Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “Certificate Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Seller. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates. (b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others. (c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied. Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c). (d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Mbna America Bk Nat Assoc Mbna Master Credit Card Trust Ii), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (BA Credit Card Trust), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (BA Credit Card Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the its Corporate Trust Office, such office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the Trustee) (the "Transfer Agent and Registrar Registrar") shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for shall initially be the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates Trustee, and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-co- transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European citychosen by the Trustee and acceptable to the Servicer. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' (60 days' during an Amortization Period) written notice to the Transferor and the Servicer. In the event ; provided, however, that such resignation shall not be effective and the Trustee shall no longer be the continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar until the Servicer has appointed a Successor Trustee pursuant to Section 11.07, the which Successor Trustee shall appoint a act as the successor Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar hereunder. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Investor Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar maintained for such purpose, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Investor Certificates (of the same Series) in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that Fractional Interests in the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer CertificatesAggregate Certificateholders' Interest. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates (of the same Series Series) in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided InterestsFractional Interests in the Certificateholders' Interest, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Pooling and Servicing Agreement Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and or the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions Each Holder must satisfy all transfer restrictions set forth in the Certificates. Each Investor Certificate shall be registered at all times as herein provided, and any transfer or exchange of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, such Investor Certificate will be valid for purposes hereunder only upon registration of such transfer or exchange by the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, Registrar as provided herein. Payments on any Distribution Date shall be made to Holders of record on the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days immediately preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such SeriesRecord Date. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar or any co-transfer agent and co-registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange or exchange, or for payment, shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar cancelled and disposed of in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Seller. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of ManhattanNew York, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 6.03, no registration of transfer of any Investor Certificate shall be made unless the Transferor or the transferee shall deliver, at its expense, to the Transferor, the Servicer and the Trustee a representation letter, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit D to this Agreement, stating that such transferee is not a "benefit plan investor" as defined in Section 2510.3101(f)(2) of the Labor Regulations promulgated under ERISA; provided, however that this provision shall not apply to any Enhancement Provider.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Muehlstein Holding Corp), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Muehlstein Holding Corp)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, Corporate Trust Office a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the Trustee) (the "Transfer Agent and Registrar Registrar") shall provide for the registration of the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, shall initially be the Trustee mayand any co-transfer agent and co-registrar chosen by the Transferors and acceptable to the Trustee, or including, if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European cityLuxembourg. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. The Trustee Transferors may revoke such appointment and remove any Transfer Agent and Registrar if the Transferors, after consultation with the Trustee, determine in their sole discretion that such transfer Agent and Registrar failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. Any Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written ' notice to the Servicer. In the event that Transferors, the Trustee and the Servicer; provided, however, that such resignation shall no longer not be the effective and such Transfer Agent and Registrar, Registrar shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar until the Trustee shall appoint Transferors have appointed a successor Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar reasonably acceptable to the Trustee. Upon Subject to subsection 6.04(c) below, upon surrender for registration of transfer or exchange of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose, one or more new Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders' Interest shall be executed, authenticated and delivered, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees. At the option of a Registered Certificateholder, subject to subsection 6.04(c) below, Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders' Interest, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency; Registered Certificates, including Registered Certificates received in exchange for Bearer CertificateholderCertificates, may not be exchanged for Bearer Certificates. At the option of the Holder of a Bearer Certificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules)regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates (of the same Series in and Class) of authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests fractional undivided interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such SeriesCertificateholders' Interest, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, ; provided that any Bearer Certificate Certificate, so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date payment date or distribution date after the related Series Termination Date expected final payment date need not have attached the Coupons Coupon relating to such Distribution Datepayment date or distribution date (in each case, as specified in the applicable Supplement). The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Certificate for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificate. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferors shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than shall deliver (in the Trusteecase of Bearer Certificates, in which case outside the Transfer Agent and Registrar shallUnited States) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Investor Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and or the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Investor Certificateholder thereof or his the attorney-in-fact thereof duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such transfer or exchange of Certificatesexchange. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer CertificatesCoupons) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange or for payment shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Euro-Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferors. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each a Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Euro-Certificates. The Seller Transferors shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement Agreement, each Supplement and the Certificates. The interest of any Investor Certificateholder in the Trust shall not be transferable other than through the transfer of an Investor Certificate, and except as provided in this Article VI, a Certificate shall not be transferable or divisible.
(b) Except The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, and, if and so long as provided any Series or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, Luxembourg, an office or agency where Investor Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (except that Bearer Certificates may not be surrendered for exchange at any such office or agency in the United States or its territories and possessions).
(c) (i) Registration of transfer of Investor Certificates containing a legend substantially to the effect set forth on Exhibit G-1 shall be effected only if such transfer (x) is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Act, or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Act, and (y) is made to a Person which is not an employee benefit plan, trust or account, including an individual retirement account, that is subject to ERISA or that is described in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received 4975(e)
(1) confirmation of the Code or an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in writing such entity (a "Benefit Plan"). In the event that registration of a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result the registration requirements under the Act, the transferor or the transferee shall deliver, at its expense, to the Transferors, the Servicer and the Trustee, an investment letter from the transferee, substantially in a lowering or withdrawal the form of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificatesthe investment and ERISA representation letter attached hereto as Exhibit G-2, and (2) no registration of transfer shall be made until such letter is so delivered. Investor Certificates issued upon registration or transfer of, or Investor Certificates issued in exchange for, Investor Certificates bearing the legend referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the Transferor, the Servicer, the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar receive an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any Counsel, satisfactory to each of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; providedthem, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to legend may be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Coderemoved. In connection with any transfer of Whenever an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement referred to above is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer Transferors regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent transfer and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer an officer of each Transferor prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may betransfer. The Servicer Transferors hereby agrees agree to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on relation to any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(cclause (i).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (American Express Credit Account Master Trust), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (American Express Credit Account Master Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the “Trustee) (the "Transfer Agent and Registrar”), ") in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, subsection 6.03(c) of the Agreement a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes purpose of registering the Investor Registered Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days' written notice to the Transferors and the Servicer; provided, however, that such resignation shall not be effective and the Trustee shall continue to perform the duties of Transfer Agent and Registrar until the Transferors have appointed a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar acceptable to the Transferors and the Trustee. If specified in the related Supplement for any form Series of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global CertificateCertificates, the Trustee mayTransferors shall appoint any co-transfer agent and co-registrar chosen by the Transferors, or and acceptable to the Trustee, including, if and so long as any Series of Investor the Registered Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange or other stock exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European citythe location required by such other stock exchange. Any If specified in such related Supplement, so long as the Registered Certificates relating to such Supplement are outstanding, the Transferors shall maintain a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in New York City or any other city designated in such Supplement and any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrarrequires otherwise. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar maintained for such purpose, the Seller Transferors shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, transferee one or more new Registered Certificates in authorized denominations of the same Series representing like aggregate Undivided InterestsInterests in the Trust; provided, however, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor any Registered Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules)regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. , Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons Coupon relating to such Distribution Date. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange of any Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates of such Series. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferors shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than shall deliver (in the Trusteecase of Bearer Certificates, in which case outside the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliverUnited States), the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact attorney duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, Except as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related any Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee or any co-transfer agent and co-registrar or co-trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and or exchange shall be canceled cancelled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the TrusteeTrustee and the Transferors. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy mutilate the Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction such cancelled and mutilated Global Certificate to the SellerTransferors. Such certificate The Trustee shall also state that forward to the Transferors a copy of each certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 6.10 of the Agreement which was received by the Trustee with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferors shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section Sections 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may beand 7.02, the uncertificated Transferors' interest in the Seller Interest Exchangeable Transferor Certificate shall not be sold, transferred, assigned, exchanged, pledged, participated or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in partotherwise conveyed, unless (A) (i) the Seller shall have consented Servicer has delivered to the Trustee an Officer's Certificate stating that such sale, transfer, assignment, exchange, pledge or conveyance will not, while any Series of Certificates remains outstanding, reduce the Transferors' retained interest in writing the Exchangeable Transferor Certificate below the Minimum Transferor Percentage for any Series then outstanding and (ii) the Trustee receives prior to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) sale, transfer, assignment, exchange, pledge, participation or conveyance written confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer transfer, assignment, exchange, pledge, participation or conveyance will not result in a lowering such Rating Agency's reducing or withdrawal of withdrawing its then-existing rating of on any then outstanding Series of Investor Certificates, and rated by it or (2B) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted assignment, exchange, pledge or conveyance is made to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest CRC and, in the Seller Interestcase of (A), as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with receives prior thereto an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (x) the contemplated transfer would conveyed interest in the Transferor Exchangeable Certificate will be treated as either debt or an interest in a financing and not as a sale partnership for federal Federal income tax purposes; provided further, purposes and that no the conveyance of such interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would will not cause the Trust to be treated characterized for Federal income tax purposes as an association taxable as a publicly traded partnership under corporation or otherwise have any material adverse impact on the Code. In connection with Federal or applicable state income taxation of any transfer outstanding Series of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller Investor Certificates or any subsequent transfereeCertificate Owner and (y) thereof shall such transfer will not sell, trade or transfer cause a taxable event for federal income tax purposes to any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of othersInvestor Certificateholder.
(c) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, Luxembourg (or subject to Section 6.03(a) of the Agreement any other city designated in such Supplement)), an office or offices or agency or agencies where Investor Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (except that Bearer Certificates may not be surrendered for exchange at any such office or agency in the United States).
(d) Unless otherwise provided in the any related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if:
(i) (a) the sale is of at least U.S $500,000 principal amount of such Certificates and (b) a letter from the purchaser satisfactory to counsel to the Servicer is executed and received; or
(ii) (a) the Registered Certificates are transferred in compliance with Rule 144 (or any amendment thereto) or Rule 144A (or any amendment thereto) under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and (b) a letter from the purchaser satisfactory to counsel to the Servicer is executed and received; or
(iii) the Registered Certificates are sold or otherwise transferred in any other transaction that does not require registration under the United States Securities Act of 1933 as amended, and, if the conditions set forth Transferor, the Servicer, the Trustee, the Transfer Agent or Registrar so request, an Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to it, in form and substance satisfactory to it, is furnished to such related Supplement are satisfiedeffect. Registered Certificates issued upon registration of transfer of, or Registered Certificates issued in exchange for, Registered Certificates bearing the legend referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the Transferor, the Servicer, the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar receive an Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to each of them, to the effect that such legend may be removed.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek written instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Retired Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on and in accordance with any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c6.03(d).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Master Pooling and Servicing Agreement (American Express Centurion Bank), Master Pooling and Servicing Agreement (American Express Centurion Bank)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, 11.16 a register (the “Certificate Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the Trustee) (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar Registrar”) shall provide for the registration of the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges shall be, as of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If date hereof, The Bank of New York and any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificateco-transfer agent and co-registrar chosen by the Transferor and acceptable to the Trustee, the Trustee may, or including if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European cityLuxembourg. So long as any Investor Certificates are outstanding, the Transferor shall maintain a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in New York City. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. The Trustee may revoke such appointment and remove any Transfer Agent and Registrar if the Trustee determines in its sole discretion that such Transfer Agent and Registrar failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. Any Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written thirty (30) days notice to the Servicer. In the event that Transferor, the Trustee and the Servicer; provided, however, that such resignation shall no longer not be the effective and such Transfer Agent and Registrar, Registrar shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar until the Trustee shall appoint Transferor has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar reasonably acceptable to the Trustee. Upon Subject to paragraph (c) below, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose, one or more new Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders’ Interest shall be executed, authenticated and delivered, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees. At the option of a Registered Certificateholder, Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders’ Interest, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency; Registered Certificates, including Registered Certificates received in exchange for Bearer CertificateholderCertificates, may not be exchanged for Bearer Certificates. At the option of the Holder of a Bearer Certificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules)regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates (of the same Series in and Class) of authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests fractional undivided interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such SeriesCertificateholders’ Interest, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, ; provided that any Bearer Certificate Certificate, so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date payment date or distribution date after the related Series Termination Date expected final payment date need not have attached the Coupons Coupon relating to such Distribution Datepayment date or distribution date (in each case, as specified in the applicable Supplement). Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than shall deliver (in the Trusteecase of Bearer Certificates, in which case outside the Transfer Agent and Registrar shallUnited States) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Investor Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and or the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Investor Certificateholder thereof or his the attorney-in-fact thereof duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such transfer or exchange of Certificatesexchange. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer CertificatesCoupons) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange or for payment shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Euro-Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each a Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Euro-Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement Agreement, each Supplement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall each of the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may beBorough of Manhattan, the uncertificated interest City of New York, and, if and so long as any Series or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, Luxembourg, an office or agency where Investor Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (except that Bearer Certificates may not be surrendered for exchange at any such office or agency in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, United States).
(c) (i) Registration of transfer of Investor Certificates containing a legend substantially to the effect set forth on Exhibit E-1 shall be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to effected only if such transfer and unless (x) is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing Act, or is exempt from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificatesthe registration requirements under the Act, and (2y) is made to a Person which is not an Opinion of Counsel employee benefit plan, trust or account, including an individual retirement account, that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached is subject to ERISA or that is described in any Section 4975(e)(1) of the federal income tax opinions dated Code or an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan’s investment in such entity (a “Benefit Plan”). In the applicable Closing Date event that registration of a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the registration requirements under the Act, the transferor or the transferee shall deliver, at its expense, to the Transferor, the Servicer and the Transfer Agent and Registrar, an investment letter from the transferee, substantially in the form of the investment and ERISA representation letter attached hereto as Exhibit E-2, and no registration of transfer shall be made until such letter is so delivered. Investor Certificates issued upon registration or transfer of, or Investor Certificates issued in connection with exchange for, Investor Certificates bearing the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that legend referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transferTransferor, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller InterestServicer, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with and the Transfer Agent and Registrar receive an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel, satisfactory to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided furthereach of them, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to legend may be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Coderemoved. In connection with any transfer of Whenever an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement referred to above is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer Transferor regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent transfer and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer an officer of the Transferor prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may betransfer. The Servicer Transferor hereby agrees agree to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on relation to any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(cclause (i).
(d) . The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject Transferor’s obligations pursuant to this Section 6.03, if specified in 6.04(c)(i) shall not constitute a claim against the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates Transferor to the extent the Transferor does not have funds sufficient to make payment of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchangeobligations.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Capital One Funding, LLC), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Capital One Funding, LLC)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “"Transfer Agent and Registrar”"), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-co- registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee Transferor shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Holder of a Bearer CertificateholderCertificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United StatesStates of America. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than from the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Exchangeable Transferor Certificate or any interest therein, therein or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Transferor Interest or any interest therein, be transferred transferred, sold, exchanged, pledged, participated or otherwise assigned hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller Transferor shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2x) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer (i) does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would (ii) will not cause the Trust to be treated as a deemed to be an association or "publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder partnership" (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(17704(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 Code) taxable as a corporation and (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (iiy) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests any such transfer, sale, exchange, pledge, participation or assignment to an entity which is not an Affiliate of the Transferor, confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates. The Transferor shall give each Rating Agency notice of any such transfer, sale, exchange, pledge, participation or assignment to an Affiliate of the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of othersTransferor.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Bank One Delaware National Association), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (First Usa Credit Card Master Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “Certificate Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer co‑transfer agent and co-registrar co‑registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer co‑transfer agent and co-registrar co‑registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the ServicerServicer and the Transferor. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agencyagency of the Transferor Agent and Registrar. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact its attorney‑in‑fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or Section 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Transferor Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Transferor Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller Transferor shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing then‑existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Transferor Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Transferor Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”). In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Transferor Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Transferor Interest, the holder (including the Seller Transferor or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Transferor Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Transferor Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer Transferor regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer an officer of the Transferor prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer Transferor hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c). The Transferor’s obligation pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c) shall not constitute a claim against the Trust Assets and shall only constitute a claim against the Transferor to the extent the Transferor has funds sufficient to make payment on such obligations from amounts paid to it as Holder of the Transferor Interest.
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (BA Credit Card Trust), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (BA Master Credit Card Trust II)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “Certificate Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee Bank of New York is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee The Bank of New York or any successor shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c6.3(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, however that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 6.3 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than from the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 6.3 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates upon its the exchange thereof in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 6.12 was received with respect to each portion of the such Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 6.9 or 7.02 7.2 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Transferor Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Transferor Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller Transferor shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Tax Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in such transfer (a copy of which shall be provided to the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of othersRating Agencies).
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set sat forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c6.3(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.036.3, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (First Usa Credit Card Master Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “"Transfer Agent and Registrar”"), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed the initial Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein providedRegistrar. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-co- transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-co- transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c6.3(c), Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, provided that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor CertificateholderHolder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Holder of a Bearer CertificateholderCertificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 6.3 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder Holder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 6.3 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 2.9, 6.9 or 7.02 7.2 or in any Supplementthis subsection 6.3(b), in no event Transferor shall not transfer the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Transferor Interest or any interest therein. Transferor may from time to time transfer a portion of the Transferor Interest by causing the issuance of one or more additional certificates (each a "Supplemental Certificate"), the terms of which shall be transferred hereunderdefined in a Supplement (which Supplement shall be subject to Section 13.1(a) to the extent that it amends any of the terms of this Agreement), to be delivered to or upon the order of Transferor (or the Holder of a Supplemental Certificate, in whole the case of the transfer or in partexchange thereof, unless as provided below), upon satisfaction of the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the following conditions:
(i) Trustee shall have received an Officer's Certificate of Transferor certifying that the Transferor Interest shall not be less than the Minimum Transferor Interest, in each case as of the date of, and after giving effect to, such exchange;
(1ii) confirmation in writing from the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied with respect to such exchange (or transfer or exchange as provided below); and
(iii) Transferor shall have delivered to Trustee and each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor CertificatesTax Opinion, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection date of such exchange (or transfer or exchange as provided below), with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller respect thereto. Any Supplemental Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) exchanged only upon satisfaction of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or conditions set forth in clauses (ii) a “secondary market and (or the substantial equivalent thereofiii)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to shall indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c6.3(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of ManhattanNew York, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.036.3, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an any agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
(e) The Certificates of any Series (or if there is more than one Class in a Series, each Class) may not be acquired with the plan assets of (i) any "employee benefit plan" as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA, which is subject to Title I of ERISA, or (ii) any "plan" as defined in Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code (each a "Benefit Plan"), unless such Series (or Class) has been registered under Section 12(b) or Section 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and the underwriter or underwriters for such Series (or Class) notifies Transferor and Trustee that as of the date immediately following the conclusion of the offering, the Certificates of such Series (or Class) have been sold to at least 100 separately named persons. If the Certificates of any Series (or Class) may not be acquired with plan assets because the foregoing requirements are not satisfied, then each purchaser and each transferee of such Certificates will be deemed to represent and warrant that it is not purchasing such Certificates with plan assets of a Benefit Plan.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (First National Bank of Commerce)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “Certificate Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Certificate Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee First Union National Bank, is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar including, if and so long as any Series is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg, unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. The Trustee may revoke such appointment, or any subsequent appointment, and remove the Transfer Agent and Registrar if the Trustee determines in its sole discretion that the Transfer Agent and Registrar has failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. The Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ notice to the Seller, the Servicer, the Trustee and each Purchaser Representative; provided, that such resignation shall not be effective and the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar until the Trustee has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar reasonably acceptable to the Seller. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Trustee shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Trust Interests; provided. Registered Certificates, that the provisions of this paragraph shall including Registered Certificates received in exchange for Bearer Certificates, may not apply to be exchanged for Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer CertificateholderCertificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules)regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates (of the same Series in Certificate Series) of authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such SeriesTrust Interests, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons; provided, provided that any Bearer Certificate Certificate, so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date payment date after the related Series Termination Date expected final payment date need not have attached the Coupons Coupon relating to such Distribution Datepayment date (in each case as specified in the related Supplement). At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Certificate Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Trust Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Certificate Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliverdeliver (in the case of Bearer Certificates, outside the United States), the Investor Certificates of such Certificate Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 6.3 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Certificate Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Certificate Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer CertificatesCoupons) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Euro-Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Seller. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each a Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Euro-Certificates. The Seller shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or 7.02 6.9 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Exchangeable Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, therein be transferred hereunder, in whole or in partpart to a person other than the Seller or an Affiliate of the Seller, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received a Tax Opinion.
(1c) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that (i) Registration of transfer of Investor Certificates containing a legend substantially to the effect set forth on Exhibit H-1 shall be effected only if such transfer will not result in a lowering (x) is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act, or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificatesis exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act, and (2y) is made to a Person which is not an employee benefit plan, trust or account, including an individual retirement account, that is subject to ERISA or that is described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code or an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan’s investment in such entity (a “Benefit Plan”). In the event that registration of a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the registration requirements under the Securities Act, the transferor or the transferee shall deliver, at its expense, to the Seller, the Servicer and the Trustee, an investment letter from the transferee, substantially in the form of the investment and ERISA representation letter attached hereto as Exhibit H-2, and no registration of transfer shall be made until such letter is so delivered. Investor Certificates issued upon registration or transfer of, or Investor Certificates issued in exchange for, Investor Certificates bearing the legend referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the Seller, the Servicer, the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar receive an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any Counsel, satisfactory to each of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; providedthem, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to legend may be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Coderemoved. In connection with any transfer of Whenever an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement referred to above is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent transfer and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may betransfer. The Servicer Seller hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without gross negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on relation to any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(cclause (i).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Alliance Data Systems Corp)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “"Transfer Agent and Registrar”"), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee Transferor may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee Transferor shall appoint a co-co- transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-co- registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee Transferor shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c6.3(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, however that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 6.3 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-attorney- in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 6.3 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trusteeits customary manner. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the such Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 6.9 or 7.02 7.2 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Transferor Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, therein be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller Transferor shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) written confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, satisfy the Rating Agency Condition and (2) an a Tax Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of otherssuch transfer.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set sat forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c6.3(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.036.3, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Dillard Asset Funding Co)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, 6.04(b) a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (the "Transfer Agent and Registrar Registrar") shall provide for the registration of the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for shall initially be the purposes of registering Trustee and any co-transfer agent and co-registrar chosen by the Investor Certificates Seller and transfers and exchanges of acceptable to the Investor Certificates as herein providedTrustee. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall shall, appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. The Trustee shall be permitted Subject to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar paragraph (c) below, upon 30 days’ written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose, one or more new Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders' Interest shall be executed, authenticated and delivered, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees. At the option of a Registered Certificateholder, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) of authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders' Interest, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency maintained for that purpose; Registered Certificates, including Registered Certificates received in exchange for Bearer CertificateholderCertificates, may not be exchanged for Bearer Certificates. At the option of the Holder of a Bearer Certificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules)regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates (of the same Series in and Class) of authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests fractional undivided interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such SeriesCertificateholders' Interest, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, ; provided that any Bearer Certificate Certificate, so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination expected final Distribution Date need not have attached the Coupons Coupon relating to such Distribution DateDate (in each case, as specified in the applicable Supplement). The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Certificate for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificate. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver (unless in the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than case of Bearer Certificates, outside the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shallUnited States) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Investor Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Investor Certificateholder thereof or his the attorney-in-fact thereof duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such transfer or exchange of Certificatesexchange. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer CertificatesCoupons) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange or for payment shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Euro-Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Seller. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each a Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 6.11 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Euro-Certificates. The Seller shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the The City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03York, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchangeexchange (except that Bearer Certificates may not be surrendered for exchange at any such office or agency in the United States).
(c) (i) Registration of transfer of Investor Certificates containing a legend to the effect set forth on Exhibit C-1 shall be effected only if such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act, or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act. In the event that registration of a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the registration requirements under the Securities Act, the transferor or the transferee shall deliver, at its expense, to the Seller, the Servicer and the Trustee, (A) an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer is in compliance with (or exempt from) such registration requirements or (B) an investment letter from the transferee, substantially in the form attached to the applicable Supplement, that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act (upon which the Trustee may conclusively rely for purposes of verifying such exemption) and no registration of transfer shall be made until such letter is so delivered. Investor Certificates issued upon registration of transfer of, or Investor Certificates issued in exchange for, Investor Certificates bearing the legend referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the Seller, the Servicer, the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar receive an Opinion of Counsel, satisfactory to each of them, to the effect that such legend may be removed.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Federal Mogul Corp)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “"Transfer Agent and Registrar”"), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee Chase Bank is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates Certifi- cxxxx and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on an the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee Chase Bank shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee Chase Bank shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c6.3(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, however that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 6.3 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder Certificate holder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 6.3 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the such Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 6.9 or 7.02 7.2 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Transferor Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Transferor Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller Transferor shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Tax Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in such transfer (a copy of which shall be provided to the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of othersRating Agencies).
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set sat forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c6.3(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.036.3, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Chase Credit Card Master Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “"Transfer Agent and Registrar”"), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange an Offshore Securities Market and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European citythe location required by the Offshore Securities Market. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Servicer. In ; provided, however, that such resignation shall not be effective until the event that appointment by the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint Transferor of a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar, and acceptance of the appointment by such successor. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, provided that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date (of, if the Record Date is not a Business Day, after the close of business of the Business Day immediately preceding the Record Date) preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. 58 Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the TrusteeTrustee and the Transferor. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Exchangeable Transferor Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, therein be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller Transferor shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1i) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-then existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2ii) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (A) the contemplated transfer would conveyed interest in the Exchangeable Transferor Certificate will be treated as either debt or an interest in a financing and not as a sale partnership for federal income tax purposes; provided further, purposes and that no the conveyance of such interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would will not cause the Trust to be treated characterized for federal income tax purposes as an association taxable as a corporation or as a publicly traded partnership under or otherwise have any material adverse impact on the Code. In connection with federal or applicable state income taxation of any transfer outstanding Series of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller Investor Certificates or any subsequent transfereeCertificate Owner and (B) thereof shall such transfer will not sell, trade cause or transfer any interest therein constitute an event in which gain or cause any interest therein to loss would be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted recognized for federal income tax purposes by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of othersInvestor Certificateholder.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c).
(d) The If specified in any Supplement, the Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (First Bankcard Master Credit Card Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “"Transfer Agent and Registrar”"), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.166.03(d), a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange Exchange, and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Trustee shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. Registered Certificates may not be exchanged for Bearer Certificates. At the option of a any Holder of Bearer CertificateholderCertificates, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller shall execute, and the Trustee shall execute and authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days five Business Days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 6.12 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Transferor Certificate or any interest thereintherein be transferred, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest sold or any interest therein, be transferred pledged hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchangeexchange (except that Bearer Certificates may not be surrendered for exchange at any such office or agency in the United States, but may be surrendered for exchange at such office or agency outside the United States as shall be specified in the related Supplement). For purposes of this Section 6.03(d), "United States" includes Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Wake Island and American Samoa.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (A I Receivables Corp)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “Certificate Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the ServicerServicer and the Transferor. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agencyagency of the Transferor Agent and Registrar. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or Section 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Transferor Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Transferor Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller Transferor shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Transferor Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Transferor Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”). In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Transferor Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Transferor Interest, the holder (including the Seller Transferor or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Transferor Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Transferor Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer Transferor regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer an officer of the Transferor prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer Transferor hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c). The Transferor’s obligation pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c) shall not constitute a claim against the Trust Assets and shall only constitute a claim against the Transferor to the extent the Transferor has funds sufficient to make payment on such obligations from amounts paid to it as Holder of the Transferor Interest.
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “"Transfer Agent and ------------------ Registrar”"), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it -------------------- may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee Chase Bank is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on an the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-co- registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee Chase Bank shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee Chase Bank shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c6.3(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, however that the provisions of this -------- ------- paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 6.3 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder Certificate holder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 6.3 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the such Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 6.9 or 7.02 7.2 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Transferor Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, therein be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller Trustee shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless transfer; provided, however, that the Trustee may not withhold -------- ------- such consent if it shall have received (1) written confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, satisfy the Rating Agency Condition and (2) an a Tax Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of otherssuch transfer.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set sat forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c6.3(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.036.3, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Chase Manhattan Bank Usa)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “Certificate Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee maymay or, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee Transferor shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Holder of a Bearer CertificateholderCertificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United StatesStates of America. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than from the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 6.12 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Exchangeable Transferor Certificate or any interest therein, therein or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Transferor Interest or any interest therein, be transferred transferred, sold, exchanged, pledged, participated or otherwise assigned hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller Transferor shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2x) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer (i) does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would (ii) will not cause the Trust to be treated as a deemed to be an association or “publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder partnership” (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(17704(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 Code) taxable as a corporation and (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (iiy) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests any such transfer, sale, exchange, pledge, participation or assignment to an entity which is not an Affiliate of the Transferor, confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates. The Transferor shall give each Rating Agency notice of any such transfer, sale, exchange, pledge, participation or assignment to an Affiliate of the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of othersTransferor.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (First Usa Credit Card Master Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), "TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR") in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “Certificate Register”"CERTIFICATE REGISTER") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee Bankers Trust Company is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee Bankers Trust Company may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange a stock exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee Bankers Trust Company shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar registrar, which will also be a co-paying agent, in Luxembourg or another European citysuch city as the Transferor may specify. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee Bankers Trust Company shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee Bankers Trust Company shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee Transferor shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c6.3(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; providedPROVIDED, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 6.3 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange ex change is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 6.3 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange of any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and or exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 6.9 or 7.02 7.2 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Exchangeable Transferor Certificate or any interest thereintherein be transferred, orsold, as exchanged, pledged, participated or otherwise assigned hereunder (each of the case may beabove, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereundera "TRANSFER"), in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c6.3(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the The City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03York, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Apparel Retailers Inc)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, 11.16 a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be Trustee) (the "Transfer Agent and Registrar Registrar") shall provide for the registration of the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for shall initially be Xxxxxx Trust and Savings Bank (replacing the purposes Bank of registering the Investor Certificates New York) and transfers any co-transfer agent and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificateco-registrar chosen by Transferor and acceptable to Trustee, the Trustee mayincluding, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European cityLuxembourg. So long as any Investor Certificates are outstanding, Transferor shall maintain a Transfer Agent and Registrar in New York City. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-co- transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. The Trustee may revoke such appointment and remove any Transfer Agent and Registrar if Trustee determines in its sole discretion that such Transfer Agent and Registrar failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. Any Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written ' notice to the Transferor, Trustee and Servicer. In the event ; provided that the Trustee such resignation shall no longer not be the effective and such Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Registrar shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar until Trustee shall appoint has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar reasonably acceptable to Transferor. Upon Subject to paragraph (c), upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose, one or more new Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Investor Interest shall be executed, authenticated and delivered, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees. At the option of a Registered Holder, Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Investor Interest, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency; Registered Certificates, including Registered Certificates received in exchange for Bearer CertificateholderCertificates, may not be exchanged for Bearer Certificates. At the option of the Holder of a Bearer Certificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules)regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates (of the same Series in and Class) of authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests fractional undivided interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such SeriesInvestor Interest, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, ; provided that any Bearer Certificate Certificate, so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date payment date or distribution date after the related Series Termination Date expected final payment date need not have attached the Coupons Coupon relating to such Distribution Datepayment date or distribution date (in each case, as specified in the applicable Supplement). Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than shall deliver (in the Trusteecase of Bearer Certificates, in which case outside the Transfer Agent and Registrar shallUnited States) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder Investor Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and or the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof Investor Holder or his the attorney-in-fact thereof duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such transfer or exchange of Certificatesexchange. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer CertificatesCoupons) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange or for payment shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Euro-Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate certif icate or certificates of each Foreign a foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 required by the applicable Supplement was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Euro-Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement Agreement, each Supplement and the Certificates.
(b) Except The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the City of New York and an office or agency where Investor Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (except that Bearer Certificates may not be surrendered for exchange at any such office or agency in the United States). If and so long as provided in Section 6.09 any Series or 7.02 or in any SupplementClass is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange an agent shall be appointed, at the Servicer's expense, in no event Luxembourg.
(c) (i) Registration of transfer of Investor Certificates containing (x) a legend substantially to the effect set forth on Exhibit E-1 shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to effected only if such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and unless (y) a legend substantially to the Trustee effect set forth on Exhibit E-3 shall have received be effected only if such transfer is made to a Person that is not (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering an employee benefit plan or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificatesother plan, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate trust or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder account (including the Seller or any subsequent transfereean individual retirement account) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(13.3 of ERISA, whether or not subject to ERISA (including, without limitation, Foreign and governmental plans) or described by Section 4975(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code or (2) any collective investment fund, insurance company separate or general account or other entity whose underlying assets include "plan assets" of 1986 the foregoing by reason of a plan's investment in such entity (each, a "Benefit Plan") unless it is an insurance company using the “Code”assets of its general account and, at the time of acquisition and throughout its holding of the certificate (a) it is not a service provider to the trust or an affiliate of the foregoing, and would not otherwise be excluded under 29 C.F.R. 2510.3.101(f)(1), including without limitation and (b) each of the accounts to which such certificate is allocated is an interdealer quotation system insurance company general account (1) that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or is eligible for and meets the requirements of Department of Labor Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 95-60 and (ii2) a “secondary market of which less than 25% of the assets are (or represent) assets of a Benefit Plan. If registration of a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the substantial equivalent thereof)” within registration requirements under the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2)Securities Act, including a market wherein interests the transferor or the transferee shall deliver, at its expense, to Transferor, Servicer and Trustee, an investment letter from the transferee, substantially in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests form of the investment representation letter attached hereto as Exhibit E-2, and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no registration of transfer shall be made until such letter is so delivered. Investor Certificates issued upon registration or transfer of, or Investor Certificates issued in exchange for, Investor Certificates bearing a legend referred to above shall also bear such legend unless Transferor, Servicer, Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar receive an Opinion of Registered Certificates Counsel, satisfactory to each of them, to the effect that such legend may be removed. Whenever an Investor Certificate containing a legend relating referred to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement above is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent transfer and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may betransfer. The Servicer Transferor hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and their respective officers, directors, agents and employees and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on relation to any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c).
(d) paragraph. The Transfer Agent preceding sentence shall survive the termination of this Agreement and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough earlier removal or resignation of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.Trustee. 62
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (World Financial Network National Bank)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, 11.16 a register (the “Certificate Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the Trustee) (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar Registrar”) shall provide for the registration of the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for shall initially be Citibank and any co-transfer agent and co-registrar chosen by Citibank and acceptable to the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global CertificateTrustee, the Trustee mayincluding, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European cityLuxembourg. So long as any Investor Certificates are outstanding, the Sellers shall maintain a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in New York City. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-co- registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. The Trustee may revoke such appointment and remove Citibank as Transfer Agent and Registrar if the Trustee determines in its sole discretion that Citibank failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. Citibank shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the Servicer. In the event that Sellers, the Trustee and the Servicer; provided, however, that such resignation shall no longer not be the effective and Citibank shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar, Registrar until the Trustee shall appoint has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar reasonably acceptable to the Sellers. Upon Subject to paragraph (c) below, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose, one or more new Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders’ Interest shall be executed, authenticated and delivered, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees. At the option of a Bearer Registered Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws Registered Certificates (of the same Series and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates Class) may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests fractional undivided interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such SeriesCertificateholders’ Interest, upon surrender of the Bearer Registered Certificates to be exchanged at an any such office or agency agency. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside Registrar, as the United States. Each Bearer case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer or exchange of any Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close for a period of business on the Record Date 15 days preceding the relevant Distribution Date after due date for any payment with respect to the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution DateCertificate. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Sellers shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, shall deliver the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Investor Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and or the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Investor Certificateholder thereof or his the attorney-in-fact thereof duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such transfer or exchange of Certificatesexchange. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange or for payment shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Euro- Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerSellers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each a Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Euro-Certificates. The Seller Sellers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement Agreement, each Supplement and the Certificates.
(b) Except The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in each of the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, and, if and so long as provided in Section 6.09 any Series or 7.02 Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, Luxembourg, an office or in any Supplement, in no event agency where Investor Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
(c) (i) Registration of transfer of Investor Certificates containing a legend to the effect set forth on Exhibit E-1 shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to effected only if such transfer and unless (x) is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing Act, or is exempt from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificatesthe registration requirements under the Act, and (2y) is made to a Person which is not an Opinion of Counsel employee benefit plan, trust or account, including an individual retirement account, that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached is subject to ERISA or that is described in any Section 4975(e)(1) of the federal income tax opinions dated Code or an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan’s investment in such entity (a “Benefit Plan”). In the applicable Closing Date event that registration of a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the registration requirements under the Act, the transferor or the transferee shall deliver, at its expense, to the Sellers, the Servicer and the Trustee, an investment letter from the transferee, substantially in the form of the investment and ERISA representation letter attached hereto as Exhibit E-2, and no registration of transfer shall be made until such letter is so delivered. Investor Certificates issued upon registration or transfer of, or Investor Certificates issued in connection with exchange for, Investor Certificates bearing the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that legend referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transferSellers, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller InterestServicer, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with and the Transfer Agent and Registrar receive an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel, satisfactory to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided furthereach of them, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to legend may be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Coderemoved. In connection with any transfer of Whenever an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement referred to above is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent transfer and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may betransfer. The Servicer Sellers hereby agrees agree to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on relation to any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(cclause (i).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “"Transfer Agent and Registrar”"), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange an Offshore Securities Market and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European citythe location required by the Offshore Securities Market. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Servicer. In ; provided, however, that such resignation shall not be effective until the event that appointment by the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint Transferor of a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar, and acceptance of the appointment by such successor. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, provided that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date (of, if the Record Date is not a Business Day, after the close of business of the Business Day immediately preceding the Record Date) preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the TrusteeTrustee and the Transferor. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Exchangeable Transferor Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, therein be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller Transferor shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1i) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-then existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2ii) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (A) the contemplated transfer would conveyed interest in the Exchangeable Transferor Certificate will be treated as either debt or an interest in a financing and not as a sale partnership for federal income tax purposes; provided further, purposes and that no the conveyance of such interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would will not cause the Trust to be treated characterized for federal income tax purposes as an association taxable as a corporation or as a publicly traded partnership under or otherwise have any material adverse impact on the Code. In connection with federal or applicable state income taxation of any transfer outstanding Series of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller Investor Certificates or any subsequent transfereeCertificate Owner and (B) thereof shall such transfer will not sell, trade cause or transfer any interest therein constitute an event in which gain or cause any interest therein to loss would be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted recognized for federal income tax purposes by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of othersInvestor Certificateholder.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c).
(d) The If specified in any Supplement, the Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (First Bankcard Master Credit Card Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), Trustee) (the "TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR") in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, 8.16 a register (the “Certificate Register”"CERTIFICATE REGISTER") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it the Trustee may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Company hereby appoints the Trustee is hereby initially appointed as Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes purpose of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Company and the Servicer. In the event ; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that such resignation shall not be effective and the Trustee shall no longer be the continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar, Registrar until the Trustee shall appoint has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject Registrar reasonably acceptable to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), Company and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the successor Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for has accepted such purposeappointment. At the option The provisions of a Bearer CertificateholderSections 8.1, subject to applicable laws 8.2, 8.3, 8.5 and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 10.19 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory apply to the Trustee and the also in its role as Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Seller. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, so long as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, act as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered CertificatesRegistrar, as the case may be. The Servicer Company hereby agrees to indemnify provide the Trustee from time to time sufficient funds, on a timely basis and in accordance with and subject to Section 8.5, for the payment of any reasonable compensation payable to the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on for their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.services under this
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, 11.16 a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as --------------------- it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the Trustee) (the "Transfer Agent and Registrar Registrar") shall provide for the registration of ---------------------------- the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges shall be, as of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If date hereof, The Bank of New York and any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificateco-transfer agent and co- registrar chosen by the Sellers and acceptable to the Trustee, the Trustee may, or including if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European cityLuxembourg. So long as any Investor Certificates are outstanding, the Sellers shall maintain a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in New York City. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. The Trustee may revoke such appointment and remove any Transfer Agent and Registrar if the Trustee determines in its sole discretion that such Transfer Agent and Registrar failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. Any Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written thirty (30) days notice to the Servicer. In the event that Sellers, the Trustee and the Servicer; provided, however, that such -------- ------- resignation shall no longer not be the effective and such Transfer Agent and Registrar, Registrar shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar until the Trustee shall appoint Sellers have appointed a successor Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar reasonably acceptable to the Trustee. Upon Subject to paragraph (c) below, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose, one or more new Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders' Interest shall be executed, authenticated and delivered, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees. At the option of a Registered Certificateholder, Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders' Interest, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency; Registered Certificates, including Registered Certificates received in exchange for Bearer CertificateholderCertificates, may not be exchanged for Bearer Certificates. At the option of the Holder of a Bearer Certificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules)regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates (of the same Series in and Class) of authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests fractional undivided interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such SeriesCertificateholders' Interest, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, ; provided that any Bearer Certificate Certificate, so -------- surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date payment date or distribution date after the related Series Termination Date expected final payment date need not have attached the Coupons Coupon relating to such Distribution Datepayment date or distribution date (in each case, as specified in the applicable Supplement). Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Sellers shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than shall deliver (in the Trusteecase of Bearer Certificates, in which case outside the Transfer Agent and Registrar shallUnited States) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Investor Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and or the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Investor Certificateholder thereof or his the attorney-in-fact thereof duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such transfer or exchange of Certificatesexchange. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer CertificatesCoupons) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange or for payment shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Euro-Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerSellers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each a Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Euro-Certificates. The Seller Sellers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement Agreement, each Supplement and the Certificates.
(b) Except The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in each of the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York, and, if and so long as provided any Series or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, Luxembourg, an office or agency where Investor Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (except that Bearer Certificates may not be surrendered for exchange at any such office or agency in the United States).
(c) (i) Registration of transfer of Investor Certificates containing a legend substantially to the effect set forth on Exhibit E-1 shall ----------- be effected only if such transfer (x) is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Act, or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Act, and (y) is made to a Person which is not an employee benefit plan, trust or account, including an individual retirement account, that is subject to ERISA or that is described in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received 4975(e)
(1) confirmation of the Code or an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in writing such entity (a "Benefit Plan"). In the event that registration of ------------ a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result the registration requirements under the Act, the transferor or the transferee shall deliver, at its expense, to the Sellers, the Servicer and the Transfer Agent and Registrar, an investment letter from the transferee, substantially in a lowering or withdrawal the form of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificatesthe investment and ERISA representation letter attached hereto as Exhibit E-2, and (2) an Opinion ----------- no registration of Counsel that transfer shall be made until such letter is so delivered. Investor Certificates issued upon registration or transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date of, or Investor Certificates issued in connection with exchange for, Investor Certificates bearing the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that legend referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transferSellers, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller InterestServicer, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with and the Transfer Agent and Registrar receive an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel, satisfactory to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided furthereach of them, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to legend may be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Coderemoved. In connection with any transfer of Whenever an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement referred to above is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent transfer and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may betransfer. The Servicer Sellers hereby agrees agree to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on relation to any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(cclause (i).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, 11.16 a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the Trustee) (the "Transfer Agent and Registrar Registrar") shall provide for the registration of the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, shall initially be the Trustee mayand any co-transfer agent and co-registrar chosen by the Transferors and acceptable to the Trustee, or including, if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European cityLuxembourg. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. The Trustee may revoke such appointment and remove any Transfer Agent and Registrar if the Trustee determines in its sole discretion that such Transfer Agent and Registrar failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. Any Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written ' notice to the Servicer. In the event that Transferors, the Trustee and the Servicer; provided, however, that such resignation shall no longer not be the effective and such Transfer Agent and Registrar, Registrar shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar until the Trustee shall appoint has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar reasonably acceptable to the Transferors. Upon Subject to paragraph (c) below, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose, one or more new Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders' Interest shall be executed, authenticated and delivered, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees. At the option of a Registered Certificateholder, Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders' Interest, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency; Registered Certificates, including Registered Certificates received in exchange for Bearer CertificateholderCertificates, may not be exchanged for Bearer Certificates. At the option of the Holder of a Bearer Certificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules)regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates (of the same Series in and Class) of authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests fractional undivided interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such SeriesCertificateholders' Interest, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, ; provided that any Bearer Certificate Certificate, so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date payment date after the related Series Termination Date expected final payment date need not have attached the Coupons Coupon relating to such Distribution Datepayment date (in each case, as specified in the applicable Supplement). Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferors shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than shall deliver (in the Trusteecase of Bearer Certificates, in which case outside the Transfer Agent and Registrar shallUnited States) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Investor Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and or the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Investor Certificateholder thereof or his the attorney-in-fact thereof duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such transfer or exchange of Certificatesexchange. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer CertificatesCoupons) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange or for payment shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Euro-Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferors. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each a Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Euro-Certificates. The Seller Transferors shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement Agreement, each Supplement and the Certificates.
(b) Except The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in each of the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, and, if and so long as provided in Section 6.09 any Series or 7.02 Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, Luxembourg, an office or in agency where Investor Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (except that Bearer Certificates may not be surrendered for exchange at any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate such office or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest agency in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, United States).
(c) (i) Registration of transfer of Investor Certificates containing a legend substantially to the effect set forth on Exhibit E-1 shall be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to effected only if such transfer (x) is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Act, or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Act, and unless the Trustee shall have received (y) is made to a Person which is not an employee benefit plan, trust or account, including an individual retirement account, that is subject to
(1) confirmation of the Code or an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in writing such entity (a "Benefit Plan"). In the event that registration of a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result the registration requirements under the Act, the transferor or the transferee shall deliver, at its expense, to the Transferors, the Servicer and the Trustee, an investment letter from the transferee, substantially in a lowering or withdrawal the form of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificatesthe investment and ERISA representation letter attached hereto as Exhibit E-2, and (2) no registration of transfer shall be made until such letter is so delivered. Investor Certificates issued upon registration or transfer of, or Investor Certificates issued in exchange for, Investor Certificates bearing the legend referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the Transferors, the Servicer, the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar receive an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any Counsel, satisfactory to each of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; providedthem, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to legend may be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Coderemoved. In connection with any transfer of Whenever an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement referred to above is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent transfer and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may betransfer. The Servicer Transferors hereby agrees agree to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on relation to any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(cclause (i).
(di) The Transfer Agent Registration of transfer of Investor Certificates containing a legend to the effect set forth on Exhibit E-3 shall be effected only if such transfer is made to a Person which is not a Benefit Plan. By accepting and Registrar will maintain at its expense holding any such Investor Certificate, an Investor Certificateholder shall be deemed to have represented and warranted that it is not a Benefit Plan. By acquiring any interest in a Book-Entry Certificate which contains such legend, a Certificate Owner shall be deemed to have represented and warranted that it is not a Benefit Plan.
(ii) If so requested by the Borough of ManhattanTransferors, the City Trustee will make available to any prospective purchaser of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates who so requests, a copy of such a letter provided to the Trustee by or on behalf of the Transferors relating to the transferability of any Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchangeClass to a Benefit Plan.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Fleet Credit Card Master Trust Ii)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “"Transfer Agent and Registrar”"), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer co‑transfer agent and co-registrar co‑registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer co‑transfer agent and co-registrar co‑registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the ServicerServicer and the Transferor. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agencyagency of the Transferor Agent and Registrar. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact its attorney‑in‑fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or Section 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Transferor Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Transferor Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller Transferor shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing then‑existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Transferor Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Transferor Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Internal Revenue Code (the "Code"). In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Transferor Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Transferor Interest, the holder (including the Seller Transferor or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “"established securities market” " within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “"secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” " within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Transferor Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Transferor Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer Transferor regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer an officer of the Transferor prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer Transferor hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c). The Transferor's obligation pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c) shall not constitute a claim against the Trust Assets and shall only constitute a claim against the Transferor to the extent the Transferor has funds sufficient to make payment on such obligations from amounts paid to it as Holder of the Transferor Interest.
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (BA Master Credit Card Trust II)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the “Trustee) (the "Transfer Agent and Registrar”), ") in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, 8.16 a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it the Trustee may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Company hereby appoints the Trustee is hereby initially appointed as the initial Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes purpose of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee mayThe Company, or if and so long the Trustee, as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on agent for the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and Company, may revoke such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the appointment as Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include and remove the then-acting Transfer Agent and Registrar if the Trustee or the Company (as applicable) determines in its sole discretion that the then-acting Transfer Agent and Registrar has failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresmaterial respect. The Trustee then-acting Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Company, the Trustee and the Servicer. In the event ; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that such resignation shall not be effective and the Trustee shall no longer be the continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar, Registrar until the Trustee shall appoint has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar reasonably acceptable to the Company and such successor Transfer Agent and Registrar has accepted such appointment. The provisions of Sections 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.5 and 10.19 shall apply to the Trustee also in its role as Transfer Agent and Registrar for so long as the Trustee shall act as Transfer Agent and Registrar. The Company hereby agrees to provide the Trustee from time to time sufficient funds, on a timely basis and in accordance with and subject to Section 8.5, for the payment of any reasonable compensation payable to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for its services under this Section 5.3. The Company, Trustee and Transfer Agent and Registrar shall agree on such compensation in writing. The Trustee hereby agrees that, upon the receipt of such funds from the Company, it shall promptly pay the Transfer Agent and Registrar such amounts. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Investor Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar maintained for such purpose, the Seller Company shall execute, subject to and, upon the provisions written request of subsection 6.03(c)the Company, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Investor Certificates in authorized denominations of the same Series representing like aggregate Fractional Undivided Interests; provided, Interests and which bear numbers that the provisions of this paragraph shall are not apply to Bearer Certificatescontemporaneously outstanding. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized 61 denominations of like aggregate Fractional Undivided Interests, bearing numbers that are not contemporaneously outstanding, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Company shall execute, and and, upon the written request of the Company, the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than from the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Investor Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer substantially in a the form satisfactory attached to the Trustee form of such Investor Certificate and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder holder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, writing delivered to the Trustee or (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different from the Trustee, in which case to the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange ) and complying with any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided requirements set forth in the related applicable Supplement, no . No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of any Investor Certificateholder that is transferring or exchanging one or more Certificates to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar cancelled and disposed of in a customary manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Seller. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Company shall execute and deliver Certificates to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates Registrar in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar to fulfill its their respective responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates. No interest of any Investor Certificateholder in the Receivables may be transferred other than by means of a transfer of an Investor Certificate.
(b) Except as provided The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in Chicago, Illinois and, subject to Section 6.09 or 7.02 or 5.3(a), if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate an office or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest offices or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole agency or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of agencies where Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided surrendered for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade registration or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.exchange. 62
(c) Unless otherwise provided stated in the any related SupplementSupplements, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such the related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing complied with. Certificates issued upon registration or transfer of, or in exchange for, Certificates bearing the legend set forth in referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the related Supplement is presented to Company, the Servicer, the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration receive an Opinion of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled Counsel satisfactory to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any lossthem, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any to the effect that such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c)legend may be removed.
(d) (i) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in Company may not transfer, assign, exchange or otherwise pledge or convey the Borough Series Subordinated Interest of Manhattanany Series or the Exchangeable Company Interest except, with respect to the City of New York (and subject Exchangeable Company Interest, pursuant to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange5.10.
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “"Transfer Agent and Registrar”"), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Certificate Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee First Union National Bank, is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar including, if and so long as any Series is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg, unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. The Trustee may revoke such appointment, or any subsequent appointment, and remove the Transfer Agent and Registrar if the Trustee determines in its sole discretion that the Transfer Agent and Registrar has failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. The Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days' notice to the Seller, the Servicer, the Trustee and each Purchaser Representative; provided, that such resignation shall not be effective and the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar until the Trustee has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar reasonably acceptable to the Seller. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Trustee shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Trust Interests; provided. Registered Certificates, that the provisions of this paragraph shall including Registered Certificates received in exchange for Bearer Certificates, may not apply to be exchanged for Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholderthe Holder of a Bearer Certificate, Investor subject to applicable laws and regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates (of the same Series in Certificate Series) of authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Trust Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at any such an office or agencyagency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificatesan Investor Certificateholder, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Certificate Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Trust Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Certificate Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliverdeliver (in the case of Bearer Certificates, outside the United States), the Investor Certificates of such Certificate Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 6.3 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Certificate Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Certificate Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer CertificatesCoupons) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Euro-Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Seller. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each a Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Euro-Certificates. The Seller shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Charming Shoppes Receivables Corp)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, 11.16 a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the Trustee) (the "Transfer Agent and Registrar Registrar") shall provide for the registration of the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, shall initially be the Trustee mayand any co-transfer agent and co-registrar chosen by the Transferor and acceptable to the Trustee, or including, if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European cityLuxembourg. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. The Trustee may revoke such appointment and remove any Transfer Agent and Registrar if the Trustee determines in its sole discretion that such Transfer Agent and Registrar failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. Any Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written ' notice to the Servicer. In the event that Transferor, the Trustee and the Servicer; provided, however, that such resignation shall no longer not be the effective and such Transfer Agent and Registrar, Registrar shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar until the Trustee shall appoint has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar reasonably acceptable to the Transferor. Upon Subject to paragraph (c) below, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose, one or more new Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders' Interest shall be executed, authenticated and delivered, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees. At the option of a Registered Certificateholder, Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders' Interest, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency; Registered Certificates, including Registered Certificates received in exchange for Bearer CertificateholderCertificates, may not be exchanged for Bearer Certificates. At the option of the Holder of a Bearer Certificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules)regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates (of the same Series in and Class) of authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests fractional undivided interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such SeriesCertificateholders' Interest, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, ; provided that any Bearer Certificate Certificate, so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date payment date after the related Series Termination Date expected final payment date need not have attached the Coupons Coupon relating to such Distribution Datepayment date (in each case, as specified in the applicable Supplement). Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than shall deliver (in the Trusteecase of Bearer Certificates, in which case outside the Transfer Agent and Registrar shallUnited States) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Investor Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and or the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Investor Certificateholder thereof or his the attorney-in-fact thereof duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such transfer or exchange of Certificatesexchange. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer CertificatesCoupons) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange or for payment shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Euro-Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each a Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Euro-Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement Agreement, each Supplement and the Certificates.
(b) Except The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in each of the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York, and, if and so long as provided any Series or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, Luxembourg, the co-transfer agent and co-registrar appointed pursuant to Section 6.04(a) shall maintain an office or agency where Investor Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (except that Bearer Certificates may not be surrendered for exchange at any such office or agency in the United States).
(c) (i) Registration of transfer of Investor Certificates containing a legend substantially to the effect set forth on Exhibit E-1 shall be effected only if such transfer (x) is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Act, or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Act, and (y) is made to a Person which is not an employee benefit plan, trust or account, including an individual retirement account, that is subject to ERISA or that is described in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received 4975(e)
(1) confirmation of the Code or an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in writing such entity (a "Benefit Plan"). In the event that registration of a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result the registration requirements under the Act, the transferor or the transferee shall deliver, at its expense, to the Transferor, the Servicer and the Trustee, an investment letter from the transferee, substantially in a lowering or withdrawal the form of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificatesthe investment and ERISA representation letter attached hereto as Exhibit E-2, and (2) no registration of transfer shall be made until such letter is so delivered. Investor Certificates issued upon registration or transfer of, or Investor Certificates issued in exchange for, Investor Certificates bearing the legend referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the Transferor, the Servicer, the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar receive an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any Counsel, satisfactory to each of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; providedthem, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to legend may be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Coderemoved. In connection with any transfer of Whenever an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement referred to above is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent transfer and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may betransfer. The Servicer Transferor hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on relation to any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(cclause (i).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Travelers Bank Credit Card Master Trust I)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the “Trustee) (the "Transfer Agent and Registrar”), ") in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, 8.16 a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it the Trustee may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Company hereby appoints the Trustee is hereby initially appointed as Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes purpose of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Company and the Servicer. In the event ; provided, however, that such resignation shall not be effective and the Trustee shall no longer be the continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar, Registrar until the Trustee shall appoint has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar reasonably acceptable to the Company and such successor Transfer Agent and Registrar has accepted such appointment. The provisions of Sections 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.5 and 10.19 shall apply to the Trustee also in its role as Transfer Agent or Registrar, as the case may be, for so long as the Trustee shall act as Transfer Agent or Registrar, as the case may be. The Company hereby agrees to provide the Trustee from time to time sufficient funds, on a timely basis and in accordance with and subject to Section 8.5, for the payment of any reasonable compensation payable to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for their services under this Section 5.3. The Trustee hereby agrees that, upon the receipt of such funds from the Company, it shall pay the Transfer Agent and Registrar such amounts. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Investor Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar maintained for such purpose, the Seller Company shall execute, subject to and, upon the provisions written request of subsection 6.03(c)the Company, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Investor Certificates in authorized denominations of the same Series (and Class) representing like aggregate Fractional Undivided Interests; provided, Interests and which bear numbers that the provisions of this paragraph shall are not apply to Bearer Certificatescontemporaneously outstanding. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series (and Class) in authorized denominations of like aggregate Fractional Undivided Interests, bearing numbers that are not contemporaneously outstanding, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Company shall execute, and and, upon the written request of the Company, the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than from the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Investor Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer substantially in a the form satisfactory attached to the Trustee form of such Investor Certificate and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder holder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, writing delivered to the Trustee or (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different from the Trustee, in which case to the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange ) and complying with any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided requirements set forth in the related applicable Supplement, no . No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of any Investor Certificateholder that is transferring or exchanging one or more Certificates to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a customary manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Seller. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Company shall execute and deliver Certificates to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates Registrar in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar to fulfill its their respective responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York and, subject to subsection 5.3(a), if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate an office or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest offices or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole agency or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of agencies where Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided surrendered for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade registration or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of othersexchange.
(c) Unless otherwise provided stated in the any related SupplementSupplements, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such the related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing complied with. Certificates issued upon registration or transfer of, or in exchange for, Certificates bearing the legend set forth in referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the related Supplement is presented to Company, the Servicer, the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration receive an Opinion of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled Counsel satisfactory to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any lossthem, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any to the effect that such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c)legend may be removed.
(di) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain Company may not transfer, assign, exchange or otherwise pledge or convey the Series Subordinated Interest of any Series (or any interest therein) or the Exchangeable Company Interest (or any interest therein) except, with respect to the Exchangeable Company Interest, pursuant to Section 5.10.
(ii) Neither the Company nor the Servicer shall at its expense any time participate in the Borough listing of Manhattanany Targeted Investor Certificate (as defined below) on an "established securities market" within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code and any proposed, temporary or final treasury regulation thereunder as of the City date hereof, including, without limitation, an over-the-counter or interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations. "Targeted Investor Certificate" shall mean any Certificate representing a right to receive interest or principal with respect to any Class or Series of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates with respect to which an Opinion of Counsel has not been rendered that such Series may Certificates will be surrendered treated as debt for registration federal income tax purposes (it being understood that any Certificate with respect to which an Opinion of transfer Counsel has been rendered that such Certificate will be treated either as debt or exchangeas an interest in a partnership for federal income tax purposes shall be a Targeted Investor Certificate).
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “"Transfer Agent and Registrar”"), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed the initial Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein providedRegistrar. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c6.3(c), Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, provided that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor CertificateholderHolder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Holder of a Bearer CertificateholderCertificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 6.3 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be 57 accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder Holder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 6.3 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 2.9, 6.9 or 7.02 7.2 or in any Supplementthis subsection 6.3(b), in no event Transferor shall not transfer the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Transferor Interest or any interest therein. Transferor may from time to time transfer a portion of the Transferor Interest by causing the issuance of one or more additional certificates (each a "Supplemental Certificate"), the terms of which shall be transferred hereunderdefined in a Supplement (which Supplement shall be subject to Section 13.1(a) to the extent that it amends any of the terms of this Agreement), to be delivered to or upon the order of Transferor (or the Holder of a Supplemental Certificate, in whole the case of the transfer or in partexchange thereof, unless as provided below), upon satisfaction of the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the following conditions:
(i) Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal an Officer's Certificate of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect Transferor certifying that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Transferor Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it canshall not be subdivided for resale into units smaller less than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.the
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (First National Bank of Commerce)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “"Transfer Agent and Registrar”"), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee Transferor may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange an Offshore Securities Market and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee Transferor shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European citythe location required by the Offshore Securities Market. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ days written notice to the Master Servicer. In , provided, however, that such resignation shall not be effective until the event that appointment by the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint Transferor of a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar, and acceptance of the appointment by such successor. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agencyagency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date (of, if the Record Date is not a Business Day, after the close of business of the Business Day immediately preceding the Record Date) preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date any Distribution Date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled cancelled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trusteeits customary manner. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Exchangeable Transferor Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, therein be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller Transferor shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1i) confirmation in writing from each that the Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, Condition is satisfied and (2ii) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (A) the contemplated transfer would conveyed interest in the Exchangeable Transferor Certificate will be treated as either debt or an interest in a financing and not as a sale partnership for federal income tax purposes; provided further, purposes and that no the conveyance of such interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would will not cause the Trust to be treated characterized for federal income tax purposes as an association taxable as a corporation or as a publicly traded partnership under or otherwise have any material adverse impact on the Code. In connection with federal or applicable state income taxation of any transfer outstanding Series of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller Investor Certificates or any subsequent transfereeCertificate Owner and (B) thereof shall such transfer will not sell, trade or transfer cause a taxable event for federal income tax purposes to any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of othersInvestor Certificateholder.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
. Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Master Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Master Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Master Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c).
(d) The If specified in any Supplement, the Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Dillard Asset Funding Co)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “"Transfer Agent and Registrar”"), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed the initial Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein providedRegistrar. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c6.3(c), Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, provided that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor CertificateholderHolder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Holder of a Bearer CertificateholderCertificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 6.3 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder Holder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 6.3 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 2.9, 6.9 or 7.02 7.2 or in any Supplementthis subsection 6.3(b), in no event Transferor shall not transfer the Seller Transferor Certificate or any interest therein. Transferor may surrender the Transferor Certificate to Trustee in exchange for a newly issued Transferor Certificate and one or more additional certificates (each a "Supplemental Certificate"), orthe terms of which shall be defined in a Supplement (which Supplement shall be subject to Section 13.1(a) to the extent that it amends any of the terms of this Agreement), to be delivered to or upon the order of Transferor (or the Holder of a Supplemental Certificate, in the case of the transfer or exchange thereof, as provided below), upon satisfaction of the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the following conditions: (i) Trustee shall have received an Officer's Certificate of Transferor certifying that the Transferor Interest shall not be less than the Minimum Transferor Interest, in each case as of the date of, and after giving effect to, such exchange; (1ii) confirmation in writing from the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied with respect to such exchange (or transfer or exchange as provided below); and (iii) Transferor shall have delivered to Trustee and each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor CertificatesTax Opinion, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection date of such exchange (or transfer or exchange as provided below), with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller respect thereto. Any Supplemental Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) exchanged only upon satisfaction of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or conditions set forth in clauses (ii) a “secondary market and (or the substantial equivalent thereofiii)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
. Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to shall indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c6.3(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of ManhattanNew York, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.036.3, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an any agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. (e) The Certificates of any Series (or if there is more than one Class in a Series, each Class) may not be acquired with the plan assets of (i) any "employee benefit plan" as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA, which is subject to Title I of ERISA, or (ii) any "plan" as defined in Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code (each a "Benefit Plan"), unless such Series (or Class) has been registered under Section 12(b) or Section 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and the underwriter or underwriters for such Series (or Class) notifies Transferor and Trustee that as of the date immediately following the conclusion of the offering, the Certificates of such Series (or Class) have been sold to at least 100 separately named persons. If the Certificates of any Series (or Class) may not be acquired with plan assets because the foregoing requirements are not satisfied, then each purchaser and each transferee of such Certificates will be deemed to represent and warrant that it is not purchasing such Certificates with plan assets of a Benefit Plan.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (First National Bank of Commerce)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, its Corporate Trust Office a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the Trustee) (the "Transfer Agent and Registrar Registrar") shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for shall initially be the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates Trustee, and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-co- registrar in Luxembourg or another European citychosen by the Trustee and acceptable to the Servicer. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' (60 days' during an Amortization Period) written notice to the Transferor and the Servicer. In the event ; provided, however, that such resignation shall not be effective and the Trustee shall no longer be the continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar until the Servicer has appointed a Successor Trustee pursuant to Section 11.07, the which Successor Trustee shall appoint a act as the successor Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar hereunder. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Investor Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar maintained for such purpose and receipt of a representation letter described in Section 6.03(c) and a certificate or letter from the transferring Person to the effect that such transfer is in compliance with all applicable requirements of the applicable Supplement or Certificate Purchase Agreement, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Investor Certificates (of the same Series) in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that Fractional Interests in the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer CertificatesAggregate Holders' Interest. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates (of the same Series Series) in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided InterestsFractional Interests in the Holders' Interest, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and or the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder Holder thereof or his attorney-in-in- fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions Each Holder must satisfy all transfer restrictions set forth herein, in the Certificates and in the related Supplement or Certificate Purchase Agreement. Each Investor Certificate shall be registered at all times as herein provided, and any transfer or exchange of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, such Investor Certificate will be valid for purposes hereunder only upon registration of such transfer or exchange by the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, Registrar as provided herein. Payments on any Distribution Date shall be made to Holders of record on the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days immediately preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such SeriesRecord Date. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar or any co-transfer agent and co-registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange or exchange, or for payment, shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar cancelled and disposed of in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Seller. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of ManhattanNew York, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 6.03, no registration of transfer of any Investor Certificate shall be made unless the Transferor or the transferee shall deliver, at its expense, to the Transferor, the Servicer and the Trustee a representation letter, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit D to this Agreement, stating, among other things, that such transferee is not (i) an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a plan (as defined in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code) or (iii) an entity whose underlying assets include "plan assets" under Department of Labor Regulation 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Zenith Electronics Corp)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, 11.16 a register (the “Certificate Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the Trustee) (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar Registrar”) shall provide for the registration of the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges shall be, as of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If date hereof, The Bank of New York and any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificateco-transfer agent and co-registrar chosen by the Transferor and acceptable to the Trustee, the Trustee may, or including if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European cityLuxembourg. So long as any Investor Certificates are outstanding, the Transferor shall maintain a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in New York City. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. The Trustee may revoke such appointment and remove any Transfer Agent and Registrar if the Trustee determines in its sole discretion that such Transfer Agent and Registrar failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. Any Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written thirty (30) days notice to the Servicer. In the event that Transferor, the Trustee and the Servicer; provided, however, that such resignation shall no longer not be the effective and such Transfer Agent and Registrar, Registrar shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar until the Trustee shall appoint Transferor has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar reasonably acceptable to the Trustee. Upon Subject to paragraph (c) below, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose, one or more new Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders’ Interest shall be executed, authenticated and delivered, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees. At the option of a Registered Certificateholder, Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders’ Interest, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency; Registered Certificates, including Registered Certificates received in exchange for Bearer CertificateholderCertificates, may not be exchanged for Bearer Certificates. At the option of the Holder of a Bearer Certificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules)regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates (of the same Series in and Class) of authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests fractional undivided interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such SeriesCertificateholders’ Interest, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, ; provided that any Bearer Certificate Certificate, so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date payment date or distribution date after the related Series Termination Date expected final payment date need not have attached the Coupons Coupon relating to such Distribution Datepayment date or distribution date (in each case, as specified in the applicable Supplement). Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than Xxxxxxxxx shall deliver (in the Trusteecase of Bearer Certificates, in which case outside the Transfer Agent and Registrar shallUnited States) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Investor Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and or the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Investor Certificateholder thereof or his the attorney-in-fact thereof duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such transfer or exchange of Certificatesexchange. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer CertificatesCoupons) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange or for payment shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Euro-Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each a Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Euro-Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement Agreement, each Supplement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall each of the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may beBorough of Manhattan, the uncertificated interest City of New York, and, if and so long as any Series or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, Luxembourg, an office or agency where Investor Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (except that Bearer Certificates may not be surrendered for exchange at any such office or agency in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, United States).
(c) (i) Registration of transfer of Investor Certificates containing a legend substantially to the effect set forth on Exhibit E-1 shall be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to effected only if such transfer and unless (x) is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing Act, or is exempt from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificatesthe registration requirements under the Act, and (2y) is made to a Person which is not an Opinion of Counsel employee benefit plan, trust or account, including an individual retirement account, that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached is subject to ERISA or that is described in any Section 4975(e)(1) of the federal income tax opinions dated Code or an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan’s investment in such entity (a “Benefit Plan”). In the applicable Closing Date event that registration of a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the registration requirements under the Act, the transferor or the transferee shall deliver, at its expense, to the Transferor, the Servicer and the Transfer Agent and Registrar, an investment letter from the transferee, substantially in the form of the investment and ERISA representation letter attached hereto as Exhibit E-2, and no registration of transfer shall be made until such letter is so delivered. Investor Certificates issued upon registration or transfer of, or Investor Certificates issued in connection with exchange for, Investor Certificates bearing the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that legend referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transferTransferor, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller InterestServicer, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with and the Transfer Agent and Registrar receive an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel, satisfactory to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided furthereach of them, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to legend may be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Coderemoved. In connection with any transfer of Whenever an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement referred to above is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer Transferor regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent transfer and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer an officer of the Transferor prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may betransfer. The Servicer Transferor hereby agrees agree to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on relation to any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(cclause (i).
(d) . The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject Transferor’s obligations pursuant to this Section 6.03, if specified in 6.04(c)(i) shall not constitute a claim against the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates Transferor to the extent the Transferor does not have funds sufficient to make payment of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchangeobligations.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Capital One Master Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, 11.16 a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the Trustee) (the "Transfer Agent and Registrar Registrar") shall provide for the registration of the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for shall initially be Bankers Trust Company and any co-transfer agent and co-registrar chosen by the purposes of registering Transferors and acceptable to the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global CertificateTrustee, the Trustee mayincluding, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European cityLuxembourg. So long as any Investor Certificates are outstanding, the Transferors shall maintain a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in New York City. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. The Trustee may revoke such appointment and remove any Transfer Agent and Registrar if the Trustee determines in its sole discretion that such Transfer Agent and Registrar failed to pexxxxx xxx xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxx xxxx Xxxxxxxxx xx xxx xxterial respect. Any Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written ' notice to the Servicer. In the event that Transferors, the Trustee and the Servicer; provided, however, that such resignation shall no longer not be the effective and such Transfer Agent and Registrar, Registrar shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar until the Trustee shall appoint has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar reasonably acceptable to the Transferors. Upon Subject to paragraph (c) below, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose, one or more new Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders' Interest shall be executed, authenticated and delivered, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees. At the option of a Registered Certificateholder, Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders' Interest, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency; Registered Certificates, including Registered Certificates received in exchange for Bearer CertificateholderCertificates, may not be exchanged for Bearer Certificates. At the option of the Holder of a Bearer Certificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules)regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates (of the same Series in and Class) of authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests fractional undivided interests in the TrustCertificateholders, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such SeriesInterest, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, ; provided that any Bearer Certificate Certificate, so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date payment date or distribution date after the related Series Termination Date expected final payment date need not have attached the Coupons Coupon relating to such Distribution Datepayment date or distribution date (in each case, as specified in the applicable Supplement). Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferors shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than shall deliver (in the Trusteecase of Bearer Certificates, in which case outside the Transfer Agent and Registrar shallUnited States) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Investor Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and or the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Investor Certificateholder thereof or his the attorney-in-fact thereof duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such transfer or exchange of Certificatesexchange. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer CertificatesCoupons) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange or for payment shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Euro-Certificates and shall deliver a certificate Certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferors. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each a Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Euro-Certificates. The Seller Transferors shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement Agreement, each Supplement and the Certificates.
(b) Except The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in each of the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, and, if and so long as provided any Series or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, Luxembourg, an office or agency where Investor Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (except that Bearer Certificates may not be surrendered for exchange at any such office or agency in the United States).
(c) (i) Registration of transfer of Investor Certificates containing a legend substantially to the effect set forth on Exhibit E-1 shall be effected only if such transfer (x) is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Act, or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Act, and (y) is made to a Person which is not an employee benefit plan, trust or account, including an individual retirement account, that is subject to ERISA or that is described in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received 4975(e)
(1) confirmation of the Code or an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in writing such entity (a "Benefit Plan"). In the event that registration of a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result the registration requirements under the Act, the transferor or the transferee shall deliver, at its expense, to the Transferors, the Servicer and the Trustee, an investment letter from the transferee, substantially in a lowering or withdrawal the form of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificatesthe investment and ERISA representation letter attached hereto as Exhibit E-2, and (2) an Opinion no registration of Counsel that transfer shall be made until such letter is so delivered. Investor Certificates issued upon registration or transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date of, or investor Certificates issued in connection with exchange for, Investor Certificates bearing the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that legend referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transferTransferors, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller InterestServicer, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with and the Transfer Agent and Registrar receive an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel, satisfactory to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided furthereach of them, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to legend may be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Coderemoved. In connection with any transfer of Whenever an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement referred to above is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent transfer and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may betransfer. The Servicer Transferors hereby agrees agree to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on relation to any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(cclause (i).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Providian Master Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “"Transfer Agent and Registrar”), ") in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee Bankers Trust Company is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee Bankers Trust Company may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange a stock exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee Bankers Trust Company shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar registrar, which will also be a co-paying agent, in Luxembourg or another European citysuch city as the Transferor may specify. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee Bankers Trust Company shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee Bankers Trust Company shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee Transferor shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c6.3(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 6.3 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee Transferor and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 6.3 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange of any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and or exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the TrusteeTransferor. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 6.9 or 7.02 7.2 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Exchangeable Transferor Certificate or any interest thereintherein be transferred, orsold, as exchanged, pledged, participated or otherwise assignment hereunder (each of the case may beabove, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereundera "Transfer"), in whole or in part, unless (i) the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder Servicer shall have provided an Officer's Certificate to the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would sale, exchange, pledge, participation or assignment will not materially adversely affect the interests of the Certificateholders, (ii) such sale, exchange, pledge, participation or assignment shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel, cause the Trust to be treated characterized for Federal income tax purposes as an association taxable as a publicly traded partnership under corporation or otherwise have a material adverse impact on the Code. In connection with Federal income taxation of any transfer outstanding Series of an interest in Investor Certificates and (iii) the Seller Certificate orServicer shall have provided at least ten Business Days prior written notice to each Rating Agency of such sale, as exchange, pledge, participation or assignment and shall have received written confirmation from each Rating Agency to the case may be, effect of the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller original rating of any Series or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall class of any Series will not sellbe reduced or withdrawn as a result of such sale, trade exchange, pledge, participation or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein assignment, a copy of which confirmation will be provided to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of othersTrustee.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c6.3(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the The City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03York, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the its corporate trust operations office in Columbus, Ohio, such office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, 11.16 a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the Trustee) (the "Transfer Agent and Registrar Registrar") shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for shall initially be the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates Trustee, and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European citychosen by the Trustee and acceptable to the Servicer. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' (60 days' during an Amortization Period) written notice to the Transferor and the Servicer. In the event ; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that such resignation shall not be effective and the Trustee shall no longer be the continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar, Registrar until the Trustee shall appoint Servicer has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar reasonably acceptable to the Transferor. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Investor Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar maintained for such purpose, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Investor Certificates (of the same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that Fractional Interests in the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer CertificatesAggregate Certificateholders' Interest. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates (of the same Series in and Class) of authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided InterestsFractional Interests in the Certificate- holders' Interest, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and or the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions Each Holder must satisfy the transfer restrictions set forth in the Certificates. Each Investor Certificate shall be registered at all times as herein provided, and any transfer or exchange of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, such Investor Certificate will be valid for purposes hereunder only upon registration of such transfer or exchange by the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, Registrar as provided herein. Payments on any Distribution Date shall be made to Holders of record on the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days immediately preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such SeriesRecord Date. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar or any co-transfer agent and co-registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange or exchange, or for payment, shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar cancelled and disposed of in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Seller. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the The City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03York, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
(c) (i) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 6.03, no registration of transfer of any Investor Certificate shall be made unless the transferor or the transferee shall deliver, at its expense, to the Transferor, the Servicer and the Trustee either (A) a representation letter, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit D to this Pooling and Servicing Agreement stating whether such transferee is a "benefit plan investor" as defined in Section 2510.3-101(f)(2) of the Labor Regulations promulgated under ERISA, or (B) if such transferee is an insurance company licensed to issue contracts of insurance in any state, the information described in (c)(ii) below. The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain, as a part of the Certificate Register, a list of all Investor Certificates (or the portion of any thereof) that are held by benefit plan investors on the basis of any representation provided pursuant to the foregoing clause (A) or on the basis of any information provided to the Transfer Agent and Registrar pursuant to the second sentence of clause (ii) below. The Transfer Agent and Registrar will not register the transfer of any Investor Certificate if, immediately after the registration of transfer of such Investor Certificate, 25% or more of the outstanding principal balance of the Investor Certificates of all Series are held by benefit plan investors. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of an Investor Certificate to a benefit plan investor in violation of the preceding sentence shall be void and of no effect.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Wheeling Pittsburgh Corp /De/)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “Certificate Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee JPMorgan Chase Bank is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on an the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee JPMorgan Chase Bank shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee JPMorgan Chase Bank shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c6.3(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, however that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 6.3 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder Certificate holder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 6.3 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the such Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 6.9 or 7.02 7.2 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Transferor Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Transferor Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller Transferor shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Tax Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in such transfer (a copy of which shall be provided to the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of othersRating Agencies).
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set sat forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c6.3(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.036.3, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (First Usa Credit Card Master Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “"Transfer Agent and Registrar”"), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee Transferor shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Exchangeable Transferor Certificate or any interest thereintherein be transferred, orsold, as the case may beexchanged, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest pledged, participated or any interest therein, be transferred otherwise assigned hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller Transferor shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not (i) adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor CertificatesCertificates or (ii) result in a taxable event to the holders of any such Series; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest Invested Amount is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Exchangeable Transferor Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Exchangeable Transferor Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such the Holder of the Exchangeable Transferor Certificate shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale of an equity interest in the Receivables or an equity interest in an entity that owns the Receivables for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (First Usa Credit Card Master Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, Corporate Trust Office a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the Trustee) (the "Transfer Agent and Registrar Registrar") shall provide for the registration of the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, shall initially be the Trustee mayand any co-transfer agent and co-registrar chosen by the Transferors and acceptable to the Trustee, or including, if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European cityLuxembourg. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. The Trustee Transferors may revoke such appointment and remove any Transfer Agent and Registrar if the Transferors, after consultation with the Trustee, determine in their sole discretion that such transfer Agent and Registrar failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. Any Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written ' notice to the Servicer. In the event that Transferors, the Trustee and the Servicer; provided, however, that such resignation shall no longer not be the effective and such Transfer Agent and Registrar, Registrar shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar until the Trustee shall appoint Transferors have appointed a successor Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar reasonably acceptable to the Trustee. Upon Subject to subsection 6.04(c) below, upon surrender for registration of transfer or exchange of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose, one or more new Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders' Interest shall be executed, authenticated and delivered, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees. At the option of a Registered Certificateholder, subject to subsection 6.04(c) below, Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders' Interest, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency; Registered Certificates, including Registered Certificates received in exchange for Bearer CertificateholderCertificates, may not be exchanged for Bearer Certificates. At the option of the Holder of a Bearer Certificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules)regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates (of the same Series in and Class) of authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests fractional undivided interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such SeriesCertificateholders' Interest, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, ; provided that any Bearer Certificate Certificate, so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date payment date or distribution date after the related Series Termination Date expected final payment date need not have attached the Coupons Coupon relating to such Distribution Datepayment date or distribution date (in each case, as specified in the applicable Supplement). The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Certificate for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificate. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferors shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than shall deliver (in the Trusteecase of Bearer Certificates, in which case outside the Transfer Agent and Registrar shallUnited States) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Investor Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and or the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Investor Certificateholder thereof or his the attorney-in-fact thereof duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such transfer or exchange of Certificatesexchange. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer CertificatesCoupons) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange or for payment shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Euro-Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferors. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each a Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Euro-Certificates. The Seller Transferors shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement Agreement, each Supplement and the Certificates. The interest of any Investor Certificateholder in the Trust shall not be transferable other than through the transfer of an Investor Certificate, and except as provided in this Article VI, a Certificate shall not be transferable or divisible.
(b) Except The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, and, if and so long as provided any Series or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, Luxembourg, an office or agency where Investor Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (except that Bearer Certificates may not be surrendered for exchange at any such office or agency in the United States or its territories and possessions).
(c) (i) Registration of transfer of Investor Certificates containing a legend substantially to the effect set forth on Exhibit G-1 shall be effected only if such transfer (x) is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Act, or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Act, and (y) is made to a Person which is not an employee benefit plan, trust or account, including an individual retirement account, that is subject to Title I of ERISA or that is described in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received 4975(e)
(1) confirmation of the Code or an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in writing such entity (a "Benefit Plan"). In the event that registration of a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result the registration requirements under the Act, the transferor or the transferee shall deliver, at its expense, to the Transferors, the Servicer and the Trustee, an investment letter from the transferee, substantially in a lowering or withdrawal the form of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificatesthe investment and ERISA representation letter attached hereto as Exhibit G-2, and (2) no registration of transfer shall be made until such letter is so delivered. Investor Certificates issued upon registration or transfer of, or Investor Certificates issued in exchange for, Investor Certificates bearing the legend referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the Transferor, the Servicer, the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar receive an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any Counsel, satisfactory to each of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; providedthem, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to legend may be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Coderemoved. In connection with any transfer of Whenever an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement referred to above is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer Transferors regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent transfer and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer an officer of each Transferor prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may betransfer. The Servicer Transferors hereby agrees agree to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on relation to any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(cclause (i).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (American Express Receivables Financing Corp Iii LLC)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, 11.16 a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the Trustee) (the "Transfer Agent and Registrar Registrar") shall provide for the registration of the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for shall initially be Bankers Trust Company and any co-transfer agent and co-registrar chosen by the purposes of registering Transferors and acceptable to the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global CertificateTrustee, the Trustee mayincluding, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European cityLuxembourg. So long as any Investor Certificates are outstanding, the Transferors shall maintain a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in New York City. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. The Trustee may revoke such appointment and remove any Transfer Agent and Registrar if the Trustee determines in its sole discretion that such Transfer Agent and Registrar failed to pxxxxxx xxx xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxx xxxx Xxxxxxxxx xx xxx xaterial respect. Any Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written ' notice to the Servicer. In the event that Transferors, the Trustee and the Servicer; provided, however, that such resignation shall no longer not be the effective and such Transfer Agent and Registrar, Registrar shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar until the Trustee shall appoint has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar reasonably acceptable to the Transferors. Upon Subject to paragraph (c) below, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose, one or more new Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders' Interest shall be executed, authenticated and delivered, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees. At the option of a Registered Certificateholder, Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders' Interest, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency; Registered Certificates, including Registered Certificates received in exchange for Bearer CertificateholderCertificates, may not be exchanged for Bearer Certificates. At the option of the Holder of a Bearer Certificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules)regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates (of the same Series in and Class) of authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests fractional undivided interests in the TrustCertificateholders, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such SeriesInterest, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, ; provided that any Bearer Certificate Certificate, so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date payment date or distribution date after the related Series Termination Date expected final payment date need not have attached the Coupons Coupon relating to such Distribution Datepayment date or distribution date (in each case, as specified in the applicable Supplement). Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferors shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than shall deliver (in the Trusteecase of Bearer Certificates, in which case outside the Transfer Agent and Registrar shallUnited States) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Investor Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and or the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Investor Certificateholder thereof or his the attorney-in-fact thereof duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such transfer or exchange of Certificatesexchange. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer CertificatesCoupons) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange or for payment shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Euro-Certificates and shall deliver a certificate Certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferors. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each a Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Euro-Certificates. The Seller Transferors shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement Agreement, each Supplement and the Certificates.
(b) Except The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in each of the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, and, if and so long as provided any Series or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, Luxembourg, an office or agency where Investor Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (except that Bearer Certificates may not be surrendered for exchange at any such office or agency in the United States).
(c) (i) Registration of transfer of Investor Certificates containing a legend substantially to the effect set forth on Exhibit E-1 shall be effected only if such transfer (x) is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Act, or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Act, and (y) is made to a Person which is not an employee benefit plan, trust or account, including an individual retirement account, that is subject to ERISA or that is described in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received 4975(e)
(1) confirmation of the Code or an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in writing such entity (a "Benefit Plan"). In the event that registration of a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result the registration requirements under the Act, the transferor or the transferee shall deliver, at its expense, to the Transferors, the Servicer and the Trustee, an investment letter from the transferee, substantially in a lowering or withdrawal the form of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificatesthe investment and ERISA representation letter attached hereto as Exhibit E-2, and (2) an Opinion no registration of Counsel that transfer shall be made until such letter is so delivered. Investor Certificates issued upon registration or transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date of, or investor Certificates issued in connection with exchange for, Investor Certificates bearing the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that legend referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transferTransferors, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller InterestServicer, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with and the Transfer Agent and Registrar receive an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel, satisfactory to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided furthereach of them, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to legend may be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Coderemoved. In connection with any transfer of Whenever an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement referred to above is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent transfer and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may betransfer. The Servicer Transferors hereby agrees agree to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on relation to any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(cclause (i).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Providian Master Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, 11.16 a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the Trustee) (the "Transfer Agent and Registrar Registrar") shall provide for the registration of the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, shall initially be the Trustee mayand any co-transfer agent and co-registrar chosen by the Transferor and acceptable to the Trustee, or including, if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European cityLuxembourg. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. The Trustee may revoke such appointment and remove any Transfer Agent and Registrar if the Trustee determines in its sole discretion that such Transfer Agent and Registrar failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. Any Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written ' notice to the Servicer. In the event that Transferor, the Trustee and the Servicer; provided, however, that such resignation shall no longer not be the effective and such Transfer Agent and Registrar, Registrar shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar until the Trustee shall appoint has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar reasonably acceptable to the Transferor. Upon Subject to paragraph (c) below, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates one or more new Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered "An asterisk [*] indicates that certain information has been omitted from this agreement pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered a request for exchange, the Seller shall execute, confidential treatment and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Seller. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection has been filed separately with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing Securities and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of othersExchange Commission.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange."
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee Certificate Registrar shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “Certificate Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby shall initially appointed Transfer Agent and serve as Certificate Registrar for the purposes purpose of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If The Trustee as Certificate Registrar shall be subject to the same standards of care, limitations on liability and rights to indemnity as the Trustee, and the provisions of Sections 8.01, 8.02, 8.03, 8.04, 8.05, 8.14 and 8.15 shall apply to the Certificate Registrar to the same extent as they apply to the Trustee. Any Certificate Registrar appointed in accordance with this Section 5.02(a) may at any form time resign by giving at least 30 days' advance written notice of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificateresignation to the Trustee, the Trustee mayServicer and the Depositor, or if and so long as any Series such resignation to become effective upon appointment of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and RegistrarCertificate Registrar maintained for such purpose pursuant to the foregoing paragraph and, in the case of a Residual Certificate, upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth below, the Seller Trustee on behalf of the Trust shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), execute and the Trustee Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like the same aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer CertificatesPercentage Interest. At the option of an Investor Certificateholderthe Certificateholders, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like and the same aggregate Undivided Percentage Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Trustee shall execute, execute on behalf of the Trust and the Trustee Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and (unless deliver the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor 109 Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall (if so required by the Trustee or the Certificate Registrar) be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar duly executed by by, the Certificateholder Holder thereof or his attorney-in-fact attorney duly authorized in writing.
(b) Upon original issuance, the Book-Entry Certificates shall be issued in the form of one or more typewritten certificates, to be delivered to the Depository, the initial Depository, by, or on behalf of, the Depositor; or to, and deposited with the Certificate Custodian, on behalf of the Depository, if directed to do so pursuant to instructions from the Depository. Except as provided in paragraph (c) below, the Book-Entry Certificates shall at all times remain registered in the name of the Depository or its nominee and at all times: (i) registration of such Certificates may not be transferred by the Trustee except to another Depository; (ii) the Depository shall maintain book-entry records with respect to the Certificate Owners and with respect to ownership and transfers of such Certificates; (iii) ownership and transfers of registration of such Certificates on the books of the Depository shall be governed by applicable rules established by the Depository; (iv) the Depository may collect its usual and customary fees, charges and expenses from its Depository Participants; (v) the Trustee shall for all purposes deal with the Depository as representative of the Certificate Owners of the Certificates for purposes of exercising the rights of Holders under this Agreement, and requests and directions for and votes of such representative shall not be deemed to be inconsistent if they are made with respect to different Certificate Owners; (vi) the Trustee may rely and shall be fully protected in relying upon information furnished by the Depository with respect to its Depository Participants and furnished by the Depository Participants with respect to indirect participating firms and Persons shown on the books of such indirect participating firms as direct or indirect Certificate Owners; and (vii) the direct participants of the Depository shall have no rights under this Agreement under or with respect to any of the Certificates held on their behalf by the Depository, and the Depository may be treated by the Trustee and their agents, employees, officers and directors as the absolute owner of the Certificates for all purposes whatsoever. All transfers by Certificate Owners of Book-Entry Certificates shall be made in accordance with the procedures established by the Depository Participant or brokerage firm representing such Certificate Owners. Each Depository Participant shall only transfer Book-Entry Certificates of Certificate Owners that it represents or of brokerage firms for which it acts as agent in accordance with the Depository's normal procedures. The preceding provisions parties hereto are hereby authorized to execute a Letter of Representations with the Depository or take such other action as may be necessary or desirable to register a Book-Entry Certificate to the Depository. In the event of any conflict between the terms of any such Letter of Representation and this Agreement, the terms of this Section 6.03 notwithstandingAgreement shall control.
(c) If (i)(x) the Depository or the Depositor advises the Trustee in writing that the Depository is no longer willing or able to discharge properly its responsibilities as Depository and (y) the Depositor is unable to locate a qualified successor, (ii) the Depositor, at its sole option elects to terminate the book-entry system through the Depository or (iii) after the occurrence of a Servicer Event of Termination, the Certificate Owners of each Class of Book-Entry Certificates representing Percentage Interests of such Classes aggregating not less than 51% advises the Trustee and Depository through the Financial Intermediaries and the Depository Participants in writing that the continuation of a book-entry system through the Depository to the exclusion of definitive, fully registered certificates (the "Definitive Certificates") to Certificate Owners is no longer in the best interests of the Certificate Owners. Upon surrender to the Certificate Registrar of the Book-Entry Certificates by the Depository, accompanied by registration instructions from the Depository for registration, the Trustee shall, at the Depositor's expense, in the case of (ii) above, or the Seller's expense, in the case of (i) and (iii) above, execute on behalf of the Trust and the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate the Definitive Certificates. Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall be liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions and may conclusively rely on, and 110 shall be protected in relying on, such instructions. Upon the issuance of Definitive Certificates, the Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer, any Paying Agent and the Depositor shall recognize the Holders of the Definitive Certificates as Certificateholders hereunder.
(d) No transfer, sale, pledge or other disposition of any Private Certificate shall be made unless such disposition is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933 Act"), and any applicable state securities laws or is made in accordance with the 1933 Act and laws. In the event of any such transfer, other than the initial transfer of the Private Certificates by the Depositor, (i) unless such transfer is made in reliance upon Rule 144A (as evidenced by the investment letter delivered to the Certificate Registrar, in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit J) under the 1933 Act, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor may require a written Opinion of Counsel (which may be in-house counsel) acceptable to and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption, describing the applicable exemption and the basis therefor, from the 1933 Act or is being made pursuant to the 1933 Act, which Opinion of Counsel shall not be an expense of the Certificate Registrar, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Seller. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise Depositor or (ii) the Certificate Registrar shall require the transferor to execute a “secondary market transferor certificate (in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit L) and the transferee to execute an investment letter (in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit J) acceptable to and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Depositor and the Certificate Registrar certifying to the Depositor and the Certificate Registrar the facts surrounding such transfer, which investment letter shall not be an expense of the Certificate Registrar or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning Depositor. The Holder of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Private Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready desiring to effect buy or sell transactions at such transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transferTrustee, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless Depositor against any loss, liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or is not made in connection accordance with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c)federal and state laws.
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (C-Bass Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-Cb8)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”"TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR"), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “Certificate Register”"CERTIFICATE REGISTER") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed the initial Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein providedRegistrar. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, with the Trustee consent of the Trustee, the Transferor may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall Transferor shall, appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c6.3(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor CertificateholderHolder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder Holder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 6.3 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 6.9 or 7.02 7.2 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may bethis subsection 6.3(b), the uncertificated interest in Transferor shall not transfer the Seller Transferor Interest or any interest therein. The Transferor may from time to time transfer a portion of the Transferor Interest by causing the issuance of one or more Certificates (each a "SUPPLEMENTAL CERTIFICATE"), the terms of which shall be transferred hereunderdefined in a Supplement (which Supplement shall be subject to Section 13.1(a) to the extent that it amends any of the terms of this Agreement), to be delivered to or upon the order of the Transferor (or the Holder of a Supplemental Certificate, in whole the case of the transfer or exchange thereof, as provided below), upon satisfaction of the following conditions:
(i) the Transferor Interest shall not be less than the Minimum Transferor Interest, in parteach case as of the date of, unless and after giving effect to, such exchange;
(ii) the Seller Rating Agency Condition shall have consented in writing been satisfied with respect to such exchange (or transfer and unless or exchange as provided below); and
(iii) the Transferor shall have delivered to the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from and each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor CertificatesTax Opinion, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection date of such exchange (or transfer or exchange as provided below), with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller respect thereto. Any Supplemental Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) exchanged only upon satisfaction of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or conditions set forth in clauses (ii) a “secondary market and (or the substantial equivalent thereofiii)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer (or the Transferor, if a Successor Servicer is Servicer) regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Agent, Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer (or an officer of the Transferor, if a Successor Servicer is Servicer) prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to (or the Transferor, if a Successor Servicer is Servicer) shall indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c6.3(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange[Reserved].
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Mellon Premium Finance Loan Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “Certificate Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the ServicerServicer and the Transferor. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agencyagency of the Transferor Agent and Registrar. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Transferor Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Transferor Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller Transferor shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Transferor Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Transferor Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”). In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Transferor Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Transferor Interest, the holder (including the Seller Transferor or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Transferor Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Transferor Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer Transferor regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer an officer of the Transferor prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer Transferor hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c). The Transferor’s obligation pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c) shall not constitute a claim against the Trust Assets and shall only constitute a claim against the Transferor to the extent the Transferor has funds sufficient to make payment on such obligations from amounts paid to it as Holder of the Transferor Interest.
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (BA Master Credit Card Trust II)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, 11.16 a register (the “Certificate Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the Trustee) (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar Registrar”) shall provide for the registration of the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges shall be, as of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If date hereof, The Bank of New York and any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificateco-transfer agent and co-registrar chosen by the Transferor and acceptable to the Trustee, the Trustee may, or including if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, a co-transfer agent and co- registrar in Luxembourg. So long as any Investor Certificates are outstanding, the Trustee Transferor shall appoint maintain a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European cityNew York City. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-co- registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. The Trustee may revoke such appointment and remove any Transfer Agent and Registrar if the Trustee determines in its sole discretion that such Transfer Agent and Registrar failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. Any Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written thirty (30) days notice to the Servicer. In the event that Transferor, the Trustee and the Servicer; provided, however, that such resignation shall no longer not be the effective and such Transfer Agent and Registrar, Registrar shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar until the Trustee shall appoint Transferor has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar reasonably acceptable to the Trustee. Upon Subject to paragraph (c) below, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose, one or more new Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders’ Interest shall be executed, authenticated and delivered, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees. At the option of a Registered Certificateholder, Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders’ Interest, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency; Registered Certificates, including Registered Certificates received in exchange for Bearer CertificateholderCertificates, may not be exchanged for Bearer Certificates. At the option of the Holder of a Bearer Certificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules)regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates (of the same Series in and Class) of authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests fractional undivided interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such SeriesCertificateholders’ Interest, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, ; provided that any Bearer Certificate Certificate, so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date payment date or distribution date after the related Series Termination Date expected final payment date need not have attached the Coupons Coupon relating to such Distribution Datepayment date or distribution date (in each case, as specified in the applicable Supplement). Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than shall deliver (in the Trusteecase of Bearer Certificates, in which case outside the Transfer Agent and Registrar shallUnited States) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Investor Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and or the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Investor Certificateholder thereof or his the attorney-in-in- fact thereof duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such transfer or exchange of Certificatesexchange. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer CertificatesCoupons) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange or for payment shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Euro-Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each a Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Euro-Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement Agreement, each Supplement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall each of the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may beBorough of Manhattan, the uncertificated interest City of New York, and, if and so long as any Series or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, Luxembourg, an office or agency where Investor Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (except that Bearer Certificates may not be surrendered for exchange at any such office or agency in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, United States).
(c) (i) Registration of transfer of Investor Certificates containing a legend substantially to the effect set forth on Exhibit E-1 shall be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to effected only if such transfer and unless (x) is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing Act, or is exempt from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificatesthe registration requirements under the Act, and (2y) is made to a Person which is not an Opinion of Counsel employee benefit plan, trust or account, including an individual retirement account, that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached is subject to ERISA or that is described in any Section 4975(e)(1) of the federal income tax opinions dated Code or an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan’s investment in such entity (a “Benefit Plan”). In the applicable Closing Date event that registration of a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the registration requirements under the Act, the transferor or the transferee shall deliver, at its expense, to the Transferor, the Servicer and the Transfer Agent and Registrar, an investment letter from the transferee, substantially in the form of the investment and ERISA representation letter attached hereto as Exhibit E-2, and no registration of transfer shall be made until such letter is so delivered. Investor Certificates issued upon registration or transfer of, or Investor Certificates issued in connection with exchange for, Investor Certificates bearing the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that legend referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transferTransferor, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller InterestServicer, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with and the Transfer Agent and Registrar receive an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel, satisfactory to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided furthereach of them, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to legend may be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Coderemoved. In connection with any transfer of Whenever an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement referred to above is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer Transferor regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent transfer and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer an officer of the Transferor prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may betransfer. The Servicer Transferor hereby agrees agree to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on relation to any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(cclause (i).
(d) . The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject Transferor’s obligations pursuant to this Section 6.03, if specified in 6.04(c)(i) shall not constitute a claim against the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates Transferor to the extent the Transferor does not have funds sufficient to make payment of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchangeobligations.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, Corporate Trust Office a register (the “Certificate Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the Trustee) (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar Registrar”) shall provide for the registration of the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, shall initially be the Trustee mayand any co-transfer agent and co-registrar chosen by the Transferors and acceptable to the Trustee, or including, if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-co- registrar in Luxembourg or another European cityLuxembourg. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. The Trustee Transferors may revoke such appointment and remove any Transfer Agent and Registrar if the Transferors, after consultation with the Trustee, determine in their sole discretion that such transfer Agent and Registrar failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. Any Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the Servicer. In the event that Transferors, the Trustee and the Servicer; provided, however, that such resignation shall no longer not be the effective and such Transfer Agent and Registrar, Registrar shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar until the Trustee shall appoint Transferors have appointed a successor Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar reasonably acceptable to the Trustee. Upon Subject to subsection 6.04(c) below, upon surrender for registration of transfer or exchange of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose, one or more new Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders’ Interest shall be executed, authenticated and delivered, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees. At the option of a Registered Certificateholder, subject to subsection 6.04(c) below, Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders’ Interest, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency; Registered Certificates, including Registered Certificates received in exchange for Bearer CertificateholderCertificates, may not be exchanged for Bearer Certificates. At the option of the Holder of a Bearer Certificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules)regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates (of the same Series in and Class) of authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests fractional undivided interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such SeriesCertificateholders’ Interest, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, ; provided that any Bearer Certificate Certificate, so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date payment date or distribution date after the related Series Termination Date expected final payment date need not have attached the Coupons Coupon relating to such Distribution Datepayment date or distribution date (in each case, as specified in the applicable Supplement). The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Certificate for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificate. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferors shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than shall deliver (in the Trusteecase of Bearer Certificates, in which case outside the Transfer Agent and Registrar shallUnited States) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Investor Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and or the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Investor Certificateholder thereof or his the attorney-in-in- fact thereof duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such transfer or exchange of Certificatesexchange. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer CertificatesCoupons) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange or for payment shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Euro-Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferors. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each a Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Euro-Certificates. The Seller Transferors shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement Agreement, each Supplement and the Certificates. The interest of any Investor Certificateholder in the Trust shall not be transferable other than through the transfer of an Investor Certificate, and except as provided in this Article VI, a Certificate shall not be transferable or divisible.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the The City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03York, and, if specified in and so long as any Series or Class is listed on the related Supplement for any SeriesLuxembourg Stock Exchange, any other city designated in such Supplement) Luxembourg, an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchangeexchange (except that Bearer Certificates may not be surrendered for exchange at any such office or agency in the United States or its territories and possessions).
(c) (i) Registration of transfer of Investor Certificates containing a legend substantially to the effect set forth on Exhibit G-1 shall be effected only if such transfer
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “Certificate Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee Transferor shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Holder of a Bearer CertificateholderCertificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United StatesStates of America. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than from the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Exchangeable Transferor Certificate or any interest therein, therein or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Transferor Interest or any interest therein, be transferred transferred, sold, exchanged, pledged, participated or otherwise assigned hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller Transferor shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2x) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer (i) does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would (ii) will not cause the Trust to be treated as a deemed to be an association or “publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder partnership” (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(17704(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 Code) taxable as a corporation and (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (iiy) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests any such transfer, sale, exchange, pledge, participation or assignment to an entity which is not an Affiliate of the Transferor, confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates. The Transferor shall give each Rating Agency notice of any such transfer, sale, exchange, pledge, participation or assignment to an Affiliate of the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of othersTransferor.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (First Usa Credit Card Master Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, SECTION 11.16 a register (the “Certificate Register”"CERTIFICATE REGISTER") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be Trustee) (the Transfer Agent and Registrar "TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR") shall provide for the registration of the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for on the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates Effective Date shall be BNY Midwest Trust Company and transfers any co-transfer agent and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificateco-registrar chosen by Transferor and acceptable to Trustee, the Trustee mayincluding, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European cityLuxembourg. So long as any Investor Certificates are outstanding, Transferor shall maintain a Transfer Agent and Registrar in New York City. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. The Trustee may revoke such appointment and remove any Transfer Agent and Registrar if Trustee determines in its sole discretion that such Transfer Agent and Registrar failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. Any Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written ' notice to the Transferor, Trustee and Servicer. In the event ; PROVIDED that the Trustee such resignation shall no longer not be the effective and such Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Registrar shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar until Trustee shall appoint has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar reasonably acceptable to Transferor. Upon Subject to PARAGRAPH (c), upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose, one or more new Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Investor Interest shall be executed, authenticated and delivered, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees. At the option of a Registered Holder, Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Investor Interest, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency; Registered Certificates, including Registered Certificates received in exchange for Bearer CertificateholderCertificates, may not be exchanged for Bearer Certificates. At the option of the Holder of a Bearer Certificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules)regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates (of the same Series in and Class) of authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests fractional undivided interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such SeriesInvestor Interest, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided ; PROVIDED that any Bearer Certificate Certificate, so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date payment date or distribution date 55 after the related Series Termination Date expected final payment date need not have attached the Coupons Coupon relating to such Distribution Datepayment date or distribution date (in each case, as specified in the applicable Supplement). Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than shall deliver (in the Trusteecase of Bearer Certificates, in which case outside the Transfer Agent and Registrar shallUnited States) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder Investor Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and or the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof Investor Holder or his the attorney-in-fact thereof duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such transfer or exchange of Certificatesexchange. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer CertificatesCoupons) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange or for payment shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Euro-Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign a foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 required by the applicable Supplement was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Euro-Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement Agreement, each Supplement and the Certificates.
(b) Except The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the City of New York and an office or agency where Investor Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (except that Bearer Certificates may not be surrendered for exchange at any such office or agency in the United States). If and so long as provided in Section 6.09 any Series or 7.02 or in any SupplementClass is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange an agent shall be appointed, at the Servicer's expense, in no event Luxembourg.
(c) (i) Registration of transfer of Investor Certificates containing (x) a legend substantially to the effect set forth on EXHIBIT D-1 shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to effected only if such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and unless (y) a legend substantially to the Trustee effect set forth on EXHIBIT D-3 shall have received be effected only if such transfer is made to a Person that is not (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering an employee benefit plan or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificatesother plan, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate trust or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder account (including the Seller or any subsequent transfereean individual retirement account) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(13.3 of ERISA, whether or not subject to ERISA (including, without limitation, Foreign and governmental plans) or described by Section 4975(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code or (2) any collective investment fund, insurance company separate or general account or other entity whose underlying assets include "plan assets" of 1986 the foregoing by reason of an employee benefit plan's or other plan's investment in such entity (each, a "BENEFIT PLAN") unless it is an insurance company using the “Code”assets of its general account and, at the time 56 of acquisition and throughout its holding of the certificate (a) it is not a service provider to the trust or an affiliate of the foregoing, and would not otherwise be excluded under 29 C.F.R. 2510.3-101(f)(1), including without limitation and (b) each of the accounts to which such certificate is allocated is an interdealer quotation system insurance company general account (1) that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or is eligible for and meets the requirements of Department of Labor Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 95-60 and (ii2) a “secondary market of which less than 25% of the assets are (or represent) assets of a Benefit Plan. If registration of a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the substantial equivalent thereof)” within registration requirements under the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2)Securities Act, including a market wherein interests the transferor or the transferee shall deliver, at its expense, to Transferor, Servicer and Trustee, an investment letter from the transferee, substantially in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests form of the investment representation letter attached hereto as EXHIBIT D-2, and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no registration of transfer shall be made until such letter is so delivered. Investor Certificates issued upon registration or transfer of, or Investor Certificates issued in exchange for, Investor Certificates bearing a legend referred to above shall also bear such legend unless Transferor, Servicer, Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar receive an Opinion of Registered Certificates Counsel, satisfactory to each of them, to the effect that such legend may be removed. Whenever an Investor Certificate containing a legend relating referred to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement above is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent transfer and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may betransfer. The Servicer Transferor hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and their respective officers, directors, agents and employees and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on relation to any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c)paragraph. The preceding sentence shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the earlier removal or resignation of the Trustee.
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (World Financial Network Credit Card Master Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “"Transfer Agent and Registrar”"), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed the initial Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein providedRegistrar. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c6.3(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor CertificateholderHolder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Holder of a Bearer CertificateholderCertificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 6.3 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder Holder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 6.3 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 6.9 or 7.02 7.2 or in any Supplementthis subsection 6.3(b), in no event Transferor shall not transfer the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Transferor Interest or any interest therein. Transferor may from time to time transfer a portion of the Transferor Interest by causing the issuance of one or more Certificates (each a "Supplemental Certificate"), the terms of which shall be transferred hereunderdefined in a Supplement (which Supplement shall be subject to Section 13.1(a) to the extent that it amends any of the terms of this Agreement), to be delivered to or upon the order of Transferor (or the Holder of a Supplemental Certificate, in whole the case of the transfer or exchange thereof, as provided below), upon satisfaction of the following conditions:
(i) the Transferor Interest shall not be less than the Minimum Transferor Interest, in parteach case as of the date of, unless and after giving effect to, such exchange;
(ii) the Seller Rating Agency Condition shall have consented in writing been satisfied with respect to such exchange (or transfer and unless the Trustee or exchange as provided below); and
(iii) Transferor shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from delivered to Trustee and each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor CertificatesTax Opinion, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection date of such exchange (or transfer or exchange as provided below), with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller respect thereto. Any Supplemental Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) exchanged only upon satisfaction of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or conditions set forth in clauses (ii) a “secondary market and (or the substantial equivalent thereofiii)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from Servicer (or Transferor, if the Back-up Servicer is Servicer) regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Agent, Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer (or an officer of Transferor, if the Back-up Servicer is Servicer) prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to shall indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c6.3(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.036.3, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an any agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Mellon Bank Premium Finance Master Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, 11.16 a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the Trustee) (the "Transfer Agent and Registrar Registrar") shall provide for the registration of the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, shall initially be the Trustee mayand any co-transfer agent and co-registrar chosen by the Transferors and acceptable to the Trustee, or including, if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European cityLuxembourg. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. The Trustee may revoke such appointment and remove any Transfer Agent and Registrar if the Trustee determines in its sole discretion that such Transfer Agent and Registrar failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. Any Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written ' notice to the Servicer. In the event that Transferors, the Trustee and the Master Servicer; provided, however, that such resignation shall no longer not be the effective and such Transfer Agent and Registrar, Registrar shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar until the Trustee shall appoint has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar reasonably acceptable to the Transferors. Upon Subject to paragraph (c) below, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Seller. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.maintained
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), Trustee) (the "TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR") in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, 8.16 a register (the “Certificate Register”"CERTIFICATE REGISTER") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it the Trustee may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Company hereby appoints the Trustee is hereby initially appointed as the initial Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes purpose of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee mayThe Company, or if and so long the Trustee, as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on agent for the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and Company, may revoke such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the appointment as Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include and remove the then-acting Transfer Agent and Registrar if the Trustee or the Company (as applicable) determines in its sole discretion that the then-acting Transfer Agent and Registrar has failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresmaterial respect. The Trustee then-acting Transfer 66 Agent and Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Company, the Trustee and the Servicer. In the event ; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that such resignation shall not be effective and the Trustee shall no longer be the continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar, Registrar until the Trustee shall appoint has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar reasonably acceptable to the Company and such successor Transfer Agent and Registrar has accepted such appointment. The provisions of Sections 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.5 and 10.19 shall apply to the Trustee also in its role as Transfer Agent and Registrar for so long as the Trustee shall act as Transfer Agent and Registrar. The Company hereby agrees to provide the Trustee from time to time sufficient funds, on a timely basis and in accordance with and subject to Section 8.5, for the payment of any reasonable compensation payable to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for its services under this Section 5.3. The Company, Trustee and Transfer Agent and Registrar shall agree on such compensation in writing. The Trustee hereby agrees that, upon the receipt of such funds from the Company, it shall promptly pay the Transfer Agent and Registrar such amounts. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Investor Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar maintained for such purpose, the Seller Company shall execute, subject to and, upon the provisions written request of subsection 6.03(c)the Company, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Investor Certificates in authorized denominations of the same Series representing like aggregate Fractional Undivided Interests; provided, Interests and which bear numbers that the provisions of this paragraph shall are not apply to Bearer Certificatescontemporaneously outstanding. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Fractional Undivided Interests, bearing numbers that are not contemporaneously outstanding, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Company shall execute, and and, upon the written request of the Company, the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than from the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Investor Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer substantially in a the form satisfactory attached to the Trustee form of such Investor Certificate and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder holder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, writing delivered to the Trustee or (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different from the Trustee, in which case to the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange ) and complying with any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided requirements set forth in the related applicable Supplement, no . No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of any Investor Certificateholder that is transferring or exchanging one or more Certificates to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar cancelled and disposed of in a customary manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Seller. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Company shall execute and deliver Certificates to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates Registrar in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar to fulfill its their respective responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates. No interest of any Investor Certificateholder in the Receivables may be transferred other than by means of a transfer of an Investor Certificate.
(b) Except as provided The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York and, subject to subsection 5.3(a), if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate an office or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest offices or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole agency or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of agencies where Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided surrendered for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade registration or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of othersexchange.
(c) Unless otherwise provided stated in the any related SupplementSupplements, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such the related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing complied with. Certificates issued upon registration or transfer of, or in exchange for, Certificates bearing the legend set forth in referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the related Supplement is presented to Company, the Servicer, the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration receive an Opinion of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled Counsel satisfactory to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any lossthem, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any to the effect that such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c)legend may be removed.
(d) (i) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in Company may not transfer, assign, exchange or otherwise pledge or convey the Borough Series Subordinated Interest of Manhattanany Series or the Exchangeable Company Interest except, with respect to the City of New York (and subject Exchangeable Company Interest, pursuant to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange5.10.
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, 11.16 a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the Trustee) (the "Transfer Agent and Registrar Registrar") shall provide for the registration of the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, shall initially be the Trustee mayand any co-transfer agent and co-registrar chosen by the Transferor and acceptable to the Trustee, or including, if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European cityLuxembourg. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. The Trustee may revoke such appointment and remove any Transfer Agent and Registrar if the Trustee determines in its sole discretion that such Transfer Agent and Registrar failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. Any Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written ' notice to the Servicer. In the event that Transferor, the Trustee and the Servicer; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that such resignation shall no longer not be the effective and such Transfer Agent and Registrar, Registrar shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar until the Trustee shall appoint has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar reasonably acceptable to the Transferor. Upon Subject to paragraph (c) below, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose, one or more new Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders' Interest shall be executed, authenticated and delivered, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees. At the option of a Registered Certificateholder, Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders' Interest, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency; Registered Certificates, including Registered Certificates received in exchange for Bearer CertificateholderCertificates, may not be exchanged for Bearer Certificates. At the option of the Holder of a Bearer Certificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules)regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates (of the same Series in and Class) of authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests fractional undivided interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such SeriesCertificateholders' Interest, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, ; provided that any Bearer Certificate Certificate, so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date payment date after the related Series Termination Date expected final payment date need not have attached the Coupons Coupon relating to such Distribution Datepayment date (in each case, as specified in the applicable Supplement). Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than shall deliver (in the Trusteecase of Bearer Certificates, in which case outside the Transfer Agent and Registrar shallUnited States) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Investor Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and or the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Investor Certificateholder thereof or his the attorney-in-fact thereof duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such transfer or exchange of Certificatesexchange. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer CertificatesCoupons) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange or for payment shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Euro-Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each a Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Euro-Certificates. The Seller Travelers Bank shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement Agreement, each Supplement and the Certificates.
(b) Except The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in each of the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York, and, if and so long as provided any Series or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, Luxembourg, an office or agency where Investor Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (except that Bearer Certificates may not be surrendered for exchange at any such office or agency in the United States).
(c) (i) Registration of transfer of Investor Certificates containing a legend substantially to the effect set forth on Exhibit E-1 shall be effected only if such transfer (x) is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Act, or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Act, and (y) is made to a Person which is not an employee benefit plan, trust or account, including an individual retirement account, that is subject to ERISA or that is described in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received 4975(e)
(1) confirmation of the Code or an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in writing such entity (a "Benefit Plan"). In the event that registration of a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result the registration requirements under the Act, the transferor or the transferee shall deliver, at its expense, to the Transferor, the Servicer and the Trustee, an investment letter from the transferee, substantially in a lowering or withdrawal the form of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificatesthe investment and ERISA representation letter attached hereto as Exhibit E-2, and (2) no registration of transfer shall be made until such letter is so delivered. Investor Certificates issued upon registration or transfer of, or Investor Certificates issued in exchange for, Investor Certificates bearing the legend referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the Transferor, the Servicer, the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar receive an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any Counsel, satisfactory to each of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; providedthem, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to legend may be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Coderemoved. In connection with any transfer of Whenever an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement referred to above is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent transfer and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may betransfer. The Servicer Transferor hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on relation to any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(cclause (i).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Travelers Bank Credit Card Master Trust I)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, SECTION 11.16 a register (the “Certificate Register”"CERTIFICATE REGISTER") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be Trustee) (the Transfer Agent and Registrar "TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR") shall provide for the registration of the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for on the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates Effective Date shall be BNY Midwest Trust Company and transfers any co-transfer agent and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificateco-registrar chosen by Transferor and acceptable to Trustee, the Trustee mayincluding, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European cityLuxembourg. So long as any Investor Certificates are outstanding, Transferor shall maintain a Transfer Agent and Registrar in New York City. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. The Trustee may revoke such appointment and remove any Transfer Agent and Registrar if Trustee determines in its sole discretion that such Transfer Agent and Registrar failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. Any Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written ' notice to the Transferor, Trustee and Servicer. In the event ; PROVIDED that the Trustee such resignation shall no longer not be the effective and such Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Registrar shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar until Trustee shall appoint has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar reasonably acceptable to Transferor. Upon Subject to PARAGRAPH (c), upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose, one or more new Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Investor Interest shall be executed, authenticated and delivered, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees. At the option of a Registered Holder, Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Investor Interest, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency; Registered Certificates, including Registered Certificates received in exchange for Bearer CertificateholderCertificates, may not be exchanged for Bearer Certificates. At the option of the Holder of a Bearer Certificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules)regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates (of the same Series in and Class) of authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests fractional undivided interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such SeriesInvestor Interest, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided ; PROVIDED that any Bearer Certificate Certificate, so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date payment date or distribution date after the related Series Termination Date expected final payment date need not have attached the Coupons Coupon relating to such Distribution Datepayment date or distribution date (in each case, as specified in the applicable Supplement). Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than shall deliver (in the Trusteecase of Bearer Certificates, in which case outside the Transfer Agent and Registrar shallUnited States) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder Investor Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and or the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof Investor Holder or his the attorney-in-fact thereof duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such transfer or exchange of Certificatesexchange. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer CertificatesCoupons) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange or for payment shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Euro-Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign a foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 required by the applicable Supplement was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Euro-Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement Agreement, each Supplement and the Certificates.
(b) Except The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the City of New York and an office or agency where Investor Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (except that Bearer Certificates may not be surrendered for exchange at any such office or agency in the United States). If and so long as provided in Section 6.09 any Series or 7.02 or in any SupplementClass is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange an agent shall be appointed, at the Servicer's expense, in no event Luxembourg.
(c) (i) Registration of transfer of Investor Certificates containing (x) a legend substantially to the effect set forth on EXHIBIT D-1 shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to effected only if such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and unless (y) a legend substantially to the Trustee effect set forth on EXHIBIT D-3 shall have received be effected only if such transfer is made to a Person that is not (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering an employee benefit plan or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificatesother plan, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate trust or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder account (including the Seller or any subsequent transfereean individual retirement account) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(13.3 of ERISA, whether or not subject to ERISA (including, without limitation, Foreign and governmental plans) or described by Section 4975(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code or (2) any collective investment fund, insurance company separate or general account or other entity whose underlying assets include "plan assets" of 1986 the foregoing by reason of an employee benefit plan's or other plan's investment in such entity (each, a "BENEFIT PLAN") unless it is an insurance company using the “Code”assets of its general account and, at the time of acquisition and throughout its holding of the certificate (a) it is not a service provider to the trust or an affiliate of the foregoing, and would not otherwise be excluded under 29 C.F.R. 2510.3-101(f)(1), including without limitation and (b) each of the accounts to which such certificate is allocated is an interdealer quotation system insurance company general account (1) that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or is eligible for and meets the requirements of Department of Labor Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 95-60 and (ii2) a “secondary market of which less than 25% of the assets are (or represent) assets of a Benefit Plan. If registration of a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the substantial equivalent thereof)” within registration requirements under the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2)Securities Act, including a market wherein interests the transferor or the transferee shall deliver, at its expense, to Transferor, Servicer and Trustee, an investment letter from the transferee, substantially in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests form of the investment representation letter attached hereto as EXHIBIT D-2, and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no registration of transfer shall be made until such letter is so delivered. Investor Certificates issued upon registration or transfer of, or Investor Certificates issued in exchange for, Investor Certificates bearing a legend referred to above shall also bear such legend unless Transferor, Servicer, Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar receive an Opinion of Registered Certificates Counsel, satisfactory to each of them, to the effect that such legend may be removed. Whenever an Investor Certificate containing a legend relating referred to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement above is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent transfer and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may betransfer. The Servicer Transferor hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and their respective officers, directors, agents and employees and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on relation to any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c)paragraph. The preceding sentence shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the earlier removal or resignation of the Trustee.
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (World Financial Network Credit Card Master Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “Certificate Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the ServicerServicer and the Transferor. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agencyagency of the Transferor Agent and Registrar. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or Section 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Transferor Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Transferor Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller Transferor shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Transferor Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Transferor Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”). In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Transferor Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Transferor Interest, the holder (including the Seller Transferor or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Transferor Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Transferor Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer Transferor regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer an officer of the Transferor prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer Transferor hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c). The Transferor’s obligation pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c) shall not constitute a claim against the Trust Assets and shall only constitute a claim against the Transferor to the extent the Transferor has funds sufficient to make payment on such obligations from amounts paid to it as Holder of the Transferor Interest.
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “"Transfer Agent and Registrar”), ") in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Whenever reference is made in this Agreement to the transfer or exchange of the Certificates by the Trustee, such reference shall be deemed to include the transfer or exchange on behalf of the Trustee by a Transfer Agent and Registrar. _____________ is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee _____________ may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange a stock exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee _____________ shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar registrar, which will also be a co-paying agent, in Luxembourg or another European citysuch city as the Transferor may specify. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee ____________ shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee ______________ shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee Transferor shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. If any Series with respect to which Book Entry Certificates were originally issued is no longer issued as Book-Entry Certificates, then the Servicer may appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar maintained for such purpose, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c6.3(c), and the Trustee shall (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 6.3 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) authenticate and deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 6.3 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a the period of 15 days from the Record Date preceding the due date for any payment to the Distribution Date with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and or exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the dispose of any Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and Certificates, but shall deliver a certificate of destruction not be required to the Sellerdestroy such Global Certificates. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 6.9 or 7.02 7.2 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Exchangeable Transferor Certificate or any interest thereintherein be transferred, orsold, as the case may beexchanged, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest pledged, participated or any interest therein, be transferred otherwise assigned hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller Transferor shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, Certificates and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not (i) adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) result in a “secondary market (or taxable event to the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning holders of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of othersSeries.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer an officer of the Trustee prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c6.3(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the The City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03York, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
(e) Prior to the Transfer of any portion of a Transferor Retained Class, the Trustee shall have received (i) an Officer's Certificate of the Transferor that on the date of the proposed Transfer, taking into account the certificates whose Transfer is proposed, more than 20% (by Invested Amount and by value) of the outstanding certificates issued by the Trust with respect to which no Opinion of Counsel was issued that the applicable class would be treated as debt for federal income tax purposes (including the Transferor Certificate and each Transferor Retained Class) shall be owned by the Transferor and (ii) an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such proposed Transfer will not adversely affect the Federal, Minnesota or Delaware income tax characterization of any outstanding Series of Investor Certificates or the taxability (or tax characterization) of the Trust under Federal, Minnesota or Delaware income tax laws. The Transferor shall provide to Moody's notice of any such Transfer and a copy of the Opinion of Counsel described in clause (ii) above.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Green Tree Financial Corp)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “"Transfer Agent and Registrar”"), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers Transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers Transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer Transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c)6.3, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; providedPROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 6.3 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer Transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 6.3 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer Transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer Transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer Transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer Transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except Notwithstanding any provision herein to the contrary, no sale, assignment, participation, transfer or other disposition (a "Transfer") of any Investor Certificate for which there is no Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such Investor Certificate will be treated as provided in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in debt for federal income tax purposes (such Investor Certificates referred to as "Partnership Certificates") shall be permitted, and any Supplementsuch attempted Transfer shall be void AB INITIO, if, in the sole and absolute discretion of the Transferor, such Transfer, if effected, could result in the Trust being deemed to be an association or a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that any attempted Transfer of a Partnership Certificate that would cause the number of holders of a right to receive interest or principal with respect to Partnership Certificates, including any holder of a right to receive any amount in respect of the Exchangeable Transferor Certificate (such holders of an interest in Partnership Certificates and the Exchangeable Transferor Certificate referred to as "Targeted Holders"), to exceed ninety-nine shall be void; and PROVIDED, FURTHER, that there shall not at any time be more than ninety-nine Targeted Holders or such other number as may be consented to by the Transferor which consent may be withheld in its sole and absolute discretion. Moreover, no event shall the Seller Transfer of a Partnership Certificate or an interest in the Exchangeable Transferor Certificate shall be permitted except to a Person who is either (A)(i) a citizen or resident of the United States, (ii) a corporation, partnership or other entity organized in or under the laws of the United States or any political subdivision thereof or (iii) a Person not described in (i) or (ii) whose ownership of the Partnership Certificate or interest therein, orin the Exchangeable Transferor Certificate, as the case may be, is effectively connected with such Person's conduct of a trade or business within the uncertificated United States (within the meaning of the Code) and its ownership of any interest in a Partnership Certificate or the Exchangeable Transferor Certificate, as the case may be, will not result in any withholding obligation with respect to any payments with respect to the Partnership Certificates or interest in the Seller Interest Exchangeable Transferor Certificate by any Person (other than withholding, if any, under Section 1446 under the Code) or (B)(i) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for United States federal income tax purposes or (ii) a trust if (x) a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over the administration of the trust and (y) one or more United States fiduciaries have authority to control all substantial decisions of the trust. Persons other than those described in (A)(iii) above shall provide a certification of non-foreign status signed under penalties of perjury to the Transferor and the Trustee. If any Transfer of a Partnership Certificate or an interest in the Exchangeable Transferor Certificate is made to a Person described in clause (A)(iii) above, such Person shall furnish to the Transferor and the Trustee, a properly executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form 4224 and a new Form 4224 upon the expiration or obsolescence of any previously delivered form (and such other certifications, representations or Opinions of Counsel as may be requested by the Transferor or the Trustee). Any holder of a Partnership Certificate or an interest in the Exchangeable Transferor Certificate, other than the Transferor acting pursuant to Section 6.9 hereof, which desires to effect a Transfer of such interest must covenant and deliver to the Transferor and to the Trustee the following representation prior to the effectiveness of such Transfer: "The Purchaser (x) has neither acquired, nor will it sell, trade or transfer any interest in the Trust or cause any interest in the Trust to be marketed on or through either (i) an "established securities market" within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(1), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a "secondary market" within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Trust are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Trust and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others and (y) unless the Transferor consents otherwise, such holder (i) is properly classified as, and will remain classified as, a "corporation" as described in Code section 7701(a)(3) and (ii) is not, and will not become, an S corporation as described in Code section 1361."
(c) Except as provided in Section 6.9 or 7.2 or in any Supplement (and except upon the Exchange and cancellation of an Exchangeable Transferor Certificate and the issuance of a reissued Exchangeable Transferor Certificate, on each Exchange Date), in no event shall the Exchangeable Transferor Certificate or any interest therein, therein be transferred Transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller Transferor shall have consented in writing to such transfer Transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer Transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-then existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer Transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; providedPROVIDED, howeverHOWEVER, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest Invested Amount is obtained for such transferTransfer, the Holder of the Seller Exchangeable Transferor Certificate shall be permitted to transfer Transfer the Seller Exchangeable Transferor Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such the Holder of the Exchangeable Transferor Certificate shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer Transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(cd) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer Transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer Transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transferTransfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transferTransfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer Transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c6.3(d).
(de) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.036.3, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer Transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (First Bank Corporate Card Master Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency Corporate Trust Office to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, 11.16 a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the Trustee) (the "Transfer Agent and Registrar Registrar") shall provide for the registration of the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for shall initially be the purposes of registering Trustee, and any co-transfer agent and co-registrar chosen by the Investor Certificates Depositor and transfers and exchanges of acceptable to the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global CertificateTrustee, the Trustee mayincluding, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are or Class is listed on a European stock exchange (including the Luxembourg Stock Exchange Exchange) and such exchange shall so require, a co-transfer agent and co- registrar in the Trustee city of such exchange. So long as any Investor Certificates are outstanding, the Depositor shall appoint maintain a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European cityNew York City. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. The Trustee may revoke such appointment and remove any Transfer Agent and Registrar if the Trustee determines in its sole discretion that such Transfer Agent and Registrar failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. Any Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Servicer. In the event that Depositor, the Trustee and the Servicer; provided, however, that such resignation shall no longer not be the effective and such Transfer Agent and Registrar, Registrar shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar until the Trustee shall appoint Depositor has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar reasonably acceptable to the Trustee. Upon Subject to paragraph (c) below, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose, one or more new Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the At the option of a Registered Certificateholder, Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders' Interest, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency; Registered Certificates, including Registered Certificates received in exchange for Bearer Certificates, may not be exchanged for Bearer Certificates. At the option of the Holder of a Bearer CertificateholderCertificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules)regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates (of the same Series in and Class) of authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests fractional undivided interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, Certificateholders' Interest upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, ; provided that any Bearer Certificate Certificate, so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date payment date or distribution date after the related Series Termination Date expected final payment date need not have attached the Coupons Coupon relating to such Distribution Datepayment date or distribution date (in each case, as specified in the applicable Supplement). Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Depositor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than shall deliver (in the Trusteecase of Bearer Certificates, in which case outside the Transfer Agent and Registrar shallUnited States) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Investor Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and or the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Investor Certificateholder thereof or his the attorney-in-fact thereof duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such transfer or exchange of Certificatesexchange. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer CertificatesCoupons) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange or for payment shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner customary and satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Euro-Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerDepositor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each a Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Euro-Certificates. The Seller Depositor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement Agreement, each Supplement and the Certificates.
(b) Except The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at the Transfer Agent and Registrar's expense (or at the co-transfer agent and co-registrar's expense) in each of the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, and if and so long as provided any Series or Class is listed on a European stock exchange (including the Luxembourg Stock Exchange), then in the city of such exchange, an office or agency where Investor Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (except that Bearer Certificates may not be surrendered for exchange at any such office or agency in the United States).
(c) (i) Registration of transfer of Investor Certificates containing a legend substantially to the effect set forth on Exhibit E-1 shall be effected only if such transfer (x) is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Act, or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Act, and (y) is made to a Person which is not an employee benefit plan, trust or account, including an individual retirement account, that is subject to ERISA or that is described in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received 4975(e)
(1) confirmation of the Code or an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in writing such entity (a "Benefit Plan"). In the event that registration of a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result the registration requirements under the Act, the transferor or the transferee shall deliver, at its expense, to the Depositor, the Servicer and the Transfer Agent and Registrar an investment letter from the transferee, substantially in a lowering or withdrawal the form of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificatesthe investment and ERISA representation letter attached hereto as Exhibit E-2, and (2) no registration of transfer shall be made until such letter is so delivered. Investor Certificates issued upon registration or transfer of, or Investor Certificates issued in exchange for, Investor Certificates bearing the legend referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the Depositor, the Servicer, the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar receive an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any Counsel, satisfactory to each of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; providedthem, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to legend may be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Coderemoved. In connection with any transfer of Whenever an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement referred to above is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent transfer and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may betransfer. The Servicer Depositor hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on relation to any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(cclause (i).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Asset Backed Securities Corp)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, 11.16 a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the Trustee) (the "Transfer Agent and Registrar Registrar") shall provide for the registration of the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for shall initially be Citibank, N.A. and any co-transfer agent and co-registrar chosen by Citibank, N.A. and acceptable to the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global CertificateTrustee, the Trustee mayincluding, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, a co- transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg. So long as any Investor Certificates are outstanding, the Trustee Sellers shall appoint maintain a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European cityNew York City. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. The Trustee may revoke such appointment and remove Citibank, N.A. as Transfer Agent and Registrar if the Trustee determines in its sole discretion that Citibank, N.A. failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. Citibank, N.A. shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written ' notice to the Servicer. In the event that Sellers, the Trustee and the Servicer; provided, however, that such resignation shall no longer not be the effective and Citibank, N.A. shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar, Registrar until the Trustee shall appoint has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar reasonably acceptable to the Sellers. Upon Subject to paragraph (c) below, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose, one or more new Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders' Interest shall be executed, authenticated and delivered, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees. At the option of a Registered Certificateholder, Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders' Interest, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency; Registered Certificates, including Registered Certificates received in exchange for Bearer CertificateholderCertificates, may not be exchanged for Bearer Certificates. At the option of the Holder of a Bearer Certificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules)regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates (of the same Series in and Class) of authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests fractional undivided interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such SeriesCertificateholders' Interest, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, ; provided that any Bearer Certificate Certificate, so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date payment date or distribution date after the related Series Termination Date expected final payment date need not have attached the Coupons Coupon relating to such Distribution Datepayment date or distribution date (in each case, as specified in the applicable Supplement). The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer or exchange of any Certificate for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificate. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Sellers shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than shall deliver (in the Trusteecase of Bearer Certificates, in which case outside the Transfer Agent and Registrar shallUnited States) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Investor Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and or the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Investor Certificateholder thereof or his the attorney-in-fact thereof duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such transfer or exchange of Certificatesexchange. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer CertificatesCoupons) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange or for payment shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Euro-Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerSellers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each a Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Euro-Certificates. The Seller Sellers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement Agreement, each Supplement and the Certificates.
(b) Except The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in each of the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, and, if and so long as provided any Series or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, Luxembourg, an office or agency where Investor Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (except that Bearer Certificates may not be surrendered for exchange at any such office or agency in the United States).
(c) (i) Registration of transfer of Investor Certificates containing a legend to the effect set forth on Exhibit E-1 shall be effected only if such transfer (x) is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Act, or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Act, and (y) is made to a Person which is not an employee benefit plan, trust or account, including an individual retirement account, that is subject to ERISA or that is described in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received 4975(e)
(1) confirmation of the Code or an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in writing such entity (a "Benefit Plan"). In the event that registration of a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result the registration requirements under the Act, the transferor or the transferee shall deliver, at its expense, to the Sellers, the Servicer and the Trustee, an investment letter from the transferee, substantially in a lowering or withdrawal the form of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificatesthe investment and ERISA representation letter attached hereto as Exhibit E-2, and (2) an Opinion no registration of Counsel that transfer shall be made until such letter is so delivered. Investor Certificates issued upon registration or transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date of, or Investor Certificates issued in connection with exchange for, Investor Certificates bearing the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that legend referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transferSellers, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller InterestServicer, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with and the Transfer Agent and Registrar receive an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel, satisfactory to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided furthereach of them, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to legend may be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Coderemoved. In connection with any transfer of Whenever an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement referred to above is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent transfer and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may betransfer. The Servicer Sellers hereby agrees agree to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on relation to any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(cclause (i).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Citibank South Dakota N A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the “Trustee) (the "Transfer Agent and Registrar”), ") in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, subsection 6.03(c) of the Agreement a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes purpose of registering the Investor Registered Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days' written notice to the Transferors and the Servicer; provided, however, that such resignation shall not be effective and the Trustee shall continue to perform the duties of Transfer Agent and Registrar until the Transferors have appointed a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar acceptable to the Transferors and the Trustee. If specified in the related Supplement for any form Series of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global CertificateCertificates, the Trustee mayTransferors shall appoint any co-transfer agent and co-registrar chosen by the Transferors, or and acceptable to the Trustee, including, if and so long as any Series of Investor the Registered Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange or other stock exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European citythe location required by such other stock exchange. Any If specified in such related Supplement, so long as the Registered Certificates relating to such Supplement are outstanding, the Transferors shall maintain a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in New York City or any other city designated in such Supplement and any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrarrequires otherwise. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar maintained for such purpose, the Seller Transferors shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, transferee one or more new Registered Certificates in authorized denominations of the same Series representing like aggregate Undivided InterestsInterests in the Trust; provided, however, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor any Registered Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules)regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. , Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons Coupon relating to such Distribution Date. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange of any Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates of such Series. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferors shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than shall deliver (in the Trusteecase of Bearer Certificates, in which case outside the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliverUnited States), the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact attorney duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, Except as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related any Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee or any co-transfer agent and co-registrar or co-trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and or exchange shall be canceled cancelled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the TrusteeTrustee and the Transferors. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy mutilate the Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction such cancelled and mutilated Global Certificate to the SellerTransferors. Such certificate The Trustee shall also state that forward to the Transferors a copy of each certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 6.10 of the Agreement which was received by the Trustee with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferors shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section Sections 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may beand 7.02, the uncertificated Transferors' interest in the Seller Interest Exchangeable Transferor Certificate shall not be sold, transferred, assigned, exchanged, pledged, participated or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in partotherwise conveyed, unless (A) (i) the Seller shall have consented Servicer has delivered to the Trustee an Officer's Certificate stating that such sale, transfer, assignment, exchange, pledge or conveyance will not, while any Series of Certificates remains outstanding, reduce the Transferors' retained interest in writing the Exchangeable Transferor Certificate below the Minimum Transferor Percentage for any Series then outstanding and (ii) the Trustee receives prior to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) sale, transfer, assignment, exchange, pledge, participation or conveyance written confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer transfer, assignment, exchange, pledge, participation or conveyance will not result in a lowering such Rating Agency's reducing or withdrawal of withdrawing its then-existing rating of on any then outstanding Series of Investor Certificates, and rated by it or (2B) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted assignment, exchange, pledge or conveyance is made to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest CRC and, in the Seller Interestcase of (A), as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with receives prior thereto an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (x) the contemplated transfer would conveyed interest in the Transferor Exchangeable Certificate will be treated as either debt or an interest in a financing and not as a sale partnership for federal Federal income tax purposes; provided further, purposes and that no the conveyance of such interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would will not cause the Trust to be treated characterized for Federal income tax purposes as an association taxable as a publicly traded partnership under corporation or otherwise have any material adverse impact on the Code. In connection with Federal or applicable state income taxation of any transfer outstanding Series of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller Investor Certificates or any subsequent transfereeCertificate Owner and (y) thereof shall such transfer will not sell, trade or transfer cause a taxable event for federal income tax purposes to any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of othersInvestor Certificateholder.
(c) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, Luxembourg (or subject to Section 6.03(a) of the Agreement any other city designated in such Supplement)), an office or offices or agency or agencies where Investor Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (except that Bearer Certificates may not be surrendered for exchange at any such office or agency in the United States).
(d) Unless otherwise provided in the any related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if:
(i) (a) the sale is of at least U.S $500,000 principal amount of such Certificates and (b) a letter from the purchaser satisfactory to counsel to the Servicer is executed and received; or
(ii) (a) the Registered Certificates are transferred in compliance with Rule 144 (or any amendment thereto) or Rule 144A (or any amendment thereto) under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and (b) a letter from the purchaser satisfactory to counsel to the Servicer is executed and received; or
(iii) the Registered Certificates are sold or otherwise transferred in any other transaction that does not require registration under the United States Securities Act of 1933 as amended, and, if the conditions set forth Transferor, the Servicer, the Trustee, the Transfer Agent or Registrar so request, an Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to it, in form and substance satisfactory to it, is furnished to such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a effect. Registered Certificate containing Certificates issued upon registration of transfer of, or Registered Certificates issued in exchange for, Registered Certificates bearing the legend set forth in referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the related Supplement is presented to Transferor, the Servicer, the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration receive an Opinion of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled Counsel satisfactory to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any lossthem, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any to the effect that such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series legend may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchangeremoved.
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Samples: Master Pooling and Servicing Agreement (American Express Credit Account Master Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the Trustee) (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), ) in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, 6.3(c) a register (the “Certificate Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes purpose of registering the Investor Registered Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ prior written notice to the Transferor and the Servicer; provided, however, that such resignation shall not be effective and the Trustee shall continue to perform the duties of Transfer Agent and Registrar until the Transferor has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar acceptable to the Transferor and the Trustee. If specified in the related Supplement for any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global CertificateSeries, the Trustee mayTransferor shall appoint any co-transfer agent and co-registrar chosen by the Transferor, or and acceptable to the Trustee, including, if and so long as any Series of Investor the Registered Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange or other stock exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European citythe location required by such other stock exchange. Any If specified in such related Supplement, so long as the Registered Certificates relating to such Supplement are outstanding, the Transferor shall maintain a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in New York City or any other city designated in such Supplement and any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrarrequires otherwise. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar maintained for such purpose, the Seller Transferor (or the Trustee on behalf of the Trust, if specified in the applicable Supplement) shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transfereestransferee, one or more new Registered Certificates in authorized denominations of the same Series representing like aggregate Undivided InterestsInterests in the Trust; provided, however, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificatesthereof, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholderany Holder thereof, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules)regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 6.3 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons Coupon relating to such Distribution Date. No Registered Certificates may be exchanged for a Bearer Certificate. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.3 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates of such Series. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor (or the Trustee on behalf of the Trust, if specified in the applicable Supplement) shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than shall deliver (in the Trusteecase of Bearer Certificates, in which case outside the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliverUnited States), the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, Except as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related any Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee or any co-transfer agent and co-registrar or co-trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and or exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the TrusteeTrustee and the Transferor. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy mutilate the Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver to the Transferor either a certificate of destruction or such canceled and mutilated Global Certificate. The Trustee shall also forward to the Seller. Such Transferor a copy of each certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 6.10 which was received by the Trustee with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or 7.02 6.9 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated Transferor’s interest in the Seller Interest Exchangeable Transferor Certificate and other amounts payable to the Transferor pursuant to this Agreement shall not be sold, transferred, assigned, exchanged, pledged, participated or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in partotherwise conveyed, unless (i) the Seller shall have consented in writing Servicer has delivered to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency an Officer’s Certificate stating that such transfer sale, transfer, assignment, exchange, pledge, participation or conveyance will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of not, while any Series of Investor CertificatesCertificates remains outstanding, reduce the Transferor Interest Percentage below the Minimum Transferor Interest Percentage and (2ii) an Opinion of Counsel that prior to such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; providedsale, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, assignment, exchange, pledge, participation or conveyance, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided Rating Agency Condition is satisfied and (iii) the Trustee with receives prior thereto an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (x) the contemplated transfer would conveyed interest in the Exchangeable Transferor Certificate will be treated as either debt or an interest in a financing and not as a sale partnership for federal Federal income tax purposes; provided further, purposes and that no the conveyance of such interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would will not cause the Trust to be treated characterized for Federal income tax purposes as an association taxable as a publicly traded partnership under corporation or otherwise have any material adverse impact on the Code. In connection with Federal or applicable state income taxation of any transfer outstanding Series of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller Investor Certificates or any subsequent transfereeCertificate Owner and (y) thereof shall such transfer will not sell, trade or transfer cause a taxable event for Federal income tax purposes to any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of othersInvestor Certificateholder.
(c) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, Luxembourg (or subject to Section 6.3(a) any other city designated in such Supplement)), an office or offices or agency or agencies where Investor Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (except that Bearer Certificates may not be surrendered for exchange at any such office or agency in the United States).
(d) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if:
(i) the sale is of at least U.S. $500,000 principal amount of such Certificates and (b) a letter from the purchaser satisfactory to counsel to the Servicer is executed and received; or
(ii) (a) the Registered Certificates are transferred in compliance with Rule 144 (or any amendment thereto) or Rule 144A (or any amendment thereto) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and (b) a letter from the purchaser satisfactory to counsel to the Servicer is executed and received; or
(iii) the Registered Certificates are sold or otherwise transferred in any other transaction that does not require registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and, if the conditions set forth Transferor, the Servicer, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar so request, an Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to it or them, in form and substance satisfactory to it or them, is furnished to such related Supplement are satisfiedeffect. Registered Certificates issued upon registration of transfer of, or Registered Certificates issued in exchange for, Registered Certificates bearing the legend referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the Transferor, the Servicer, the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar receive an Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to each of them, to the effect that such legend may be removed.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek written instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on and in accordance with any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(cSection 6.3(d).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Master Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Circuit City Credit Card Master Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency Corporate Trust Office to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, 11.16 a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the Trustee) (the "Transfer Agent and Registrar Registrar") shall provide for the registration of the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for shall initially be the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates Trustee, and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar chosen by the Depositor and acceptable to the Trustee, including, if and so long as any Series or Class is listed on a European stock exchange (including the Luxembourg Stock Exchange) and such exchange shall so require, a co-transfer agent and co- registrar in Luxembourg or another European citythe city of such exchange. So long as any Investor Certificates are outstanding, the Depositor shall maintain a co-transfer agent and co- registrar in New York City. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. The Trustee may revoke such appointment and remove any Transfer Agent and Registrar if the Trustee determines in its sole discretion that such Transfer Agent and Registrar failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. Any Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Servicer. In the event that Depositor, the Trustee and the Servicer; provided, however, that such resignation shall no longer not be the effective and such Transfer Agent and Registrar, Registrar shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar until the Trustee shall appoint Depositor has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar reasonably acceptable to the Trustee. Upon Subject to paragraph (c) below, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose, one or more new Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders' Interest shall be executed, authenticated and delivered, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees. At the option of a Registered Certificateholder, Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders' Interest, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency; Registered Certificates, including Registered Certificates received in exchange for Bearer CertificateholderCertificates, may not be exchanged for Bearer Certificates. At the option of the Holder of a Bearer Certificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules)regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates (of the same Series in and Class) of authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests fractional undivided interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, Certificateholders' Interest upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided ; PROVIDED that any Bearer Certificate Certificate, so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date payment date or distribution date after the related Series Termination Date expected final payment date need not have attached the Coupons Coupon relating to such Distribution Datepayment date or distribution date (in each case, as specified in the applicable Supplement). Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Depositor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than shall deliver (in the Trusteecase of Bearer Certificates, in which case outside the Transfer Agent and Registrar shallUnited States) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Investor Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and or the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Investor Certificateholder thereof or his the attorney-in-fact thereof duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such transfer or exchange of Certificatesexchange. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer CertificatesCoupons) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange or for payment shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner customary and satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Euro-Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerDepositor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each a Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Euro-Certificates. The Seller Depositor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement Agreement, each Supplement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its the Transfer Agent and Registrar's expense (or at the co-transfer agent and co-registrar's expense) in each of the Borough of Manhattan, the The City of New York York, and if and so long as any Series or Class is listed on a European stock exchange (and subject to this Section 6.03including the Luxembourg Stock Exchange), if specified then in the related Supplement for any Seriescity of such exchange, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchangeexchange (except that Bearer Certificates may not be surrendered for exchange at any such office or agency in the United States).
(c) (i) Registration of transfer of Investor Certificates containing a legend substantially to the effect set forth on Exhibit E-1 shall be effected only if such transfer (x) is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Act, or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Act, and (y) is made to a Person which is not an employee benefit plan, trust or account, including an individual retirement account, that is subject to ERISA or that is described in Section 4975(e)
(1) of the Code or an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in such entity (a "Benefit Plan"). In the event that registration of a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the registration requirements under the Act, the transferor or the transferee shall deliver, at its expense, to the Depositor, the Servicer and the Transfer Agent and Registrar an investment letter from the transferee, substantially in the form of the investment and ERISA representation letter attached hereto as Exhibit E-2, and no registration of transfer shall be made until such letter is so delivered. Investor Certificates issued upon registration or transfer of, or Investor Certificates issued in exchange for, Investor Certificates bearing the legend referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the Depositor, the Servicer, the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar receive an Opinion of Counsel, satisfactory to each of them, to the effect that such legend may be removed.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Ace Securities Corp)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, Corporate Trust Office a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the Trustee) (the "Transfer Agent and Registrar Registrar") shall provide for the registration of the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, shall initially be the Trustee mayand any co-transfer agent and co-registrar chosen by the Transferors and acceptable to the Trustee, or including, if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European cityLuxembourg. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. The Trustee Transferors may revoke such appointment and remove any Transfer Agent and Registrar if the Transferors, after consultation with the Trustee, determine in their sole discretion that such transfer Agent and Registrar failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. Any Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written ' notice to the Servicer. In the event that Transferors, the Trustee and the Servicer; provided, however, that such resignation shall no longer not be the effective and such Transfer Agent and Registrar, Registrar shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar until the Trustee shall appoint Transferors have appointed a successor Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar reasonably acceptable to the Trustee. Upon Subject to subsection 6.04(c) below, upon surrender for registration of transfer or exchange of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose, one or more new Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders' Interest shall be executed, authenticated and delivered, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees. At the option of a Registered Certificateholder, subject to subsection 6.04(c) below, Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders' Interest, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency; Registered Certificates, including Registered Certificates received in exchange for Bearer CertificateholderCertificates, may not be exchanged for Bearer Certificates. At the option of the Holder of a Bearer Certificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules)regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates (of the same Series in and Class) of authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests fractional undivided interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such SeriesCertificateholders' Interest, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, ; provided that any Bearer Certificate Certificate, so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date payment date or distribution date after the related Series Termination Date expected final payment date need not have attached the Coupons Coupon relating to such Distribution Datepayment date or distribution date (in each case, as specified in the applicable Supplement). The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Certificate for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificate. 66 Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferors shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than shall deliver (in the Trusteecase of Bearer Certificates, in which case outside the Transfer Agent and Registrar shallUnited States) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Investor Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and or the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Investor Certificateholder thereof or his the attorney-in-fact thereof duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such transfer or exchange of Certificatesexchange. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer CertificatesCoupons) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange or for payment shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Euro-Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferors. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each a Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Euro-Certificates. The Seller Transferors shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement Agreement, each Supplement and the Certificates. The interest of any Investor Certificateholder in the Trust shall not be transferable other than through the transfer of an Investor Certificate, and except as provided in this Article VI, a Certificate shall not be transferable or divisible.
(b) Except The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, and, if and so long as provided any Series or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, Luxembourg, an office or agency where Investor Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (except that Bearer Certificates may not be surrendered for exchange at any such office or agency in the United States or its territories and possessions).
(c) (i) Registration of transfer of Investor Certificates containing a legend substantially to the effect set forth on Exhibit G-1 shall be effected only if such transfer (x) is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Act, or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Act, and (y) is made to a Person which is not an employee benefit plan, trust or account, including an individual retirement account, that is subject to Title I of ERISA or that is described in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received 4975(e)
(1) confirmation of the Code or an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in writing such entity (a "Benefit Plan"). In the event that registration of a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result the registration requirements under the Act, the transferor or the transferee shall deliver, at its expense, to the Transferors, the Servicer and the Trustee, an investment letter from the transferee, substantially in a lowering or withdrawal the form of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificatesthe investment and ERISA representation letter attached hereto as Exhibit G-2, and (2) no registration of transfer shall be made until such letter is so delivered. Investor Certificates issued upon registration or transfer of, or Investor Certificates issued in exchange for, Investor Certificates bearing the legend referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the Transferor, the Servicer, the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar receive an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any Counsel, satisfactory to each of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; providedthem, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to legend may be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Coderemoved. In connection with any transfer of Whenever an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement referred to above is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer Transferors regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent transfer and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer an officer of each Transferor prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may betransfer. The Servicer Transferors hereby agrees agree to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on relation to any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(cclause (i).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (American Express Receivables Financing Corp Ii)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “"Transfer Agent and Registrar”"), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Certificate Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee First Union National Bank, is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar including, if and so long as any Series is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg, unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. The Trustee may revoke such appointment, or any subsequent appointment, and remove the Transfer Agent and Registrar if the Trustee determines in its sole discretion that the Transfer Agent and Registrar has failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. The Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days' notice to the Seller, the Servicer, the Trustee and each Purchaser Representative; provided, that such resignation shall not be effective and the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar until the Trustee has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar reasonably acceptable to the Seller. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Trustee shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Trust Interests; provided. Registered Certificates, that the provisions of this paragraph shall including Registered Certificates received in exchange for Bearer Certificates, may not apply to be exchanged for Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer CertificateholderCertificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules)regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates (of the same Series in Certificate Series) of authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such SeriesTrust Interests, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons; provided, provided that any Bearer Certificate Certificate, so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date payment date after the related Series Termination Date expected final payment date need not have attached the Coupons Coupon relating to such Distribution Datepayment date (in each case as specified in the related Supplement). At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Certificate Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Trust Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Certificate Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliverdeliver (in the case of Bearer Certificates, outside the United States), the Investor Certificates of such Certificate Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 6.3 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Certificate Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Certificate Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer CertificatesCoupons) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Euro-Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Seller. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each a Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Euro-Certificates. The Seller shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or 7.02 6.9 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Exchangeable Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, therein be transferred hereunder, in whole or in partpart to a person other than the Seller or an Affiliate of the Seller, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received a Tax Opinion.
(c) (i) Registration of transfer of Investor Certificates containing a legend substantially to the effect set forth on Exhibit H-1 shall be effected only if such transfer (x) is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act, or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act, and (y) is made to a Person which is not an employee benefit plan, trust or account, including an individual retirement account, that is an "employee benefit plan" within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA (whether or not subject to ERISA) or that is a "plan" described in Section 4975(e)
(1) confirmation of the Code or an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in entity (each, a lowering or withdrawal "Benefit Plan"), unless such Person is an insurance company purchasing the Investor Certificates with assets of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificatesgeneral account, and at the time of acquisition and throughout the period of holding (2a) it meets all of the requirements of and is eligible for exemptive relief under Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 95-60 and (B) less than 25% of the assets of such account are Benefit Plan assets. In the event that registration of a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the registration requirements under the Securities Act, the transferor or the transferee shall deliver, at its expense, to the Seller, the Servicer and the Trustee, an investment letter from the transferee, substantially in the form of the investment and ERISA representation letter attached hereto as Exhibit H-2, and no registration of transfer shall be made until such letter is so delivered. Investor Certificates issued upon registration or transfer of, or Investor Certificates issued in exchange for, Investor Certificates bearing the legend referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the Seller, the Servicer, the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar receive an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any Counsel, satisfactory to each of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; providedthem, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to legend may be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Coderemoved. In connection with any transfer of Whenever an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement referred to above is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent transfer and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may betransfer. The Servicer Seller hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without gross negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on relation to any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(cclause (i).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Charming Shoppes Master Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee Certificate Registrar shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “Certificate Register”) Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby shall initially appointed Transfer Agent and serve as Certificate Registrar for the purposes purpose of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If The Trustee as Certificate Registrar shall be subject to the same standards of care, limitations on liability and rights to indemnity as the Trustee, and the provisions of Sections 8.01, 8.02, 8.03, 8.04, 8.05, 8.14 and 8.15 shall apply to the Certificate Registrar to the same extent as they apply to the Trustee. Any Certificate Registrar appointed in accordance with this Section 5.02(a) may at any form time resign by giving at least 30 days' advance written notice of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificateresignation to the Trustee, the Trustee mayServicer and the Depositor, or if and so long as any Series such resignation to become effective upon appointment of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and RegistrarCertificate Registrar maintained for such purpose pursuant to the foregoing paragraph and, in the case of the Class R Certificate, upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth below, the Seller Trustee on behalf of the Trust shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), execute and the Trustee Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like the same aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer CertificatesPercentage Interest. At the option of an Investor Certificateholderthe Certificateholders, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like and the same aggregate Undivided Percentage Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Trustee shall execute, execute on behalf of the Trust and the Trustee Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and (unless deliver the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall (if so required by the Trustee or the Certificate Registrar) be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar duly executed by by, the Certificateholder Holder thereof or his attorney-in-fact attorney duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Seller. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Upon original issuance, the Book-Entry Certificates shall be issued in the form of one or more typewritten certificates, to be delivered to the Depository, the initial Depository, by, or on behalf of, the Depositor; or to, and deposited with the Certificate Custodian, on behalf of the Depository, if directed to do so pursuant to instructions from the Depository. Except as provided in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may beparagraph (c) below, the uncertificated interest Book-Entry Certificates shall at all times remain registered in the Seller Interest name of the Depository or any interest therein, its nominee and at all times: (i) registration of such Certificates may not be transferred hereunderby the Trustee except to another Depository; (ii) the Depository shall maintain book-entry records with respect to the Certificate Owners and with respect to ownership and transfers of such Certificates; (iii) ownership and transfers of registration of such Certificates on the books of the Depository shall be governed by applicable rules established by the Depository; (iv) the Depository may collect its usual and customary fees, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer charges and unless expenses from its Depository Participants; (v) the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal for all purposes deal with the Depository as representative of its then-existing rating the Certificate Owners of any Series the Certificates for purposes of Investor Certificatesexercising the rights of Holders under this Agreement, and requests and directions for and votes of such representative shall not be deemed to be inconsistent if they are made with respect to different Certificate Owners; (2vi) an Opinion the Trustee may rely and shall be fully protected in relying upon information furnished by the Depository with respect to its Depository Participants and furnished by the Depository Participants with respect to indirect participating firms and Persons shown on the books of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect indirect participating firms as direct or indirect Certificate Owners; and (vii) the conclusions reached in direct participants of the Depository shall have no rights under this Agreement under or with respect to any of the federal income tax opinions dated Certificates held on their behalf by the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with Depository, and the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case Depository may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and its agents, employees, officers and directors as the absolute owner of the Certificates for all purposes whatsoever. All transfers by Certificate Owners of Book-Entry Certificates shall be made in accordance with the procedures established by the Depository Participant or brokerage firm representing such Certificate Owners. Each Depository Participant shall only transfer Book-Entry Certificates of Certificate Owners that it represents or of brokerage firms for which it acts as agent in accordance with the Depository's normal procedures. The parties hereto are hereby authorized to hold each execute a Letter of them harmless against Representations with the Depository or take such other action as may be necessary or desirable to register a Book-Entry Certificate to the Depository. In the event of any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out conflict between the terms of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to Letter of Representation and this subsection 6.03(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of ManhattanAgreement, the City terms of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchangeAgreement shall control.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Asset Backed Funding Corp)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, SECTION 11.16 a register (the “Certificate Register”"CERTIFICATE REGISTER") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be Trustee) (the Transfer Agent and Registrar "TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR") shall provide for the registration of the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes shall initially be The Bank of registering the Investor Certificates New York and transfers any co-transfer agent and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificateco-registrar chosen by Transferor and acceptable to Trustee, the Trustee mayincluding, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European cityLuxembourg. So long as any Investor Certificates are outstanding, Transferor shall maintain a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in New York City. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. The Trustee may revoke such appointment and remove any Transfer Agent and Registrar if Trustee determines in its sole discretion that such Transfer Agent and Registrar failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. Any Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written ' notice to the Transferor, Trustee and Servicer. In the event ; PROVIDED that the Trustee such resignation shall no longer not be the effective and such Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Registrar shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar until Trustee shall appoint has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar reasonably acceptable to Transferor. Upon Subject to PARAGRAPH (c), upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose, one or more new Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Investor Interest shall be executed, authenticated and delivered, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees. At the option of a Registered Holder, Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Investor Interest, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency; Registered Certificates, including Registered Certificates received in exchange for Bearer CertificateholderCertificates, may not be exchanged for Bearer Certificates. At the option of the Holder of a Bearer Certificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules)regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates (of the same Series in and Class) of authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests fractional undivided interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such SeriesInvestor Interest, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided ; PROVIDED that any Bearer Certificate Certificate, so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date payment date or distribution date after the related Series Termination Date expected final payment date need not have attached the Coupons Coupon relating to such Distribution Datepayment date or distribution date (in each case, as specified in the applicable Supplement). Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than shall deliver (in the Trusteecase of Bearer Certificates, in which case outside the Transfer Agent and Registrar shallUnited States) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder Investor Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and or the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof Investor Holder or his the attorney-in-fact thereof duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such transfer or exchange of Certificatesexchange. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer CertificatesCoupons) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange or for payment shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Euro-Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign a foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 required by the applicable Supplement was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Euro-Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement Agreement, each Supplement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Seller Interest City of New York and, if and so long as any Series or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, Luxembourg, an office or agency where Investor Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (except that Bearer Certificates may not be surrendered for exchange at any interest therein, such office or agency in the United States).
(c) (i) Registration of transfer of Investor Certificates containing (x) a legend substantially to the effect set forth on EXHIBIT E-1 shall be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to effected only if such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and unless (y) a legend substantially to the Trustee effect set forth on EXHIBIT E-3 shall have received be effected only if such transfer is made to a Person that is not (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency an employee benefit plan or other plan, trust or account (including an individual retirement account) that such transfer will not result in a lowering is subject to ERISA or withdrawal Section 4975 of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and the Internal Revenue Code or (2) any collective investment fund, insurance company separate or general account or other entity (except an entity registered under the Investment Company Act) whose underlying assets include "plan assets" under ERISA by reason of a plan's investment in such entity (a "BENEFIT PLAN"). If registration of a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the registration requirements under the Securities Act, the transferor or the transferee shall deliver, at its expense, to Transferor, Servicer and Trustee, an investment letter from the transferee, substantially in the form of the investment representation letter attached hereto as EXHIBIT E-2, and no registration of transfer shall be made until such letter is so delivered. Investor Certificates issued upon registration or transfer of, or Investor Certificates issued in exchange for, Investor Certificates bearing a legend referred to above shall also bear such legend unless Transferor, Servicer, Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar receive an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any Counsel, satisfactory to each of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; providedthem, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to legend may be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Coderemoved. In connection with any transfer of Whenever an interest in the Seller Investor Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating referred to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement above is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent transfer and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may betransfer. The Servicer Transferor hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on relation to any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c)paragraph.
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Alliance Data Systems Corp)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “"Transfer Agent and Registrar”"), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-co- registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c6.3(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, however that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 6.3 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar Xxxxxxxxx is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 6.3 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the such Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 6.9 or 7.02 7.2 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Transferor Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, therein be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller Trustee shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless transfer; provided, however, that the Trustee may not withhold such consent if it shall have received (1) written confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, satisfy the Rating Agency Condition and (2) an a Tax Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of otherssuch transfer.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Dillard Asset Funding Co)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “"Transfer Agent and Registrar”"), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee Transferor shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Holder of a Bearer CertificateholderCertificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United StatesStates of America. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than from the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Exchangeable Transferor Certificate or any interest therein, therein or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Transferor Interest or any interest therein, be transferred transferred, sold, exchanged, pledged, participated or otherwise assigned hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller Transferor shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2x) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer (i) does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would (ii) will not cause the Trust to be treated as a deemed to be an association or "publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder partnership" (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(17704(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 Code) taxable as a corporation and (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (iiy) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests any such transfer, sale, exchange, pledge, participation or assignment to an entity which is not an Affiliate of the Transferor, confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates. The Transferor shall give each Rating Agency notice of any such transfer, sale, exchange, pledge, participation or assignment to an Affiliate of the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of othersTransferor.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (First Usa Credit Card Master Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the “Trustee) (the "Transfer Agent and Registrar”), ") in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, 6.3(c) a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes purpose of registering the Investor Registered Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days' prior written notice to the Transferor and the Servicer; provided, however, that such resignation shall not be effective and the Trustee shall continue to perform the duties of Transfer Agent and Registrar until the Transferor has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar acceptable to the Transferor and the Trustee. If specified in the related Supplement for any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global CertificateSeries, the Trustee mayTransferor shall appoint any co-transfer agent and co-registrar chosen by the Transferor, or and acceptable to the Trustee, including, if and so long as any Series of Investor the Registered Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange or other stock exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European citythe location required by such other stock exchange. Any If specified in such related Supplement, so long as the Registered Certificates relating to such Supplement are outstanding, the Transferor shall maintain a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in New York City or any other city designated in such Supplement and any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrarrequires otherwise. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar maintained for such purpose, the Seller Transferor (or the Trustee on behalf of the Trust, if specified in the applicable Supplement) shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transfereestransferee, one or more new Registered Certificates in authorized denominations of the same Series representing like aggregate Undivided InterestsInterests in the Trust; provided, however, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificatesthereof, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholderany Holder thereof, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules)regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 6.3 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons Coupon relating to such Distribution Date. No Registered Certificates may be exchanged for a Bearer Certificate. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.3 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates of such Series. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor (or the Trustee on behalf of the Trust, if specified in the applicable Supplement) shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than shall deliver (in the Trusteecase of Bearer Certificates, in which case outside the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliverUnited States), the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, Except as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related any Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee or any co-transfer agent and co-registrar or co-trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and or exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the TrusteeTrustee and the Transferor. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy mutilate the Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver to the Transferor either a certificate of destruction or such canceled and mutilated Global Certificate. The Trustee shall also forward to the Seller. Such Transferor a copy of each certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 6.10 which was received by the Trustee with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or 7.02 Sections 6.9 and 7.2 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated Transferor's interest in the Seller Interest Exchangeable Transferor Certificate and other amounts payable to the Transferor pursuant to this Agreement shall not be sold, transferred, assigned, exchanged, pledged, participated or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in partotherwise conveyed, unless (i) the Seller shall have consented in writing Servicer has delivered to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency an Officer's Certificate stating that such transfer sale, transfer, assignment, exchange, pledge, participation or conveyance will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of not, while any Series of Investor CertificatesCertificates remains outstanding, reduce the Transferor Interest Percentage below the Minimum Transferor Interest Percentage and (2ii) an Opinion of Counsel that prior to such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; providedsale, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, assignment, exchange, pledge, participation or conveyance, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided Rating Agency Condition is satisfied and (iii) the Trustee with receives prior thereto an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (x) the contemplated transfer would conveyed interest in the Exchangeable Transferor Certificate will be treated as either debt or an interest in a financing and not as a sale partnership for federal Federal income tax purposes; provided further, purposes and that no the conveyance of such interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would will not cause the Trust to be treated characterized for Federal income tax purposes as an association taxable as a publicly traded partnership under corporation or otherwise have any material adverse impact on the Code. In connection with Federal or applicable state income taxation of any transfer outstanding Series of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller Investor Certificates or any subsequent transfereeCertificate Owner and (y) thereof shall such transfer will not sell, trade or transfer cause a taxable event for Federal income tax purposes to any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of othersInvestor Certificateholder.
(c) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, Luxembourg (or subject to Section 6.3(a) any other city designated in such Supplement)), an office or offices or agency or agencies where Investor Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (except that Bearer Certificates may not be surrendered for exchange at any such office or agency in the United States).
(d) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if:
(i) the sale is of at least U.S. $500,000 principal amount of such Certificates and (b) a letter from the purchaser satisfactory to counsel to the Servicer is executed and received; or
(ii) (a) the Registered Certificates are transferred in compliance with Rule 144 (or any amendment thereto) or Rule 144A (or any amendment thereto) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and (b) a letter from the purchaser satisfactory to counsel to the Servicer is executed and received; or
(iii) the Registered Certificates are sold or otherwise transferred in any other transaction that does not require registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and, if the conditions set forth Transferor, the Servicer, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar so request, an Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to it or them, in form and substance satisfactory to it or them, is furnished to such related Supplement are satisfiedeffect. Registered Certificates issued upon registration of transfer of, or Registered Certificates issued in exchange for, Registered Certificates bearing the legend referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the Transferor, the Servicer, the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar receive an Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to each of them, to the effect that such legend may be removed.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek written instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on and in accordance with any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(cSection 6.3(d).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Master Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Fnanb Credit Card Master Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “"Transfer Agent and Registrar”"), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c6.3(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, however, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including 66 without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 6.3 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 6.3 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 6.9 or 7.02 7.2 or in any SupplementSupplement (and except upon the Exchange and cancellation of an Exchangeable Transferor Certificate and the issuance of a reissued Exchangeable Transferor Certificate, on each Exchange Date), in no event shall the Seller Exchangeable Transferor Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, therein be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller Transferor shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-then existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest Invested Amount is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Exchangeable Transferor Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Exchangeable Transferor Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such the Holder of the Exchangeable Transferor Certificate shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated contem- plated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c6.3(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.036.3, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (First Bank Corporate Card Master Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, 11.16 a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the Trustee) (the "Transfer Agent and Registrar Registrar") shall provide for the registration of the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges shall be, as of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If date hereof, The Bank of New York and any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificateco-transfer agent and co-registrar chosen by the Transferor and acceptable to the Trustee, the Trustee may, or including if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European cityLuxembourg. So long as any Investor Certificates are outstanding, the Transferor shall maintain a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in New York City. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. The Trustee may revoke such appointment and remove any Transfer Agent and Registrar if the Trustee determines in its sole discretion that such Transfer Agent and Registrar failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. Any Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written thirty (30) days notice to the Servicer. In the event that Transferor, the Trustee and the Servicer; provided, however, that such resignation shall no longer not be the effective and such Transfer Agent and Registrar, Registrar shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar until the Trustee shall appoint Transferor has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar reasonably acceptable to the Trustee. Upon Subject to paragraph (c) below, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose, one or more new Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders' Interest shall be executed, authenticated and delivered, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees. At the option of a Registered Certificateholder, Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders' Interest, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency; Registered Certificates, including Registered Certificates received in exchange for Bearer CertificateholderCertificates, may not be exchanged for Bearer Certificates. At the option of the Holder of a Bearer Certificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules)regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates (of the same Series in and Class) of authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests fractional undivided interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such SeriesCertificateholders' Interest, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, ; provided that any Bearer Certificate Certificate, so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date payment date or distribution date after the related Series Termination Date expected final payment date need not have attached the Coupons Coupon relating to such Distribution Datepayment date or distribution date (in each case, as specified in the applicable Supplement). Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than shall deliver (in the Trusteecase of Bearer Certificates, in which case outside the Transfer Agent and Registrar shallUnited States) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Investor Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and or the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Investor Certificateholder thereof or his the attorney-in-fact thereof duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such transfer or exchange of Certificatesexchange. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer CertificatesCoupons) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange or for payment shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Euro-Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each a Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Euro-Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement Agreement, each Supplement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall each of the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may beBorough of Manhattan, the uncertificated interest City of New York, and, if and so long as any Series or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, Luxembourg, an office or agency where Investor Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (except that Bearer Certificates may not be surrendered for exchange at any such office or agency in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, United States).
(c) (i) Registration of transfer of Investor Certificates containing a legend substantially to the effect set forth on Exhibit E-1 shall be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to effected only if such transfer and unless (x) is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing Act, or is exempt from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificatesthe registration requirements under the Act, and (2y) is made to a Person which is not an Opinion of Counsel employee benefit plan, trust or account, including an individual retirement account, that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached is subject to ERISA or that is described in any Section 4975(e)(1) of the federal income tax opinions dated Code or an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in such entity (a "Benefit Plan"). In the applicable Closing Date event that registration of a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the registration requirements under the Act, the transferor or the transferee shall deliver, at its expense, to the Transferor, the Servicer and the Transfer Agent and Registrar, an investment letter from the transferee, substantially in the form of the investment and ERISA representation letter attached hereto as Exhibit E-2, and no registration of transfer shall be made until such letter is so delivered. Investor Certificates issued upon registration or transfer of, or Investor Certificates issued in connection with exchange for, Investor Certificates bearing the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that legend referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transferTransferor, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller InterestServicer, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with and the Transfer Agent and Registrar receive an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel, satisfactory to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided furthereach of them, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to legend may be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Coderemoved. In connection with any transfer of Whenever an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement referred to above is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer Transferor regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent transfer and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer an officer of the Transferor prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may betransfer. The Servicer Transferor hereby agrees agree to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on relation to any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(cclause (i). The Transferor's obligations pursuant to this Section 6.04(c)(i) shall not constitute a claim against the Transferor to the extent the Transferor does not have funds sufficient to make payment of such obligations.
(di) The Transfer Agent Registration of transfer of Investor Certificates containing a legend to the effect set forth on Exhibit E-3 shall be effected only if such transfer is made to a Person which is not a Benefit Plan. By accepting and Registrar will maintain at its expense holding any such Investor Certificate, an Investor Certificateholder shall be deemed to have represented and warranted that it is not a Benefit Plan. By acquiring any interest in a Book-Entry Certificate which contains such legend, a Certificate Owner shall be deemed to have represented and warranted that it is not a Benefit Plan.
(ii) If so requested by the Borough of ManhattanTransferor, the City Trustee will make available to any prospective purchaser of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates who so requests, a copy of such a letter provided to Trustee by or on behalf of the Transferor relating to the transferability of any Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchangeClass to a Benefit Plan.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Capital One Master Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, 11.16 a register (the “Certificate Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the Trustee) (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar Registrar”) shall provide for the registration of the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for shall initially be Citibank and any co-transfer agent and co-registrar chosen by Citibank and acceptable to the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global CertificateTrustee, the Trustee mayincluding, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European cityLuxembourg. So long as any Investor Certificates are outstanding, the Sellers shall maintain a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in New York City. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. The Trustee may revoke such appointment and remove Citibank as Transfer Agent and Registrar if the Trustee determines in its sole discretion that Citibank failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. Citibank shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the Servicer. In the event that Sellers, the Trustee and the Servicer; provided, however, that such resignation shall no longer not be the effective and Citibank shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar, Registrar until the Trustee shall appoint has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar reasonably acceptable to the Sellers. Upon Subject to paragraph (c) below, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose, one or more new Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders’ Interest shall be executed, authenticated and delivered, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees. At the option of a Registered Certificateholder, Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders’ Interest, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency; Registered Certificates, including Registered Certificates received in exchange for Bearer CertificateholderCertificates, may not be exchanged for Bearer Certificates. At the option of the Holder of a Bearer Certificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules)regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates (of the same Series in and Class) of authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests fractional undivided interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such SeriesCertificateholders’ Interest, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, ; provided that any Bearer Certificate Certificate, so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date payment date or distribution date after the related Series Termination Date expected final payment date need not have attached the Coupons Coupon relating to such Distribution Datepayment date or distribution date (in each case, as specified in the applicable Supplement). The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer or exchange of any Certificate for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificate. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Sellers shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than shall deliver (in the Trusteecase of Bearer Certificates, in which case outside the Transfer Agent and Registrar shallUnited States) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Investor Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and or the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Investor Certificateholder thereof or his the attorney-in-fact thereof duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such transfer or exchange of Certificatesexchange. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer CertificatesCoupons) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange or for payment shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Euro-Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerSellers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each a Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Euro-Certificates. The Seller Sellers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement Agreement, each Supplement and the Certificates.
(b) Except The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in each of the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, and, if and so long as provided in Section 6.09 any Series or 7.02 Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, Luxembourg, an office or in agency where Investor Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (except that Bearer Certificates may not be surrendered for exchange at any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate such office or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest agency in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, United States).
(c) (i) Registration of transfer of Investor Certificates containing a legend to the effect set forth on Exhibit E-1 shall be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to effected only if such transfer and unless (x) is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing Act, or is exempt from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificatesthe registration requirements under the Act, and (2y) is made to a Person which is not an Opinion of Counsel employee benefit plan, trust or account, including an individual retirement account, that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached is subject to ERISA or that is described in any Section 4975(e)(1) of the federal income tax opinions dated Code or an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan’s investment in such entity (a “Benefit Plan”). In the applicable Closing Date event that registration of a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the registration requirements under the Act, the transferor or the transferee shall deliver, at its expense, to the Sellers, the Servicer and the Trustee, an investment letter from the transferee, substantially in the form of the investment and ERISA representation letter attached hereto as Exhibit E-2, and no registration of transfer shall be made until such letter is so delivered. Investor Certificates issued upon registration or transfer of, or Investor Certificates issued in connection with exchange for, Investor Certificates bearing the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that legend referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transferSellers, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller InterestServicer, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with and the Transfer Agent and Registrar receive an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel, satisfactory to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided furthereach of them, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to legend may be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Coderemoved. In connection with any transfer of Whenever an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement referred to above is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent transfer and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may betransfer. The Servicer Sellers hereby agrees agree to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on relation to any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(cclause (i).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, 11.16 a register (the “Certificate Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the Trustee) (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar Registrar”) shall provide for the registration of the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for shall initially be Citibank, N.A. and any co-transfer agent and co-registrar chosen by Citibank, N.A. and acceptable to the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global CertificateTrustee, the Trustee mayincluding, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, a co- transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg. So long as any Investor Certificates are outstanding, the Trustee Sellers shall appoint maintain a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European cityNew York City. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-co- transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. The Trustee may revoke such appointment and remove Citibank, N.A. as Transfer Agent and Registrar if the Trustee determines in its sole discretion that Citibank, N.A. failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. Citibank, N.A. shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the Servicer. In the event that Sellers, the Trustee and the Servicer; provided, however, that such resignation shall no longer not be the effective and Citibank, N.A. shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar, Registrar until the Trustee shall appoint has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar reasonably acceptable to the Sellers. Upon Subject to paragraph (c) below, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose, one or more new Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders’ Interest shall be executed, authenticated and delivered, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees. At the option of a Registered Certificateholder, Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders’ Interest, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency; Registered Certificates, including Registered Certificates received in exchange for Bearer CertificateholderCertificates, may not be exchanged for Bearer Certificates. At the option of the Holder of a Bearer Certificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules)regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates (of the same Series in and Class) of authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests fractional undivided interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such SeriesCertificateholders’ Interest, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, ; provided that any Bearer Certificate Certificate, so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date payment date or distribution date after the related Series Termination Date expected final payment date need not have attached the Coupons Coupon relating to such Distribution Datepayment date or distribution date (in each case, as specified in the applicable Supplement). The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer or exchange of any Certificate for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificate. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Sellers shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than shall deliver (in the Trusteecase of Bearer Certificates, in which case outside the Transfer Agent and Registrar shallUnited States) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Investor Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and or the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Investor Certificateholder thereof or his the attorney-in-fact thereof duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such transfer or exchange of Certificatesexchange. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer CertificatesCoupons) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange or for payment shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Euro-Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerSellers. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each a Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Euro-Certificates. The Seller Sellers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement Agreement, each Supplement and the Certificates.
(b) Except The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in each of the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, and, if and so long as provided in Section 6.09 any Series or 7.02 Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, Luxembourg, an office or in agency where Investor Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (except that Bearer Certificates may not be surrendered for exchange at any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate such office or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest agency in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, United States).
(c) (i) Registration of transfer of Investor Certificates containing a legend to the effect set forth on Exhibit E-1 shall be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to effected only if such transfer and unless (x) is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing Act, or is exempt from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificatesthe registration requirements under the Act, and (2y) is made to a Person which is not an Opinion of Counsel employee benefit plan, trust or account, including an individual retirement account, that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached is subject to ERISA or that is described in any Section 4975(e)(1) of the federal income tax opinions dated Code or an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan’s investment in such entity (a “Benefit Plan”). In the applicable Closing Date event that registration of a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the registration requirements under the Act, the transferor or the transferee shall deliver, at its expense, to the Sellers, the Servicer and the Trustee, an investment letter from the transferee, substantially in the form of the investment and ERISA representation letter attached hereto as Exhibit E-2, and no registration of transfer shall be made until such letter is so delivered. Investor Certificates issued upon registration or transfer of, or Investor Certificates issued in connection with exchange for, Investor Certificates bearing the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that legend referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transferSellers, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller InterestServicer, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with and the Transfer Agent and Registrar receive an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel, satisfactory to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided furthereach of them, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to legend may be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Coderemoved. In connection with any transfer of Whenever an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement referred to above is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent transfer and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may betransfer. The Servicer Sellers hereby agrees agree to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on relation to any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(cclause (i).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “"Transfer Agent and Registrar”), ") in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. Whenever reference is made in this Agreement to the transfer or exchange of the Certificates by the Trustee, such reference shall be deemed to include the transfer or exchange on behalf of the Trustee by a Transfer Agent and Registrar. The Trustee Bank of New York is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee The Bank of New York may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange a stock exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee The Bank of New York shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar registrar, which will also be a co-paying agent, in Luxembourg or another European citysuch city as the Transferor may specify. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-co- transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee Bank of New York shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee The Bank of New York shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee Transferor shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. If any Series with respect to which Book Entry Certificates were originally issued is no longer issued as Book-Entry Certificates, then the Servicer may appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar maintained for such purpose, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c6.3(c), and the Trustee shall (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 6.3 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) authenticate and deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 6.3 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a the period of 15 days from the Record Date preceding the due date for any payment to the Distribution Date with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and or exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the dispose of any Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and Certificates, but shall deliver a certificate of destruction not be required to the Sellerdestroy such Global Certificates. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 6.9 or 7.02 7.2 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Exchangeable Transferor Certificate or any interest thereintherein be transferred, orsold, as the case may beexchanged, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest pledged, participated or any interest therein, be transferred otherwise assigned hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller Transferor shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, Certificates and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not (i) adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) result in a “secondary market (or taxable event to the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning holders of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of othersSeries.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer an officer of the Trustee prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c6.3(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the The City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03York, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
(e) Prior to the Transfer of any portion of a Transferor Retained Class, the Trustee shall have received (i) an Officer's Certificate of the Transferor that on the date of the proposed Transfer, taking into account the certificates whose Transfer is proposed, more than 20% (by Invested Amount and by value) of the outstanding certificates issued by the Trust with respect to which no Opinion of Counsel was issued that the applicable class would be treated as debt for federal income tax purposes (including the Transferor Certificate and each Transferor Retained Class) shall be owned by the Transferor and (ii) an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such proposed Transfer will not adversely affect the Federal, Minnesota or Delaware income tax characterization of any outstanding Series of Investor Certificates or the taxability (or tax characterization) of the Trust under Federal, Minnesota or Delaware income tax laws. The Transferor shall provide to Mxxxx'x notice of any such Transfer and a copy of the Opinion of Counsel described in clause (ii) above.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Fingerhut Companies Inc)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “"Transfer Agent and Registrar”"), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee Chase Bank is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on an the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee Chase Bank shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee Chase Bank shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c6.3(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, however that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 6.3 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder Certificate holder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 6.3 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the such Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 6.9 or 7.02 7.2 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Transferor Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, therein be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller Trustee shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless transfer; provided, however, that the Trustee may not withhold such consent if it shall have received (1) written confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, satisfy the Rating Agency Condition and (2) an a Tax Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of otherssuch transfer.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set sat forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c6.3(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.036.3, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Chase Manhattan Bank Usa)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the “Trustee) (the "Transfer Agent and Registrar”), ") in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, subsection 6.03(c) of the Agreement a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee FNBC is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes purpose of registering the Investor Registered Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued FNBC shall be permitted to resign as a Global CertificateTransfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days' written notice to the Seller, the Trustee mayServicer and the Trustee; provided, or however, -------- ------- that such resignation shall not be effective and FNBC shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar until the Servicer has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar acceptable to the Seller and the Trustee. If specified in the related Supplement for any Series of Certificates, the Seller shall appoint any co-transfer agent and co-registrar chosen by the Seller, and acceptable to the Trustee, including, if and so long as any Series of Investor the Registered Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange or other stock exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co- registrar in Luxembourg or the location required by such other stock exchange. If specified in such related Supplement, so long as the Registered Certificates relating to such Supplement are outstanding, the Seller shall maintain a co- transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg New York City or another European city. Any any other city designated in such Supplement and any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrarrequires otherwise. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar maintained for such purpose, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Registered Certificates in authorized denominations of the same Series representing like aggregate Undivided InterestsInterests in the Trust; provided, however, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to -------- ------- Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor any Registered Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules)regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons Coupon relating to such Distribution Date. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates of such Series. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliverdeliver (in the case of Bearer Certificates, outside the United States), the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact attorney duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee or any co-transfer agent and co-registrar or co-trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and or exchange shall be canceled cancelled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the TrusteeTrustee and the Seller. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Seller. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 6.10 of the Agreement was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except It is the understanding of the parties to this Agreement that First USA has particular expertise in performing the functions given by this Agreement to the Servicer and that the Investor Certificateholders will be purchasing the Certificates relying on First USA's exercising such expertise in performing such functions. As provided in Sections 8.05 and 8.07 of the Agreement, the Servicer is not permitted to resign and the parties understand that the Servicer's performance of its servicing functions and the quality of the Receivables will best be ensured if First USA retains through the Exchangeable Seller's Certificate a substantial portion of the Seller Interest. Accordingly, except as provided in Section 6.09 or 7.02 any Supplement or in any SupplementSections 6.09, in no event shall 7.02 and 7.05 of the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may beAgreement, the uncertificated Seller's interest in the Seller Interest Exchangeable Seller's Certificate shall not be transferred, assigned, exchanged, pledged, participated or any interest therein, be transferred hereunderotherwise conveyed, in whole or in partpart (any of the foregoing, a "transfer"), unless (i) if such transfer is to an entity which is not an Affiliate of the Seller, such transfer, assignment, exchange, pledge or conveyance would not reduce the Seller's retained interest in the Exchangeable Seller's Certificate below the Minimum Seller shall have consented in writing Interest Percentage for any Series then outstanding and (ii) the Trustee receives prior to such transfer, assignment, exchange, pledge, participation or conveyance (A) if such transfer and unless is to an entity which is not an Affiliate of the Trustee shall have received (1) Seller, written confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer transfer, assignment, exchange, pledge, participation or conveyance will not result in a lowering the Rating Agency's reducing or withdrawal of withdrawing its then-existing rating of on any outstanding Series of Investor Certificates, rated by it and (2B) an Opinion opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate counsel which shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel independent outside counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would conveyed interest in the Seller's Exchangeable Certificate will be treated as either indebtedness or an interest in a financing and not as a sale partnership for federal Federal income tax purposes; provided further, purposes and that no the conveyance of such interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would will not cause the Trust to be treated characterized for Federal income tax purposes as an association taxable as a publicly traded partnership under corporation or otherwise have any material adverse impact on the Code. In connection with Federal or applicable state income taxation of any transfer outstanding Series of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller Investor Certificates or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of othersOwner.
(c) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York and in Chicago, Illinois (and, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, Luxembourg (or subject to Section 6.03(a) of the Agreement any other city designated in such Supplement)), an office or offices or agency or agencies where Investor Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (except that Bearer Certificates may not be surrendered for exchange at any such office or agency in the United States).
(d) Unless otherwise provided in the any related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if:
(i) (a) the sale is of at least U.S. $500,000 principal amount of such Certificates and (b) a letter from the purchaser satisfactory to counsel to the Servicer is executed and received; or
(ii) (a) the Registered Certificates are transferred in compliance with Rule 144 (or any amendment thereto) or Rule 144A (or any amendment thereto) under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and (b) a letter from the purchaser satisfactory to counsel to the Servicer is executed and received; or
(iii) the Registered Certificates are sold or otherwise transferred in any other transaction that does not require registration under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and, if the conditions set forth Seller, the Servicer, the Trustee, the Transfer Agent or Registrar so request, an Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to it, in form and substance satisfactory to it, is furnished to such related Supplement are satisfiedeffect. Registered Certificates issued upon registration of transfer of, or Registered Certificates issued in exchange for, Registered Certificates bearing the legend referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the Seller, the Servicer, the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar receive an Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to each of them, to the effect that such legend may be removed.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted emitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c)6.03(d) of the Agreement.
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (First Chicago Master Trust Ii)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), Trustee) (the "TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR") in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, 8.16 a register (the “Certificate Register”"CERTIFICATE REGISTER") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it the Trustee may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Company hereby appoints the Trustee is hereby initially appointed as the initial Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes purpose of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee mayThe Company, or if the Trustee, as agent for the Company, may revoke such appointment as Transfer Agent and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on Xxxxxxxxx and remove the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a cothen-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the acting Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include if the Trustee or the Company (as applicable) determines in its sole discretion that the then-acting Transfer Agent and Registrar has failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresmaterial respect. The Trustee then-acting Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Company, the Trustee and the Servicer. In the event ; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that such resignation shall not be effective and the Trustee shall no longer be the continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar, Registrar until the Trustee shall appoint has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar reasonably acceptable to the Company and such successor Transfer Agent and Registrar has accepted such appointment. The provisions of Sections 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.5 and 10.19 shall apply to the Trustee also in its role as Transfer Agent and Registrar for so long as the Trustee shall act as Transfer Agent and Registrar. The Company hereby agrees to provide the Trustee from time to time sufficient funds, on a timely basis and in accordance with and subject to Section 8.5, for the payment of any reasonable compensation payable to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for its services under this Section 5.3. The Company, Trustee and Transfer Agent and Registrar shall agree on such compensation in writing. The Trustee hereby agrees that, upon the receipt of such funds from the Company, it shall promptly pay the Transfer Agent and Registrar such amounts. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Investor Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar maintained for such purpose, the Seller Company shall execute, subject to and, upon the provisions written request of subsection 6.03(c)the Company, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Investor Certificates in authorized denominations of the same Series representing like aggregate Fractional Undivided Interests; provided, Interests and which bear numbers that the provisions of this paragraph shall are not apply to Bearer Certificatescontemporaneously outstanding. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Fractional Undivided Interests, bearing numbers that are not contemporaneously outstanding, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Company shall execute, and and, upon the written request of the Company, the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than from the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Investor Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer substantially in a the form satisfactory attached to the Trustee form of such Investor Certificate and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder holder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, writing delivered to the Trustee or (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different from the Trustee, in which case to the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange ) and complying with any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided requirements set forth in the related applicable Supplement, no . No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of any Investor Certificateholder that is transferring or exchanging one or more Certificates to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar cancelled and disposed of in a customary manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Seller. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Company shall execute and deliver Certificates to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates Registrar in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar to fulfill its their respective responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates. No interest of any Investor Certificateholder in the Receivables may be transferred other than by means of a transfer of an Investor Certificate.
(b) Except as provided The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York and, subject to subsection 5.3(a), if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate an office or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest offices or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole agency or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of agencies where Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided surrendered for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade registration or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of othersexchange.
(c) Unless otherwise provided stated in the any related SupplementSupplements, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such the related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing complied with. Certificates issued upon registration or transfer of, or in exchange for, Certificates bearing the legend set forth in referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the related Supplement is presented to Company, the Servicer, the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration receive an Opinion of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled Counsel satisfactory to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any lossthem, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any to the effect that such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c)legend may be removed.
(di) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain Company may not transfer, assign, exchange or otherwise pledge or convey the Series Subordinated Interest of any Series or the Exchangeable Company Interest except, with respect to the Exchangeable Company Interest, pursuant to Section 5.10.
(ii) Neither the Company nor the Servicer shall at its expense any time participate in the Borough listing of Manhattanany Targeted Investor Certificate (as defined below) on an "established securities market" within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code and any proposed, temporary or final treasury regulation thereunder as of the City date hereof, including, without limitation, an over-the-counter or interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations. "TARGETED INVESTOR CERTIFICATE" shall mean any Certificate representing a right to receive interest or principal with respect to any Class or Series of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates with respect to which an Opinion of Counsel has not been rendered that such Series may Certificates will be surrendered treated as debt for registration federal income tax purposes (it being understood that any Certificate with respect to which an Opinion of transfer Counsel has been rendered that such Certificate will be treated either as debt or exchangeas an interest in a partnership for federal income tax purposes shall be a Targeted Investor Certificate).
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”"TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR"), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “Certificate Register”"CERTIFICATE REGISTER") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless registrar. The provisions of Sections 7.04, 11.01, 11.02, 11.03 and 11.05 shall apply to the context otherwise requiresTrustee also in its role as Transfer Agent and Registrar, for so long as the Trustee shall act as Transfer Agent and Registrar. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. The Trustee may revoke such appointment, or any subsequent appointment, and remove the Transfer Agent and Registrar if the Trustee determines in its sole discretion that the Transfer Agent and Registrar has failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. The Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days' notice to the Transferor, the Servicer and the Trustee. No resignation, revocation or removal under this Section 6.03(a) shall be effective, and the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar until, the Trustee has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar reasonably acceptable to the Transferor and such successor has accepted such appointment. POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Trust Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Trust Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Seller. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.. POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT 77
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Exchangeable Transferor Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, therein be transferred hereunder, in whole or in partpart to a person other than the Transferor or an Affiliate of the Transfer- or, unless the Seller Transferor shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of othersTax Opinion.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration (i) Registration of transfer of Registered Investor Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if such transfer (x) is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the conditions set forth Securities Act, or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act, and (y) is made to a Person which is not an employee benefit plan, trust or account, including an individual retirement account, that is subject to ERISA or that is described in Section 4975(e)
(1) of the Code or an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever entity (a Registered Certificate containing "BENEFIT PLAN"). In the legend set forth event that registration of a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the registration requirements under the Securities Act, the transferor or the transferee shall deliver, at its expense, to the Transferor, the Servicer and the Trustee, an investment letter from the transferee, substantially in the related Supplement form of the investment and ERISA representation letter attached hereto as Exhibit F, and no registration of transfer shall be made until such letter is so delivered. Whenever an Investor Certificate is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent transfer and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may betransfer. The Servicer Transferor hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and its officers, directors, employees and agents and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without gross negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on relation to any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(cclause (i). This provision shall survive the discharge of this Agreement or the earlier resignation or removal of the Trustee.
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Elder Beerman Stores Corp)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, 11.16 a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable reasonable' regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which shall initially be the Trustee) (the "Transfer Agent and Registrar Registrar") shall provide for the registration of the Investor Registered Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Registered Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, shall initially be the Trustee may, or if and so any co-transfer agent and co-registrar chosen by the Seller and acceptable to the Trustee. So long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so requireoutstanding, the Trustee Seller shall appoint maintain a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European cityNew York City. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer cotransfer agent and co-registrar coregistrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. The Trustee shall be permitted Subject to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar paragraph (c) below, upon 30 days’ written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose, one or more new Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders' Interest shall be executed, authenticated and delivered, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees. At the option of a Registered Certificateholder, Registered Certificates (of the same Series and Class) may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders' Interest, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency; 56 Registered Certificates, including Registered Certificates received in exchange for Bearer CertificateholderCertificates, may not be exchanged for Bearer Certificates. At the option of the Holder of a Bearer Certificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules)regulations, Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates (of the same Series in and Class) of authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests fractional undivided interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such SeriesCertificateholders' Interest, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, ; provided that any Bearer Certificate Certificate, so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date payment date or distribution date after the related Series Termination Date expected final payment date need not have attached the Coupons Coupon relating to such Distribution Datepayment date or distribution date (in each case, as specified in the applicable Supplement). The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Certificate for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificate. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than shall deliver (in the Trusteecase of Bearer Certificates, in which case outside the Transfer Agent and Registrar shallUnited States) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Investor Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and or the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Investor Certificateholder thereof or his the attorney-in-fact thereof duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such transfer or exchange of Certificatesexchange. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer CertificatesCoupons) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange or for payment shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive Euro-Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Seller. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each a Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 6.11 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Euro-Certificates. The Seller shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in each of the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, an office or agency where Investor Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (except that Bearer Certificates may not be surrendered for exchange at any such office or agency in the United States).
(c) (i) Registration of transfer of Investor Certificates containing a legend to the effect set forth on Exhibit D-1 shall be effected only if such transfer (x) is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Act, or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Act, and (y) is made to a Person which is not an employee benefit plan, trust or account, including an individual retirement account, that is subject to ERISA or that is described in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received 4975(e)
(1) confirmation of the Code or an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in writing such entity (a "Benefit Plan"). In the event that registration of a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result the registration requirements under the Act, the transferor or the transferee shall deliver, at its expense, to the Seller, the Servicer and the Trustee, an investment letter from the transferee, substantially in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificatesthe form attached to the applicable Supplement, and (2) an Opinion no registration of Counsel that transfer shall be made until such letter is so delivered. Investor Certificates issued upon registration or transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date of, or Investor Certificates issued in connection with exchange for, Investor Certificates bearing the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that legend referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transferSeller, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller InterestServicer, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with and the Transfer Agent and Registrar receive an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel, satisfactory to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided furthereach of them, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to legend may be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Coderemoved. In connection with any transfer of Whenever an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement referred to above is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent transfer and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may betransfer. The Servicer Seller hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on relation to any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(cclause (i).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Daimlerchrysler Wholesale Receivables LLC)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “"Transfer Agent and Registrar”), ") in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. Whenever reference is made in this Agreement to the transfer or exchange of the Certificates by the Trustee, such reference shall be deemed to include the transfer or exchange on behalf of the Trustee by a Transfer Agent and Registrar. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee Transferor shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. If any Series with respect to which Book Entry Certificates were originally issued is no longer issued as Book-Entry Certificates, then the Servicer may appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar maintained for such purpose, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c6.3(c), and the Trustee shall (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) authenticate and deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 6.3 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a the period of 15 days from the Record Date preceding the due date for any payment to the Distribution Date with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and or exchange shall be canceled cancelled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Seller. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 6.9 or 7.02 7.2 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Exchangeable Transferor Certificate or any interest thereintherein be transferred, orsold, as the case may beexchanged, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest pledged, participated or any interest therein, be transferred otherwise assigned hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller Transferor shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1i) confirmation in writing from each that the Rating Agency that Condition shall have been satisfied with respect to such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2ii) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not (A) adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless Certificates or (B) result in a taxable event to the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for any such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of othersSeries.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing , including without limitation the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration delivery of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer certification or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each opinion of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c)counsel required thereunder.
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the The City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03York, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
(e) Prior to the transfer of any portion of a Transferor Retained Class, the Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such proposed transfer will not adversely affect the federal or any then Applicable Tax State income tax characterization of any outstanding Series of Investor Certificates or the taxability (or tax characterization) of the Trust under federal or any then Applicable Tax State income tax laws.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Bally Total Fitness Holding Corp)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the its corporate trust operations office in Minneapolis, Minnesota, such office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “Transfer Agent and Registrar”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the Trustee) (the "Transfer Agent and Registrar Registrar") shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for shall initially be the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates Trustee, and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European citychosen by the Trustee and acceptable to the Servicer. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requiresrequires otherwise. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' (60 days' during an Amortization Period) written notice to the Transferor and the Servicer. In the event ; provided, however, that such resignation shall not be effective and the Trustee shall no longer be the continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar, Registrar until the Trustee shall appoint Servicer has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar reasonably acceptable to the Transferor. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Investor Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and RegistrarRegistrar maintained for such purpose, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Investor Certificates (of the same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that Fractional Interests in the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer CertificatesAggregate Certificateholders' Interest. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates (of the same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided InterestsFractional Interests in the Certificateholders' Interest, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and or the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Seller. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 or 7.02 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless the Trustee shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.03, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.the
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Dell Computer Corp)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “"Transfer Agent and Registrar”"), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed the initial Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein providedRegistrar. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c6.3(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor CertificateholderHolder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Holder of a Bearer CertificateholderCertificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 6.3 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder Holder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 6.3 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 6.9 or 7.02 7.2 or in any Supplementthis subsection 6.3(b), in no event Transferor shall not transfer the Seller Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Transferor Interest or any interest therein. Transferor may from time to time transfer a portion of the Transferor Interest by causing the issuance of one or more Certificates (each a "Supplemental Certificate"), the terms of which shall be transferred hereunderdefined in a Supplement (which Supplement shall be subject to Section 13.1(a) to the extent that it amends any of the terms of this Agreement), to be delivered to or upon the order of Transferor (or the Holder of a Supplemental Certificate, in whole the case of the transfer or exchange thereof, as provided below), upon satisfaction of the following conditions:
(i) the Transferor Interest shall not be less than the Minimum Transferor Interest, in parteach case as of the date of, unless and after giving effect to, such exchange;
(ii) the Seller Rating Agency Condition shall have consented in writing been satisfied with respect to such exchange (or transfer and unless the Trustee or exchange as provided below); and
(iii) Transferor shall have received (1) confirmation in writing from delivered to Trustee and each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor CertificatesTax Opinion, and (2) an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection date of such exchange (or transfer or exchange as provided below), with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller respect thereto. Any Supplemental Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) exchanged only upon satisfaction of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or conditions set forth in clauses (ii) a “secondary market and (or the substantial equivalent thereofiii)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of others.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from Servicer (or Transferor, if the Back-up Servicer is Servicer) regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Agent, Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer (or an officer of Transferor, if the Back-up Servicer is Servicer) prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to (or Transferor, if Back- up Servicer is Servicer) shall indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c6.3(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense (or Transferor, if Back- up Servicer is Servicer) in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.036.3, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an any agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Mellon Bank Premium Finance Loan Master Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and registrar (the “"Transfer Agent and ------------------ Registrar”"), in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register (the “"Certificate Register”") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it -------------------- may prescribe, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall provide for the registration of the Investor Certificates of each Series (unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement) and of transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee Chemical Bank is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Registrar for the purposes of registering the Investor Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Investor Certificates as herein provided. If any form of Investor Certificate is issued as a Global Certificate, the Trustee may, or if and so long as any Series of Investor Certificates are listed on an the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange shall so require, the Trustee shall appoint a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in Luxembourg or another European city. Any reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include any co-transfer agent and co-co- registrar unless the context otherwise requires. The Trustee Chemical Bank shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon 30 days’ ' written notice to the Servicer. In the event that the Trustee Chemical Bank shall no longer be the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Trustee shall appoint a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar, the Seller Transferor shall execute, subject to the provisions of subsection 6.03(c6.3(c), and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests; provided, however that the provisions of this -------- ------- paragraph shall not apply to Bearer Certificates. At the option of an Investor Certificateholder, Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. At the option of any Holder of Registered Certificates, Registered Certificates may be exchanged for other Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, upon surrender of the Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose. At the option of a Bearer Certificateholder, subject to applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation, the Bearer Rules), Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered Certificates of the same Series in authorized denominations of like aggregate Undivided Interests in the Trust, in the manner specified in the Supplement for such Series, upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section 6.03 6.3 shall have attached thereto (or be accompanied by) all unmatured Coupons, provided that any Bearer Certificate so surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the relevant Distribution Date after the related Series Termination Date need not have attached the Coupons coupons relating to such Distribution Date. Whenever any Investor Certificates of any Series are so surrendered for exchange, the Seller Transferor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and (unless the Transfer Agent and Registrar is different than the Trustee, in which case the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall) deliver, the Investor Certificates of such Series which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder Certificate holder thereof or his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. The preceding provisions of this Section 6.03 6.3 notwithstanding, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as the case may be, shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Investor Certificate of any Series for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Investor Certificates of such Series. Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, no service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons attached to Bearer Certificates) surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled by the Transfer Agent and Registrar and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy the any Global Certificates upon its exchange in full for Definitive Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the SellerTransferor. Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of each Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received with respect to each portion of the such Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive Certificates. The Seller Transferor shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, as applicable, Bearer Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this Agreement and the Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.09 6.9 or 7.02 7.2 or in any Supplement, in no event shall the Seller Transferor Certificate or any interest therein, or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest or any interest therein, therein be transferred hereunder, in whole or in part, unless the Seller Trustee shall have consented in writing to such transfer and unless transfer; provided, however, that the Trustee may not withhold -------- ------- such consent if it shall have received (1) written confirmation in writing from each Rating Agency that such transfer will not result in a lowering or withdrawal of its then-existing rating of any Series of Investor Certificates, satisfy the Rating Agency Condition and (2) an a Tax Opinion of Counsel that such transfer does not adversely affect the conclusions reached in any of the federal income tax opinions dated the applicable Closing Date issued in connection with the original issuance of any Series of Investor Certificates; provided, however, that unless the consent of Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the Aggregate Investor Interest is obtained for such transfer, the Holder of the Seller Certificate shall be permitted to transfer the Seller Certificate or the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, as the case may be, only if such Holder shall have provided the Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the contemplated transfer would be treated as a financing and not as a sale for federal income tax purposes; provided further, that no interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest may be transferred unless its initial offering price would be at least $20,000 and it cannot be subdivided for resale into units smaller than a unit the initial offering price of which would have been at least $20,000, absent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer would not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under the Code. In connection with any transfer of an interest in the Seller Certificate or, as the case may be, the uncertificated interest in the Seller Interest, the holder (including the Seller or any subsequent transferee) thereof shall not sell, trade or transfer any interest therein or cause any interest therein to be marketed on or through either (i) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), including without limitation an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations by identified brokers or dealers by electronic means or otherwise or (ii) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Code section 7704(b)(2), including a market wherein interests in the Seller Certificate are regularly quoted by any person making a market in such interests and a market wherein any person regularly makes available bid or offer quotes with respect to interests in the Seller Certificate and stands ready to effect buy or sell transactions at the quoted prices for itself or on behalf of otherssuch transfer.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in the related Supplement, registration of transfer of Registered Certificates containing a legend relating to the restrictions on transfer of such Registered Certificates (which legend shall be set forth in the Supplement relating to such Investor Certificates) shall be effected only if the conditions set forth in such related Supplement are satisfied.
Whenever a Registered Certificate containing the legend set sat forth in the related Supplement is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from the Servicer regarding such transfer. The Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive written instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to registering any such transfer or authenticating new Registered Certificates, as the case may be. The Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify the Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any such written instructions furnished pursuant to this subsection 6.03(c6.3(c).
(d) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York (and subject to this Section 6.036.3, if specified in the related Supplement for any Series, any other city designated in such Supplement) an office or offices or an agency or agencies where Investor Certificates of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Chase Manhattan Bank Usa)