenture Trustee at (000) 000-0000. The Indenture Trustee shall have the right to change the way the statement to Noteholders is distributed in order to make such distribution more convenient and/or more accessible to the above parties and to the Noteholders. The Indenture Trustee shall provide timely and adequate notification to all above parties and to the Noteholders regarding any such change. In connection with any electronic transmissions of information, including without limitation, the use of electronic mail or internet or intranet web sites, the systems used in such transmissions are not fully tested by the Indenture Trustee and may not be completely reliable as to stability, robustness and accuracy. Accordingly, the parties hereto acknowledge and agree that information electronically transmitted as described herein may not be relied upon as timely, accurate or complete and that the Indenture Trustee shall have no liability hereunder in connection with such information transmitted electronically. The parties hereto further acknowledge that any and all systems, software or hardware utilized in posting or retrieving any such information are utilized on an “as is” basis without representation or warranty as to the intended uses of such systems, software or hardware. The Indenture Trustee makes no representation or warranty that the systems and the related software used in connection with the electronic transmission of information are free and clear of threats known as software and hardware viruses, time bombs, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, or other malicious computer instructions, intentional devices or techniques which may cause a component or system to become erased, damaged, inoperable, or otherwise incapable of being used in the manner to which it is intended, or which would permit unauthorized access thereto.
Ownership of Common Securities by Depositor (a) On the Closing Date, the Depositor shall acquire, and thereafter shall retain, beneficial and record ownership of the Common Securities. Neither the Depositor nor any successor Holder of the Common Securities may transfer less than all the Common Securities, and the Depositor or any such successor Holder may transfer the Common Securities only (i) in connection with a consolidation or merger of the Depositor into another Person, or any conveyance, transfer or lease by the Depositor of its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person (in which event such Common Securities will be transferred to such surviving entity, transferee or lessee, as the case may be), pursuant to Section 8.1 of the Indenture or (ii) to the Depositor or an Affiliate of the Depositor, in each such case in compliance with applicable law (including the Securities Act, and applicable state securities and blue sky laws). To the fullest extent permitted by law, any attempted transfer of the Common Securities other than as set forth in the immediately preceding sentence shall be void. The Administrative Trustees shall cause each Common Securities Certificate issued to the Depositor to contain a legend stating substantially “THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE EXCEPT IN COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAW AND SECTION 5.11 OF THE TRUST AGREEMENT.”
(b) Any Holder of the Common Securities shall be liable for the debts and obligations of the Trust in the manner and to the extent set forth with respect to the Depositor and agrees that it shall be subject to all liabilities to which the Depositor may be subject and, prior to becoming such a Holder, shall deliver to the Administrative Trustees an instrument of assumption satisfactory to such Trustees.
Actions by Certificateholders (a) Wherever in this Agreement a provision is made that an action may be taken or a Notice given by Certificateholders, such action or Notice may be taken or given by any Certificateholder, unless such provision requires a specific percentage of Certificateholders.
(b) Any Notice, request, authorization, direction, consent, waiver or other act by the Holder of a Certificate shall bind such Holder and every subsequent Holder of such Certificate and of any Certificate issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done or omitted to be done by the Trustee or the Servicer in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Certificate.
Restrictions on Certificateholders’ Power The Certificateholders shall not direct the Owner Trustee to take or to refrain from taking any action if such action or inaction would be contrary to any obligation of the Trust or the Owner Trustee under this Trust Agreement or any of the Basic Documents or would be contrary to Section 2.03, nor shall the Owner Trustee be obligated to follow any such direction, if given.
Owner Trustee May Own Trust Certificates and Notes The Owner Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Trust Certificates or Notes and may deal with the Depositor, the Administrator, the Indenture Trustee and the Servicer in banking transactions with the same rights as it would have if it were not Owner Trustee.
Covenants of the Certificateholders Each Certificateholder, by becoming an owner of a Certificate and beneficial owner of the Issuer, hereby acknowledges and agrees (a) that the Certificateholder is subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Certificate and this Agreement, to which the Certificateholder agrees to be bound; and (b) that it shall not take any position in such Certificateholder’s tax returns inconsistent with Section 2.6 herein and Section 2.14 of the Indenture.
Purchase Rights of Certificateholders (a) At any time after the occurrence and during the continuation of a Triggering Event, each Applicable Certificateholder and Class C-1 Certificateholder (each, a "CLASS C CERTIFICATEHOLDER") shall have the right (which shall not expire upon any purchase of the Class A-2 Certificates pursuant to the Class A-1 Trust Agreement, any purchase of the Class A-1 Certificates pursuant to the Class A-2 Trust Agreement or any purchase of the Class A-1 Certificates and the Class A-2 Certificates pursuant to the Class B Trust Agreement) to purchase, for the purchase prices set forth in the Class A-1 Trust Agreement, the Class A-2 Trust Agreement and the Class B Trust Agreement, respectively, all, but not less than all, of the Class A-1 Certificates, the Class A-2 Certificates and the Class B Certificates upon ten days' written notice to the Class A-1 Trustee, the Class A-2 Trustee, the Class B Trustee and (x) if such purchasing Class C Certificateholder is an Applicable Certificateholder, each other Applicable Certificateholder and either (I) if the Class C-1 Trustee shall have made a current list of Class C-1 Certificateholders available to such purchasing Class C Certificateholder upon a request therefor, each Class C-1 Certificateholder, or (II) if clause (I) is not applicable, the Class C-1 Trustee, or (y) if such purchasing Class C Certificateholder is a Class C-1 Certificateholder, each other Class C-1 Certificateholder and either (I) if the Trustee shall have made a current list of Applicable Certificateholders available to such purchasing Class C Certificateholder upon a request therefor, each Applicable Certificateholder, or (II) if clause (I) is not applicable, the Trustee, PROVIDED that (i) if prior to the end of such ten-day period any other Class C Certificateholder notifies such purchasing Class C Certificateholder that such other Class C Certificateholder wants to participate in such purchase, then such other Class C Certificateholder may join with the purchasing Class C Certificateholder to purchase all, but not less than all, of the Class A-1 Certificates, the Class A-2 Certificates and the Class B Certificates pro rata based on the Class C Fractional Undivided Interest held by each such Class C Certificateholder and (ii) if prior to the end of such ten-day period any other Class C Certificateholder fails to notify the purchasing Class C Certificateholder of such other Class C Certificateholder's desire to participate in such a purchase, then such other Class C Certificateholder shall lose its right to purchase the Class A-1 Certificates, the Class A-2 Certificates and the Class B Certificates pursuant to this Section 4.01(a). After the occurrence and during the continuation of a Triggering Event, the Trustee either shall comply with any request of a Class C-1 Certificateholder for a current list of Applicable Certificateholders or shall forthwith notify each Applicable Certificateholder of any notice received by it from any Class C-1 Certificateholder of its exercise of its rights under the Agreement and the Other Agreements to purchase the Class A-1 Certificates, the Class A-2 Certificates and the Class B Certificates.
(b) At any time after the occurrence and during the continuation of a Triggering Event, if the Class C-1 Trustee is then the Controlling Party, each Applicable Certificateholder shall have the right (which shall not expire upon any purchase of the Class A-2 Certificates pursuant to the Class A-1 Trust Agreement, any purchase of the Class A-1 Certificates pursuant to the Class A-2 Trust Agreement, any purchase of the Class A-1 Certificates and the Class A-2 Certificates pursuant to the Class B Trust Agreement or any purchase of Certificates pursuant to clause (a) above) to purchase, for the purchase price set forth in the Class C-1 Trust Agreement, all, but not less than all, of the Class C-1 Certificates upon ten days' written notice to the Class C-1 Trustee and each other Applicable Certificateholder, PROVIDED that (i) if prior to the end of such ten-day period any other Applicable Certificateholder notifies such purchasing Applicable Certificateholder that such other Applicable Certificateholder wants to participate in such purchase, then such other Applicable Certificateholder may join with the purchasing Applicable Certificateholder to purchase all, but not less than all, of the Class C-1 Certificates pro rata based on the Fractional Undivided Interest in the Applicable Trust held by each such Applicable Certificateholder and (ii) if prior to the end of such ten-day period any other Applicable Certificateholder fails to notify the purchasing Applicable Certificateholder of such other Applicable Certificateholder's desire to participate in such a purchase, then such other Applicable Certificateholder shall lose its right to purchase the Class C-1 Certificates pursuant to this Section 4.01(b).
(c) By acceptance of its Applicable Certificate, each Applicable Certificateholder agrees that at any time after the occurrence and during the continuation of a Triggering Event,
(i) if the Trustee is then the Controlling Party, each Class C-1 Certificateholder shall have the right (which shall not expire upon any purchase of the Class A-2 Certificates pursuant to the Class A-1 Trust Agreement, any purchase of the Class A-1 Certificates pursuant to the Class A-2 Trust Agreement, any purchase of the Class A-1 Certificates and the Class A-2 Certificates pursuant to the Class B Trust Agreement or any purchase of Certificates pursuant to clause (a) above) to purchase all, but not less than all, of the Applicable Certificates upon ten days' written notice to the Trustee and each other Class C-1 Certificateholder, PROVIDED that (A) if prior to the end of such ten-day period any other Class C-1 Certificateholder notifies such purchasing Class C-1 Certificateholder that such other Class C-1 Certificateholder wants to participate in such purchase, then such other Class C-1 Certificateholder may join with the purchasing Class C-1 Certificateholder to purchase all, but not less than all, of the Applicable Certificates pro rata based on the Fractional Undivided Interest in the Class C-1 Trust held by each such Class C-1 Certificateholder and (B) if prior to the end of such ten-day period any other Class C-1 Certificateholder fails to notify the purchasing Class C-1 Certificateholder of such other Class C-1 Certificateholder's desire to participate in such a purchase, then such other Class C-1 Certificateholder shall lose its right to purchase the Applicable Certificates pursuant to this Section 4.01(c); and
(ii) each holder of a Class D Certificate (a "CLASS D CERTIFICATEHOLDER") shall have the right (which shall not expire upon any purchase of the Class A-2 Certificates pursuant to the Class A-1 Trust Agreement, any purchase of the Class A-1 Certificates pursuant to the Class A-2 Trust Agreement, any purchase of the Class A-1 Certificates and the Class A-2 Certificates pursuant to the Class B Trust Agreement or any purchase of Certificates pursuant to clause (a), (b) or (c)(i) above) to purchase all, but not less than all, of the Class A-1 Certificates, the Class A-2 Certificates, the Class B Certificates, the Class C-1 Certificates and the Applicable Certificates upon ten days' written notice to the Class A-1 Trustee, the Class A-2 Trustee, the Class B Trustee, the Class C-1 Trustee, the Trustee and each other Class D Certificateholder, PROVIDED that (A) if prior to the end of such ten-day period any other Class D Certificateholder notifies such purchasing Class D Certificateholder that such other Class D Certificateholder wants to participate in such purchase, then such other Class D Certificateholder may join with the purchasing Class D Certificateholder to purchase all, but not less than all, of the Class A-1 Certificates, the Class A-2 Certificates, the Class B Certificates, the Class C-1 Certificates and the Applicable Certificates pro rata based on the Fractional Undivided Interest in the Class D Trust held by each such Class D Certificateholder and (B) if prior to the end of such ten-day period any other Class D Certificateholder fails to notify the purchasing Class D Certificateholder of such other Class D Certificateholder's desire to participate in such a purchase, then such other Class D Certificateholder shall lose its right to purchase the Class A-1 Certificates, the Class A-2 Certificates, the Class B Certificates, the Class C-1 Certificates and the Applicable Certificates pursuant to this Section 4.01(c). The purchase price with respect to the Applicable Certificates shall be equal to the Pool Balance of the Applicable Certificates, together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the date of such purchase, without premium, but including any other amounts then due and payable to the Applicable Certificateholders under the Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement, the Escrow Agreement or any Note Document or on or in respect of the Applicable Certificates; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that no such purchase of Applicable Certificates shall be effective unless the purchaser(s) shall certify to the Trustee that contemporaneously with such purchase, such purchaser(s) is (are) purchasing, pursuant to the terms of the Agreement and the Other Agreements, (A) in the case of any purchase of the Applicable Certificates pursuant to clause (c)(i) above, all of the Applicable Certificates, or (B) in all other cases, the Class A-1 Certificates, the Class A-2 Certificates, the Class B Certificates, the Class C-1 Certificates and the Applicable Certificates that are senior to the securities held by such purchaser(s). Each payment of the purchase price of the Applicable Certificates referred to in the first sentence hereof shall be made to an account or accounts designated by the Trustee and each such purchase shall be subject to the terms of this Section 4.01(b). Each Applicable Certificateholder agrees by its acceptance of its Applicable Certificate that (at any time after the occurrence and during the continuation of a Triggering Event) it will, upon payment from such Class C-1 Certificateholder(s) or Class D Certificateholder(s), as the case may be, of the purchase price set forth in the first sentence of this paragraph, (i) forthwith sell, assign, transfer and convey to the purchaser(s) thereof (without recourse, representation or warranty of any kind except for its own acts), all of the right, title, interest and obligation of such Applicable Certificateholder in the Agreement, the Escrow Agreement, the Deposit Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement, the Liquidity Facility, the NPA, the Note Documents and all Applicable Certificates and Escrow Receipts held by such Applicable Certificateholder (excluding all right, title and interest under any of the foregoing to the extent such right, title or interest is with respect to an obligation not then due and payable as respects any action or inaction or state of affairs occurring prior to such sale) (and the purchaser shall assume all of such Applicable Certificateholder's obligations under the Agreement, the Escrow Agreement, the Deposit Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement, the Liquidity Facility, the NPA, the Note Documents and all such Applicable Certificates and Escrow Receipts), (ii) if such purchase occurs after a record date specified in Section 2.03 of the Escrow Agreement relating to the distribution of unused Deposits and/or accrued and unpaid interest on Deposits and prior to or on the related distribution date thereunder, forthwith turn over to the purchaser(s) of its Applicable Certificate all amounts, if any, received by it on account of such distribution, and (iii) if such purchase occurs after a Record Date relating to any distribution and prior to or on the related Distribution Date, forthwith turn over to the purchaser(s) of its Applicable Certificate all amounts, if any, received by it on account of such distribution. The Applicable Certificates will be deemed to be purchased on the date payment of the purchase price is made notwithstanding the failure of the Applicable Certificateholders to deliver any Applicable Certificates and, upon such a purchase, (I) the only rights of the Applicable Certificateholders will be to deliver the Applicable Certificates to the purchaser(s) and receive the purchase price for such Applicable Certificates and (II) if the purchaser(s) shall so request, such Applicable Certificateholder will comply with all the provisions of Section 3.04 of the Basic Agreement to enable new Applicable Certificates to be issued to the purchaser in such denominations as it shall request. All charges and expenses in connection with the issuance of any such new Applicable Certificates shall be borne by the purchaser thereof.
