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• Introductory Matters (a) The parties have formed the Company pursuant to the provisions of the Act by filing the Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State. (b) The purpose of the Company shall be to own and operate the Property and Improvements as investments and for income-producing purposes, as the successor-in-interest by merger to the Partnership. The Company shall have no other intended purpose nor engage in any other business, except as set forth above, and shall be operated independently of the Phase I Partnership, except to the extent that coordination between the Phase I Project and the Project is determined by the mutual determination of the respective Management Committees of the Company and the Phase I Partnership to be mutually beneficial in connection with their operation. (c) The term of the Company commenced upon the filing of the Articles of Organization for the Company and shall end on December 31, 2035 unless the Company is terminated or dissolved sooner, in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement. (d) The Company shall maintain its principal place of business at 300 Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000, or any other location mutually agreed upon by the Members. (e) The name and address of the Company's agent for service of process is Mxxxxxx Partners, 300 Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxxxxx, XX 00000.

• Introductory Provisions The account holder shall be responsible for payments in accordance with this agreement and shall also be responsible for ensuring that all users of the Eurocard Purchasing Account are aware of and comply with this agreement and the user manuals and instructions from Eurocard applicable at any given time. A user can be an administrator or another person that has been authorised by the account holder to use Eurocard Purchasing Account

• INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT The Board of Directors of each of Parent and the Company have determined that this Agreement and the business combination and related transactions contemplated hereby are advisable and that it is in the best interests of their respective companies and stockholders to consummate the strategic business combination transaction provided for herein, pursuant to which (i) Merger Sub will, subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, merge with and into the Company (the “First-Step Merger”), so that the Company is the surviving corporation in the First-Step Merger and a wholly-owned Subsidiary of Parent and (ii) immediately thereafter, the Company, as the surviving corporation in the First-Step Merger, will merge (the “Second-Step Merger” and, together with the First-Step Merger, the “Integrated Mergers”) with and into Parent, with Parent being the surviving corporation. The parties hereto intend that the Integrated Mergers shall together be treated as a single integrated transaction that qualifies as a “reorganization” under the provisions of Section 368(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “IRC”) and that this Agreement is intended to be, and is adopted as, a plan of reorganization for purposes of Sections 354, 361 and 368 of the IRC and within the meaning of Treasury regulation section 1.368-2(g). Parent and the Company each desire to make certain representations, warranties and agreements in connection with the business combination and related transactions provided for herein and to prescribe various conditions to such transactions. Concurrently with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, as a condition and inducement to Parent’s willingness to enter into this Agreement, certain stockholders of the Company have entered into an agreement pursuant to which each such stockholder has agreed, among other things, to vote his, her or its shares of Company Common Stock in favor of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby. Concurrently with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, as a condition and inducement to the Company’s willingness to enter into this Agreement, certain stockholders of Parent have entered into an agreement pursuant to which each such stockholder has agreed, among other things, to vote his or her shares of Parent Common Stock in favor of the issuance of shares of Parent Common Stock in connection with the First-Step Merger. In consideration of their mutual promises and obligations hereunder, the parties hereto adopt and make this Agreement and prescribe the terms and conditions hereof and the manner and basis of carrying it into effect, which shall be as follows:

• Introductory Period Employees will be hired into a six (6) month introductory period for the first six (6) months of continuous employment. An employee will become a regular employee after successful completion of the introductory period. An employee removed from the introductory period will not have recourse to the grievance procedure to contest the removal.

• Introductory Toyota Leasing, Inc., a California corporation (the “Seller”) and a wholly owned subsidiary of Toyota Motor Credit Corporation, a California corporation (“TMCC”), proposes to issue $[______] aggregate principal amount of [___]% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-1 (the “Class A-1 Notes”), $[______] aggregate principal amount of [___]% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-2 (the “Class A-2 Notes”), $[______] aggregate principal amount of [___]% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-3 (the “Class A-3 Notes”), $[______] aggregate principal amount of [___]% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-4 (the “Class A-4 Notes”) and $[______] aggregate principal amount of [___]% Asset Backed Notes, Class B (the “Class B Notes” and together with the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes and the Class A-4 Notes, the “Notes”) and non-interest bearing certificates that represent the residual interest in the Trust (the “Certificates”) of the Toyota Auto Lease Trust 20[__]-[__] (the “Trust”). Pursuant to the terms hereof, the Seller agrees to sell to each of the several underwriters named in Schedule I hereto (the “Underwriters”) a portion of each of the [describe the classes of underwritten notes] (the “Underwritten Notes”) in the respective amount listed on Schedule I hereto. The Seller, TMCC or one or more of its affiliates initially will retain [[describe the classes of retained notes] that are not Underwritten Notes and] the Certificates, which will not be sold hereunder. [__________],[__________] and [__________] will act as representatives for the Underwriters, and in such capacities shall herein be the “Representatives”. The assets of the Trust will include, among other things, a special unit of beneficial interest issued by the Toyota Lease Trust (the “Titling Trust”) which entitles the holder thereof to lease payments generated by a portfolio of retail lease contracts owned by the Titling Trust and the proceeds from the sale of the motor vehicles (or equivalent cash amounts substituted under a vehicle like-kind exchange program) leased under those contracts, and certain monies received thereunder after the close of business on [_____] (the “Cutoff Date”). The Notes will be issued pursuant to the Indenture to be dated as of [_____] (the “Indenture”), between the Trust and [_____] (the “Indenture Trustee”). TMCC has caused the Seller to form the Trust pursuant to a trust agreement, as amended and restated by the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement (the “Trust Agreement”), dated as of [_____], [among]/[between] the Seller [and] [______], a [____], as owner trustee (the “Owner Trustee”) [and [______], a [____], as Delaware trustee (the “Delaware Trustee”)]. TMCC, as administrator (in such capacity, the “Administrator”) will perform certain administrative tasks on behalf of the Trust, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee imposed on them under the Basic Documents (as defined below) pursuant to an Administration Agreement (the “Administration Agreement”) dated as of [_____] among the Trust, the Indenture Trustee and the Administrator. The Titling Trust was created to take assignments and conveyances of, and to hold in trust, various leases, vehicles and certain related assets (collectively, the “Trust Assets”). The Titling Trust was formed and is governed by an amended and restated titling trust and servicing agreement, dated as of October 1, 1996, as amended or supplemented from time to time (the “Titling Trust Agreement”), among TMCC (in such capacity, the “UTI Beneficiary”), TMTT, Inc., as trustee (the “Titling Trustee”) and U.S. Bank Trust National Association (formerly First Bank National Association), as trust agent (the “Trust Agent”). Pursuant to a supplement of the Titling Trust Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date (the “SUBI Supplement”, and together with the Titling Trust Agreement, the “SUBI Trust Agreement”), among the parties to the Titling Trust Agreement, the Titling Trustee will be directed by the UTI Beneficiary to establish a special unit of beneficial interest to be known as the “[____]-[_] SUBI.” The Titling Trustee will allocate a portfolio consisting of lease agreements (the “[____]-[_] Leases”) and the related specified vehicles (the “[____]-[_] Vehicles”) and certain other related assets to the [____]-[_] SUBI (collectively, the “SUBI Assets”). The SUBI Assets will be serviced by TMCC (in such capacity, the “Servicer”) pursuant to a [____]-[_] SUBI servicing supplement to the Titling Trust Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date (the “SUBI Servicing Supplement” and, together with the Titling Trust Agreement, the “Servicing Agreement”), in each case among the Titling Trustee, the Servicer and the Trust Agent. In connection with the creation of the [____]-[_] SUBI, the Titling Trust will issue to the UTI Beneficiary a certificate (the “SUBI Certificate”) representing the entire beneficial interest in the [____]-[_] SUBI. Pursuant to a SUBI certificate transfer agreement, dated as of the Closing Date (the “SUBI Certificate Transfer Agreement”), between the Seller and the UTI Beneficiary, the UTI Beneficiary will sell the SUBI Certificate to the Seller. Pursuant to a SUBI certificate transfer agreement, dated as of the Closing Date (the “Issuer SUBI Certificate Transfer Agreement”), between the Seller and the Trust, the Seller will sell the SUBI Certificate to the Trust.

• Other Definitional and Interpretive Matters Unless otherwise expressly provided, for purposes of this Agreement, the following rules of interpretation shall apply:

• Definitions and Interpretations The terms "specifically approved at least annually," "vote of a majority of the outstanding voting securities," "assignment," "affiliated person," and "interested person," when used in this Agreement, shall have the respective meanings specified, and shall be construed in a manner consistent with, the Investment Company Act of 1940 and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. Any question of interpretation of any term or provision of this Agreement having a counterpart in or otherwise derived from a term or provision of the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Securities Act of 1933, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (collectively, the "Federal Securities Acts") shall be resolved by reference to such term or provision of the Federal Securities Acts and to interpretations thereof, if any, by United States federal courts or, in the absence of any controlling decisions of any such court, by rules or regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Where the effect of a requirement of the Federal Securities Acts reflected in any provision of this Agreement is revised by rule or regulation of the Securities and Exchange Commission, such provisions shall be deemed to incorporate the effect of such rule or regulation.

• Other Definitional and Interpretative Provisions The words “hereof”, “herein” and “hereunder” and words of like import used in this Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement. The captions herein are included for convenience of reference only and shall be ignored in the construction or interpretation hereof. References to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules are to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules of this Agreement unless otherwise specified. All Exhibits and Schedules annexed hereto or referred to herein are hereby incorporated in and made a part of this Agreement as if set forth in full herein. Any capitalized terms used in any Exhibit or Schedule but not otherwise defined therein, shall have the meaning as defined in this Agreement. Any singular term in this Agreement shall be deemed to include the plural, and any plural term the singular. Whenever the words “include”, “includes” or “including” are used in this Agreement, they shall be deemed to be followed by the words “without limitation”, whether or not they are in fact followed by those words or words of like import. “Writing”, “written” and comparable terms refer to printing, typing and other means of reproducing words (including electronic media) in a visible form. References to any statute shall be deemed to refer to such statute as amended from time to time and to any rules or regulations promulgated thereunder. References to any agreement or contract are to that agreement or contract as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof; provided that with respect to any agreement or contract listed on any schedules hereto, all such amendments, modifications or supplements must also be listed in the appropriate schedule. References to any Person include the successors and permitted assigns of that Person. References from or through any date mean, unless otherwise specified, from and including or through and including, respectively. References to “law”, “laws” or to a particular statute or law shall be deemed also to include any and all Applicable Law.

• Agreement Preamble Ancillary Agreements Section 4.4(a) Associate Section 8.11 Business Recitals CFC Section 4.17(f) Closing Section 3.1 Closing Date Section 3.1 Code Section 4.17(f) Company Preamble Company Intellectual Property Section 4.8(a) Company Owned Intellectual Property Section 4.8(b) Consideration Shares Section 2.2 Constitutional Documents Section 4.4(a) Conversion Shares Section 2.5 Disclosure Schedule Section 4 Domestic Company Preamble Equity Value of the Company Section 2.3(i) FCPA Section 4.19 HKIAC Section 9.17(b) HK Subsidiary Preamble Indemnitee Section 9.1(a) Indemnifiable Loss Section 9.1(a) Investor Preamble Investor’s Partners Section 8.17(b) Key Employee Section 4.22 Key Holders Preamble Lease Section 4.7(b) Licenses Section 4.8(e) Management Founder Preamble Management Founder Holdco Preamble Market Capitalization of Xunlei Section 2.3(ii) Material Adverse Effect Section 4.1 Material Contract Section 4.9 OFAC Section 4.18(a) OFAC Sanctions Section 4.18(a) OFAC Sanctioned Person Section 4.18(b) Ordinary Shares Section 2.5 Personal Information Section 4.30 PFIC Section 4.17(g) Public Software Section 4.8(g) Purchased Shares Section 2.1 Restriction Period Section 8.11 Restricted Share Agreement Section 6.1(f) SDN List Section 4.18(b) Secretary Section 4.18(a) Series D Investor(s) Recitals Series D Preferred Shares Recitals Series D Special Redemption Section 8.24 Series D Special Redemption Shareholder Section 8.24 Special Redemption Consideration Shares Section 8.24 Special Redemption Price Section 8.24 Subpart F Income Section 8.17(b) Transaction Documents Section 4.4(a) UNCITRAL Rules Section 9.16(b) United States Person Section 4.18(c) WFOE Preamble Xunlei Group Section 8.5(b)

• Recitals and Definitions Each of the parties hereto acknowledges and agrees that the recitals set forth above in this Agreement are true and accurate, are contractual in nature, and are hereby incorporated into and made a part of this Agreement.