Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Office, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement. (b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates. (c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuer. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received: (1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that: (i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction; (ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws; (iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) (iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding); (v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law; (vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates; (vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code; (viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code; (ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation; (x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09; (xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code; (xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph)); (xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph)); (xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and (xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) (2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and (3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements. (d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Nissan Auto Receivables 2018-C Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Nissan Auto Receivables 2018-C Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association [The Owner Trustee] [ ] shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which having an office or agency located in the [Borough of Manhattan], The City of New York, and that shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it it, and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the CertificateholdersTrustee, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause o as its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.08. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) received a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to the Owner Trustee (or interest therein) in the event such Certificate is a Definitive Certificate, such requirement will be satisfied only by the Owner Trustee's receipt of a representation letter from the transferee substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a NoteC) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (Section 406 of ERISA or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of a plan subject to Section 7704 4975 of the Code or would make (a "Plan"), nor a person acting on behalf of a Plan nor using the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 assets of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is nota Plan to effect such transfer, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is not an insurance company purchasing a Certificate with funds contained in an "insurance company general account" (as defined in Section V(e) of Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 95-60 ("PTCE 95-60")) as to which there is a Plan with respect to which the amount of such an entity, but general account's reserves and liabilities for the contracts held by or on behalf of such Plan and all other Plans maintained by the same employer (xor affiliate thereof as defined in Section V(a)(1) none of PTCE 95-60) of by the same employee organization exceed 10% of the direct total of all reserves and liabilities of such general account (as such amounts are determined under Section I(a) of PTCE 95-60) at the date of acquisition; or
(ii) is a Plan or indirect beneficial owners is an insurance company purchasing a Certificate with funds contained in an insurance company general account, having attached thereto an opinion of any counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, which opinion shall not be an expense of either the Owner Trustee or the Trust, addressed to the Owner Trustee, to the effect that the purchase or holding of such Certificate will not result in the assets of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior Owner Trust Estate being deemed to be "plan assets" and subject to the time prohibited transaction provisions of such proposed transfer) of ERISA and the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not Code and will not be a principal purpose subject the Owner Trustee to any obligation in addition to those expressly undertaken in this Agreement or to any liability. For purposes of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest preceding sentence, with respect to a Certificate that is a Book-Entry Certificate, in any Certificates the event the Transferee Certificate is not furnished, the representations contained in clause (i) above shall be deemed to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide have been made to the Owner Trustee and by the Depositor information as to the number transferee's (including an initial acquiror's) acceptance of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities ActCertificate. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, to or on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other an employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law ERISA or to the Code or to an insurance company purchasing with funds from a general account not exempt pursuant to PTCE 95-60 without the delivery to the Owner Trustee of an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee as described in clause (ii) above shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is in fact not permitted by this Section 3.03(c3.04(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder Holder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.]
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Toyota Motor Credit Corp), Trust Agreement (Toyota Motor Credit Corp)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Wilmington Trust, National Association shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank Wilmington Trust, National Association shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the CertificateholdersTrustee, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit CB to the effect that:
(ii) such transferee is not a Non-U.S. Person; and
(3iii) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate transferee is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.Plan;
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Nissan Auto Receivables 2012-B Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Nissan Auto Receivables 2012-B Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall keep or cause to be kept, at its the Corporate Trust Office, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect subject to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicerrestrictions provided herein. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07Office, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate authenticate, and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option Trustee, provided, however, that registration of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender transfer of the Certificates to may not be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, effected unless (A) the Owner Trustee receives an Opinion of Counsel, satisfactory to it, to the effect that (i) such transfer may be made in reliance upon an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and (ii) such transfer will not adversely affect the tax treatment of the Trust or the Notes; (B) the Insurer has consented to such transfer and (C) the Rating Agency Condition shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment have been satisfied with respect to the Certificates.
(c) such transfer. Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or and exchange shall be cancelled canceled and subsequently disposed of destroyed by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practiceOwner Trustee. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Samples: Trust and Servicing Agreement (Bay View Securitization Corp), Trust and Servicing Agreement (Uacsc Auto Trusts)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Wilmington Trust, National Association shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank Wilmington Trust, National Association shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the CertificateholdersTrustee, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)and
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(vii) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar LawPlan;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, to or on behalf of, of a Benefit Plan or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is in fact not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Nissan Auto Receivables 2012-a Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Nissan Auto Receivables 2012-a Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Office, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BENX-0XXX, W-8 ECI X-0XXX-X, X-0XXX or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuer. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.such
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Nissan Auto Receivables 2020-a Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Nissan Auto Receivables 2020-a Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association ______________________ shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause ___________________ as its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like class and aggregate face amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied writing, with such signature guaranteed by IRS Form W-8 BENa member firm of the New York Stock Exchange, W-8 ECI a commercial bank or W-9, as applicable, and trust company or an "eligible guarantor institution" with membership or participation in STAMP or such other documentation "signature guarantee program" as may be required determined by the Owner Trustee Certificate Registrar in order to comply with applicable lawaddition to, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001or substitution for, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26STAMP, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation all in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the IssuerExchange Act. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee or Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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. The preceding provisions of this Section 3.4 notwithstanding, Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar need not register any transfer or exchange of Certificates for a period of fifteen (15) days preceding any Distribution Date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Volkswagen Public Auto Loan Securitization LLC), Trust Agreement (M&i Dealer Auto Securitization LLC)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.05, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association Union Bank, N.A. shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer Depositor or its designee shall appoint another bank or trust companycompany to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement, which shall entity will agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it as successor Certificate Registrar, and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this AgreementTrustee.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.05, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.05. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, (i) the Owner Trustee shall not make make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register register, transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the CertificatesCertificates and (ii) the Owner Trustee shall permit the registration, transfer and exchange of Certificates only in minimum denominations of a Percentage Interest of 5.00% and integral multiples of 5.00% in excess thereof.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)and
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(vii) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar LawPlan;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel to the Owner Trustee that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, to a Non-U.S. Person or to or on behalf of, of a Benefit Plan or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is in fact not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Toyota Auto Receivables 2011-a Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Toyota Auto Receivables 2011-a Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association The Owner Trustee shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which having an office or agency located in the Chicago, Illinois or The City of New York, and that shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it it, and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the CertificateholdersTrustee, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to the Owner Trustee substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have is not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdictiona Non-U.S. Person;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (Section 406 of ERISA or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of a plan subject to Section 7704 4975 of the Code or would make (a "Plan"), nor a person acting on behalf of a Plan nor using the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 assets of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is nota Plan to effect such transfer, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is not an insurance company purchasing a Certificate with funds contained in an "insurance company general account" (as defined in Section V(e) of Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 95-60 ("PTCE 95-60")) as to which there is a Plan with respect to which the amount of such an entity, but general account's reserves and liabilities for the contracts held by or on behalf of such Plan and all other Plans maintained by the same employer (xor affiliate thereof as defined in Section V(a)(1) none of PTCE 95-60) or by the same employee organization exceed 10% of the direct total of all reserves and liabilities of such general account (as such amounts are determined under Section I(a) of PTCE 95-60) at the date of acquisition; or
(iii) is a Plan or indirect beneficial owners is an insurance company purchasing a Certificate with funds contained in an insurance company general account, having attached thereto an opinion of any counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, which opinion shall not be an expense of either the Owner Trustee or the Trust, addressed to the Owner Trustee, to the effect that the purchase or holding of such Certificate will not result in the assets of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior Owner Trust Estate being deemed to be "plan assets" and subject to the time prohibited transaction provisions of such proposed transfer) of ERISA and the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not Code and will not be subject the Owner Trustee to any obligation in addition to those expressly undertaken in this Agreement or to any liability. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a principal purpose Certificate to or on behalf of an employee benefit plan subject to ERISA or to the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates Code or to permit any partnership an insurance company purchasing with funds from a general account not exempt pursuant to satisfy PTCE 95-60 without the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide delivery to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number an opinion of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)clause (iii) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) above shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation void and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph))no effect;
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to the Owner Trustee substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel to the Owner Trustee that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act of 1933 or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is in fact not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Toyota Motor Credit Receivables Corp), Trust Agreement (Toyota Motor Credit Receivables Corp)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The A registrar (the “Certificate Registrar Registrar”) shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.12, a register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Deutsche Bank National Association Trust Company Americas shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for Upon any reason become unable to act as resignation of any Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall, upon receipt of written instructions from the Depositor, promptly appoint a successor thereto.
(b) No transfer, sale, pledge or other disposition of any Certificate Registrar or interest therein shall promptly give written notice be made unless that transfer, sale, pledge or other disposition (i) complies with the requirements and restrictions set forth in the related Certificate Purchase Agreement (except that for the initial transfer of the Certificates to the Depositor, the requirements for transfer shall be deemed to have been met by the Depositor) and (ii) is exempt from the registration and/or qualification requirements of the Securities Act and any applicable State securities laws, or is otherwise made in accordance with the Securities Act and such State securities laws. Any Certificateholder desiring to effect to a transfer of Certificates or interest therein shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, each of the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, Certificate Registrar against any liability that may result if the Servicer shall appoint another bank transfer is not so exempt or trust company, which shall agree to act is not made in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it Securities Act and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreementsuch State laws.
(bc) Upon Subject to Section 3.09, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.12, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate be authenticated and deliverdelivered), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount Percentage Interest dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a HolderCertificateholder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount Percentage Interest upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates3.12.
(cd) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(de) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
(f) The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Certificates for a period of fifteen (15) days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(g) Each purchaser (including any transferee) of a Certificate must satisfy the transfer restrictions as set forth herein and in the applicable transfer certificate attached to the Certificate Purchase Agreement. Each purchaser (including any transferee) of a Certificate shall be deemed by its acceptance of an ownership interest in a Certificate to have made the representations and warranties set forth under “Notice to Investors” in the Private Placement Memorandum.
(h) The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the transfer of the Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (California Republic Auto Receivables Trust 2015-2), Trust Agreement (California Republic Funding LLC)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Office, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BENW-8BEN, W-8 ECI W-8BEN-E, W-8ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners 6 (NAROT 2020-B Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuer. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement);
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);; 7 (NAROT 2020-B Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code (and any corresponding provision of state law) and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code (and any corresponding provision of state law) and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the CodeCode (or any corresponding provision of state law), hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;Code (and any corresponding provision of state law); 8 (NAROT 2020-B Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement).
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; andand 9 (NAROT 2020-B Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Nissan Auto Receivables Corp Ii), Trust Agreement (Nissan Auto Receivables Corp Ii)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Wilmington Trust Company shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association Wilmington Trust Company shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the CertificateholdersTrustee, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)and
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(vii) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar LawPlan;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel to the Owner Trustee that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, to or on behalf of, of a Benefit Plan or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is in fact not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Nissan Auto Receivables 2011-a Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Nissan Auto Receivables 2011-a Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar Registrar, as an agent of the Trust, shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Wilmington Trust, National Association shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank Wilmington Trust, National Association shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the CertificateholdersTrustee, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person Person within the meaning of 6 (Nissan 2013-B Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (iB)(i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement);
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar LawPlan;
(viv) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer Trust would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(viivi) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer Trust ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viiivii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more Certificates (or such other percentage as interests therein) are not acquired by or for the Depositor may establish prior to the time account of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704Special Pass-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the CodeThrough Entity;
(ixviii) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer Trust would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(xix) such transferee understands understand that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance$740,000; and
(xvxi) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer Trust to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement).
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. 7 (Nissan 2013-B Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, to or on behalf of, of a Benefit Plan or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) . No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Nissan Auto Receivables 2013-B Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Nissan Auto Receivables 2013-B Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar Registrar, as an agent of the Trust, shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Wilmington Trust, National Association shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank Wilmington Trust, National Association shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the CertificateholdersTrustee, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person Person within the meaning of 6 (Nissan 2014-A Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (iB)(i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement);
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar LawPlan;
(viv) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer Trust would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(viivi) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer Trust ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viiivii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more Certificates (or such other percentage as interests therein) are not acquired by or for the Depositor may establish prior to the time account of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704Special Pass-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the CodeThrough Entity;
(ixviii) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer Trust would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(xix) such transferee understands understand that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance$520,000; and
(xvxi) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer Trust to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement).
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. 7 (Nissan 2014-A Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, to or on behalf of, of a Benefit Plan or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) . No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Nissan Auto Receivables 2014-a Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Nissan Auto Receivables 2014-a Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.05, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association Xxxxx Fargo Delaware Trust Company, N.A. shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer Depositor or its designee shall appoint another bank or trust companycompany to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement, which shall entity will agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it as successor Certificate Registrar, and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this AgreementTrustee.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.05, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.05. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, (i) the Owner Trustee shall not make make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register register, transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the CertificatesCertificates and (ii) the Owner Trustee shall permit the registration, transfer and exchange of Certificates only in minimum denominations of a Percentage Interest of 5.00% and integral multiples of 5.00% in excess thereof.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)and
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(vii) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar LawPlan;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel to the Owner Trustee that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, to a Non-U.S. Person or to or on behalf of, of a Benefit Plan or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is in fact not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Toyota Auto Receivables 2010-B Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Toyota Auto Receivables 2010-B Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Wilmington Trust, National Association shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank Wilmington Trust, National Association shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the CertificateholdersTrustee, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)and
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(vii) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar LawPlan;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Nissan Auto Receivables 2013-a Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Nissan Auto Receivables 2013-a Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association Bankers Trust Company shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the The Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable provide the Trust Collateral Agent with a list of the names and addresses of the Certificateholders on the Closing Date in the form which such information is provided to act as the Certificate Registrar. Upon any transfers of Certificates, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to notify the DepositorTrust Collateral Agent of the name and address of the transferee in writing, by facsimile, on the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt day of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) transfer. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause Bankers Trust Company as its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like class and aggregate face amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied writing, with such signature guaranteed by IRS Form W-8 BENan "eligible guarantor institution" meeting the requirements of the Certificate Registrar, W-8 ECI which requirements include membership or W-9, as applicable, and participation in the Securities Transfer Agent's Medallion Program ("STAMP") or such other documentation "signature guarantee program" as may be required determined by the Owner Trustee Certificate Registrar in order to comply with applicable lawaddition to, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001or in substitution for, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26STAMP, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation all in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the IssuerExchange Act. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Americredit Financial Services Inc), Trust Agreement (Americredit Financial Services Inc)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Wilmington Trust, National Association shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank Wilmington Trust, National Association shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the CertificateholdersTrustee, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)and
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(vii) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar LawPlan;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel to the Owner Trustee that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, to or on behalf of, of a Benefit Plan or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is in fact not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Nissan Auto Receivables 2011-B Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Nissan Auto Receivables 2011-B Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Office, maintain a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association shall be the initial The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Certificate Registrar. In the event that, subsequent to the Closing Date, the Trustee notifies the Servicer that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become it is unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree having an office or agency located in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, agreeing to act in accordance with the provisions of this the Agreement applicable to it it, and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the CertificateholdersTrustee, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this the Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.0716.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates of the same Class, in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agentTrustee. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations and of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the such office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificatesagency.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or and exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirementsTrustee.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Samples: Standard Terms and Conditions Agreement (Fleetwood Credit Receivables Corp), Standard Terms and Conditions Agreement (Fleetwood Credit Receivables Corp)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar Registrar, as an agent of the Trust, shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Wilmington Trust, National Association shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank Wilmington Trust, National Association shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the CertificateholdersTrustee, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (iB)(i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
; 6 (iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a NonNissan 2014-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C B Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iviii) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained is not a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding)Non-U.S. Person;
(viv) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(viv) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer Trust would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(viivi) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer Trust ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viiivii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more Certificates (or such other percentage as interests therein) are not acquired by or for the Depositor may establish prior to the time account of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704Special Pass-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the CodeThrough Entity;
(ixviii) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer Trust would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(xix) such transferee understands understand that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance$800,000.00; and
(xvxi) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer Trust to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement).
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. 7 (Nissan 2014-B Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) . No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Nissan Auto Receivables 2014-B Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Nissan Auto Receivables 2014-B Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.05, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association Wxxxx Fargo Delaware Trust Company, N.A. shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer Depositor or its designee shall appoint another bank or trust companycompany to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement, which shall entity will agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it as successor Certificate Registrar, and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this AgreementTrustee.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.05, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.05. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, (i) the Owner Trustee shall not make make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register register, transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the CertificatesCertificates and (ii) the Owner Trustee shall permit the registration, transfer and exchange of Certificates only in minimum denominations of a Percentage Interest of 5.00% and integral multiples of 5.00% in excess thereof.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)and
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(vii) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar LawPlan;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel to the Owner Trustee that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, to a Non-U.S. Person or to or on behalf of, of a Benefit Plan or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is in fact not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Toyota Auto Receivables 2010-C Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Toyota Auto Receivables 2010-C Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association Wilmington Trust Company shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the No Certificate Registrar shall for may be sold, transferred, assigned, participated, pledged, or otherwise disposed of to any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act Person except in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it Section 3.11 and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee any attempted transfer in violation of Section 3.11 shall be null and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreementvoid.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8, and upon compliance with the provisions of this Agreement relating to such transfer, Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount class and Certificate Balance dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a HolderCertificateholder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates3.8.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied writing, with such signature guaranteed by IRS Form W-8 BENa member firm of the New York Stock Exchange, W-8 ECI a commercial bank or W-9, as applicable, and trust company or an “eligible guarantor institution” with membership or participation in STAMP or such other documentation “signature guarantee program” as may be required determined by the Owner Trustee Certificate Registrar in order to comply with applicable lawaddition to, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001or substitution for, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26STAMP, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation all in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the IssuerExchange Act. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee or Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
(e) The preceding provisions of this Section 3.4 notwithstanding, Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar need not register any transfer or exchange of Certificates for a period of fifteen (15) days preceding any Payment Date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Ace Sec Corp Wells Fargo Financial Auto Owner Trust 2004-A), Trust Agreement (Wells Fargo Financial Auto Owner Trust 2005-A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The A registrar (the “Certificate Registrar Registrar”) shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.12, a register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Deutsche Bank National Association Trust Company Americas shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for Upon any reason become unable to act as resignation of any Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall, upon receipt of written instructions from the Depositor, promptly appoint a successor thereto.
(b) No transfer, sale, pledge or other disposition of any Certificate Registrar or interest therein shall promptly give written notice be made unless that transfer, sale, pledge or other disposition (i) complies with the requirements and restrictions set forth in the related Certificate Purchase Agreement (except that for the initial transfer of the Certificates to the Depositor, the requirements for transfer shall be deemed to have been met by the Depositor) and (ii) is exempt from the registration and/or qualification requirements of the Securities Act, and any applicable State securities laws, or is otherwise made in accordance with the Securities Act and such State securities laws. Any Certificateholder desiring to effect to a transfer of Certificates or interest therein shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, each of the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, Certificate Registrar against any liability that may result if the Servicer shall appoint another bank transfer is not so exempt or trust company, which shall agree to act is not made in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it Securities Act and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreementsuch State laws.
(bc) Upon Subject to Section 3.9, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.12, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate be authenticated and deliverdelivered), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount Percentage Interest dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a HolderCertificateholder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount Percentage Interest upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates3.12.
(cd) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(de) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
(f) The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Certificates for a period of fifteen (15) days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(g) Each purchaser (including any transferee) of a Certificate must satisfy the transfer restrictions as set forth herein and in the applicable transfer certificate attached to the Certificate Purchase Agreement. Each purchaser (including any transferee) of a Certificate shall be deemed by its acceptance of an ownership interest in a Certificate to have made the representations and warranties set forth under “Notice to Investors” in the Private Placement Memorandum.
(h) The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the transfer of the Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (California Republic Funding LLC), Trust Agreement (California Republic Funding LLC)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep maintain, or cause to be keptmaintained, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein providedprovided in this Agreement. U.S. Bank National Association shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the The Owner Trustee is hereby initially appointed Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act the purpose of registering Certificates and transfers and exchanges of Certificates as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act provided in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8, and compliance with subsection (c), the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent the Authentication Agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount Certificates, dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates3.8.
(c1) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuer. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made by CFVSC or any other Person unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Act"), as amended, and other any applicable state securities laws or “Blue Sky” is made in accordance with the Act and laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in . In the event of that any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Personsmade, (A) it the Depositor may require a written Opinion of Counsel acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to the Depositor that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption, describing the applicable exemption and the basis therefor, from the Act and laws or is being made pursuant to the Act and laws, which Opinion of Counsel shall provide to not be an expense of the Owner Trustee and or the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons Depositor, and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held Owner Trustee shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as transferee to execute an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate investment letter substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) C attached hereto, which investment letter shall not be an Opinion expense of Counsel the Owner Trustee or the Depositor. Any Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Owner Trustee, the Depositor and the Certificate Registrar against any liability that may result if the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act not so exempt or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Actnot made in accordance with such federal and state laws. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary hereinIn addition, any purported no transfer of a Certificate toshall be made by CFVSC or any other person to an Affiliate of the Originator without (i) the written Opinion of Counsel acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to the Depositor that in the event the Originator became a debtor under the United States Bankruptcy Code, on behalf of, or utilizing a court exercising reasonable judgment under then existing statutes and precedents would not order that the assets of a Benefit Plan such Affiliate be consolidated with those of the Originator, which opinion shall not be an expense of the Owner Trustee or the Depositor, and (ii) written notification from each Rating Agency to the effect that such transfer will not cause such Rating Agency to downgrade its then-current ratings, if any, of any of the Notes below the lower of the then-current rating or the rating assigned to such Notes as of the Closing Date by such Rating Agency.
(2) Any transfer, sale or other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject disposition not in compliance with the provisions of this Section 3.4(c) shall be deemed to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To legal force or effect whatsoever and such transferee shall be deemed to not be the extent permitted under applicable law (Certificateholder for any purpose hereunder, including, but not limited to, ERISA)the receipt of distributions on such Certificate, neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar and shall be under any liability deemed to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on have no interest whatsoever in such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirementsCertificate.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
(e) The Certificates may not be acquired by or for the account of (i) a pension, profit sharing or other employee benefit plan, or an individual retirement account or Xxxxx plan, subject to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (a "Benefit Plan"), or (ii) any entity whose underlying assets include "plan assets" (within the meaning of Department of Labor ("DOL") Regulation Section 2510.3-101, 29 C.F.R. (S) 2510.3-101 or otherwise under ERISA) by reason of a Benefit Plan's investment in the entity, including, without limitation, an insurance company acting on behalf of its general account.
(f) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar shall not be responsible for ascertaining whether any transfer complies with the registration provisions or exemptions from the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or applicable state securities law or the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended; provided, however, that if a certificate is -------- ------- specifically required to be delivered to the Owner Trustee by a purchaser or transferee of a Certificate, the Owner Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether it conforms to the requirements of this Agreement and shall promptly notify the party delivering the same if such certificate does not so conform.
(g) Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this Section, the Owner Trustee shall not be required to make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not be required to register, transfers or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association Bankers Trust (Delaware) shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In Registrar (the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as "Certificate Registrar"). No certificate may be sold, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice transferred, assigned, participated, pledged, or otherwise disposed of to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act any Person except in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it Section 3.11 and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee any attempted transfer in violation of Section 3.11 shall be null and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreementvoid.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8, and upon compliance with the provisions of this Agreement relating to such transfer, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount class and Certificate Percentage Interest dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a HolderCertificateholder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates3.8.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied writing, with such signature guaranteed by IRS Form W-8 BENa member firm of the New York Stock Exchange, W-8 ECI a commercial bank or W-9, as applicable, and trust company or an "eligible guarantor institution" with membership or participation in STAMP or such other documentation "signature guarantee program" as may be required determined by the Owner Trustee Certificate Registrar in order to comply with applicable lawaddition to, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001or substitution for, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26STAMP, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation all in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the IssuerExchange Act. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
(e) The preceding provisions of this Section 3.4 notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar need not register any transfer or exchange of Certificates for a period of fifteen (15) days preceding any Payment Date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Wilmington Trust Company shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association Wilmington Trust Company shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which (Nissan 2003-B Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it it, and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the CertificateholdersTrustee, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)and
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(vii) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other an employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
Section 406 of Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer"ERISA"), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of a plan subject to Section 7704 4975 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under a governmental plan (as defined in Section 7704 3(32) of the Code;
(viiiERISA) it either (A) is notsubject to any federal, and will not becomestate or local law which is, to a partnershipmaterial extent, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior similar to the time foregoing provisions of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (ERISA or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Ownera "Plan"), such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer nor a person acting on behalf of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (Plan nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes using the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members assets of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of Plan to effect such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph))transfer;
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel to the Owner Trustee that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, to or on behalf of, of a Plan or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. (Nissan 2003-B Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is in fact not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Nissan Auto Receivables 2003-B Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Wilmington Trust Company shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association Wilmington Trust Company shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which (Nissan 2005-A Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it it, and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the CertificateholdersTrustee, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)and
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(vii) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other an employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
Section 406 of Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer"ERISA"), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of a plan subject to Section 7704 4975 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under a governmental plan (as defined in Section 7704 3(32) of the Code;
(viiiERISA) it either (A) is notsubject to any federal, and will not becomestate or local law which is, to a partnershipmaterial extent, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior similar to the time foregoing provisions of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (ERISA or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Ownera "Plan"), such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer nor a person acting on behalf of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (Plan nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes using the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members assets of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of Plan to effect such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph))transfer;
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel to the Owner Trustee that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, to or on behalf of, of a Plan or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. (Nissan 2005-A Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is in fact not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Nissan Auto Receivables 2005-a Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association Harrxx Xxxst Company of New York shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which having an office or agency located in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, and that shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it it, and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the CertificateholdersTrustee, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)and
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(vii) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other an employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
Section 406 of Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer"ERISA"), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of a plan subject to Section 7704 4975 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is nota "Plan"), and will not become, nor a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer person acting on behalf of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (Plan nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes using the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members assets of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of Plan to effect such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph))transfer;
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel to the Owner Trustee that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, to or on behalf of, of a Plan or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is in fact not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.05, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association [____________] shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer Depositor or its designee shall appoint another bank or trust companycompany to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement, which shall entity will agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it as successor Certificate Registrar, and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this AgreementTrustee.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.05, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.05. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, (i) the Owner Trustee shall not make make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register register, transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the CertificatesCertificates and (ii) the Owner Trustee shall permit the registration, transfer and exchange of Certificates only in minimum denominations of a Percentage Interest of 5.00% and integral multiples of 5.00% in excess thereof.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)and
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(vii) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar LawPlan;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel to the Owner Trustee that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, to a Non-U.S. Person or to or on behalf of, of a Benefit Plan or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is in fact not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Toyota Auto Finance Receivables LLC)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association [The Owner Trustee] [________] shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of 13 such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which having an office or agency located in the [Borough of Manhattan], The City of New York, and that shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it it, and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the CertificateholdersTrustee, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause ________ as its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) received a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) Owner Trustee to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (Section 406 of ERISA or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of a plan subject to Section 7704 4975 of the Code or would make (a "Plan"), nor a person acting on behalf of a Plan nor using the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 assets of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is nota Plan to effect such transfer, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is not an insurance company purchasing a Certificate with funds contained in an "insurance company general account" (as defined in Section V(e) of Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 95-60 ("PTCE 95-60")) as to which there is a Plan with respect to which the amount of such an entity, but general account's reserves and liabilities for the contracts held by or on behalf of such Plan and all other Plans maintained by the same employer (xor affiliate thereof as defined in Section V(a)(1) none of PTCE 95-60) of by the same employee organization exceed 10% of the direct total of all reserves and liabilities of such general account (as such amounts are determined under Section I(a) of PTCE 95-60) at the date of acquisition; or
(ii) is a Plan or indirect beneficial owners is an insurance company purchasing a Certificate with funds contained in an insurance company general account, having attached thereto an opinion of any counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, which opinion shall not be an expense of either the Owner Trustee or the Trust, addressed to the Owner Trustee, to the effect that the purchase or holding of such Certificate will not result in the assets of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior Owner Trust Estate being deemed to be "plan assets" and subject to the time prohibited transaction provisions of such proposed transfer) of ERISA and the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not Code and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to subject the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes obligation in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide addition to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests those expressly undertaken in this paragraph, taking Agreement or to any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effectliability. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is in fact not permitted by this Section 3.03(c3.04(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer [Wilmington Trust, National Association] shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank [Wilmington Trust, National Association Association] shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the CertificateholdersTrustee, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit CB to the effect that:
(ii) such transferee is not a Non-U.S. Person; and
(3iii) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate transferee is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.Plan;
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar Trustee shall keep or cause to be keptkept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and certificate registrar (the "Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar"), at its Corporate Trust Officein accordance with the provisions of Section 16.7, a register (the "Certificate Register Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association The Certificate Register shall list the names of the Certificateholders and their respective ownership interests in the Trust, and shall be treated as definitive and binding for all purposes hereunder. Only those persons registered as Certificateholders in the initial Certificate RegistrarRegister shall be recognized as having any interest in the Trust or Trust estate or as possessing the rights of a Certificateholder hereunder. A transfer of ownership of a Certificate shall be effectuated only by an appropriate entry in the Certificate Register. The Bank of New York is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar for the purpose of registering Certificates and transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. In the event that that, subsequent to the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become date of issuance of the Certificates, the Trustee is unable to act as Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to Trustee shall, with the Depositorconsent of the Seller, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in New York City and which shall agree agrees to act in accordance with the provisions of this the Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholdersit, to act act, as successor Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar under this the Agreement.
(b) . The Bank of New York shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar upon 30 days' written notice to the Seller and the Servicer; provided, however, that such resignation shall not be effective and The Bank of New York shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar until the Trustee has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar with the consent of the Seller. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Class A Certificate or Class B Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar maintained pursuant to Section 3.0716.7, the Owner Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar shall make an appropriate entry in the Certificate Register to reflect such transfer, and the Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate if the Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar shall) deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agentamount. At the option of a HolderCertificateholder, Class A Certificates or Class B Certificates may be exchanged for other Class A Certificates of or Class B Certificates, as the case may be, in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of at such office or agency. Whenever any Class A Certificate or Class B Certificate is surrendered for exchange, the Trustee shall execute, authenticate and (if the Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar shall) deliver the Certificates which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07receive. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or Holder, which signature on such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied assignment must be guaranteed by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability member of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) New York Stock Exchange or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuera commercial bank or trust company. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar or retained in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer standard retention policy and disposed of or retained in a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) manner satisfactory to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transferSeller. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Certificate 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.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Usaa Federal Savings Bank)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall keep or cause to be kept, kept at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency to be maintained pursuant to Section 3.8 by a certificate registrar (the "Certificate Registrar"), a register (the "Certificate Register Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. The Chase Manhattan Bank National Association shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that, subsequent to the date of issuance of the Certificates, The Chase Manhattan Bank notifies the Owner Trustee that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become it is unable to act as the Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall promptly give written notice to such effect to act, or the Owner Trustee shall, with the consent of the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in The City of New York and which shall agree agrees to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholdersit, to act act, as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) . The Owner Trustee may revoke such appointment and remove The Chase Manhattan Bank as the Certificate Registrar if the Owner Trustee determines in its sole discretion that The Chase Manhattan Bank failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. The Chase Manhattan Bank shall be permitted to resign as the Certificate Registrar upon 30 days' written notice to the Owner Trustee, the Depositor and the Issuer; provided, however, that such resignation shall not be effective and The Chase Manhattan Bank shall continue to perform its duties as the Certificate Registrar until the Owner Trustee has appointed a successor Certificate Registrar with the consent of the Depositor. An institution succeeding to the corporate agency business of the Certificate Registrar shall continue to be the Certificate Registrar without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the Owner Trustee or such Certificate Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and (if the Certificate Registrar is different than the Owner Trustee, then the Certificate Registrar shall) deliver (or shall cause The Chase Manhattan Bank as its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like class and aggregate face amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstandingWhenever any Certificate is surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee shall not make execute, authenticate and (if the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of is different than the Owner Trustee, then the Certificate Registrar shall) deliver the Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding which the due date for any payment with respect Cer-tificateholder making the exchange is entitled to the Certificates.
(c) receive. Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or Holder, which signature on such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied assignment must be guaranteed by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability member of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) New York Stock Exchange or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuera commercial bank or trust company. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee or Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.05, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank Xxxxx Fargo Delaware Trust Company, National Association Association, shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer Depositor or its designee shall appoint another bank or trust companycompany to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement, which shall entity will agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it as successor Certificate Registrar, and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this AgreementTrustee.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.05, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.05. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, (i) the Owner Trustee shall not make make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register register, transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the CertificatesCertificates and (ii) the Owner Trustee shall permit the registration, transfer and exchange of Certificates only in minimum denominations of a Percentage Interest of 5.00% and integral multiples of 5.00% in excess thereof.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)and
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(vii) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar LawPlan;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel to the Owner Trustee that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, to a Non-U.S. Person or to or on behalf of, of a Benefit Plan or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is in fact not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
(e) No transfer of a Certificate or any interest therein shall be made unless (i) the holder of such Certificate shall have first surrendered such Certificate to the Certificate Registrar for registration of transfer, or (ii) in the case of any such Certificate which shall have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen, the holder of such Certificate shall have first complied with the applicable provisions of Section 3.04.
(f) No transfer of a Certificate or any interest therein shall be made unless each prospective transferee represents and warrants, with respect to itself and each prospective beneficial owner of the Certificate, that it is not a member of an “expanded group” (within the meaning of the Treasury Regulations issued under Section 385 of the Code) that includes a domestic corporation (as determined for U.S. federal income tax purposes) that directly or indirectly (through one or more entities that are treated for U.S. federal income tax purposes as partnerships, disregarded entities, or grantor trusts) owns Notes (other than Retained Notes).
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Toyota Auto Receivables 2017-a Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association Harrxx Xxxst Company of New York shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which having an office or agency located in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, and that shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it it, and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the CertificateholdersTrustee, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)and
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(vii) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other an employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
Section 406 of Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer"ERISA"), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of a plan subject to Section 7704 4975 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is nota "Plan"), and will not become, nor a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer person acting on behalf of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (Plan nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes using the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members assets of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of Plan to effect such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph))transfer;
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel to the Owner Trustee that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, to or on behalf of, of a Plan or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The a. Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to SECTION 3.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. The Chase Manhattan Bank National Association shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for No certificate may be sold, transferred, assigned, participated, pledged, or otherwise disposed of to any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act Person except in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it SECTION 3.11 and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee any attempted transfer in violation of SECTION 3.11 shall be null and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreementvoid.
(b) b. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07SECTION 3.8, and upon compliance with the provisions of this Agreement relating to such transfer, Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount class and Certificate Percentage Interest dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a HolderCertificateholder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the CertificatesSECTION 3.8.
(c) c. Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied writing, with such signature guaranteed by IRS Form W-8 BENa member firm of the New York Stock Exchange, W-8 ECI a commercial bank or W-9, as applicable, and trust company or an "eligible guarantor institution" with membership or participation in STAMP or such other documentation "signature guarantee program" as may be required determined by the Owner Trustee Certificate Registrar in order to comply with applicable lawaddition to, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001or substitution for, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26STAMP, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation all in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the IssuerExchange Act. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee or Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) d. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
e. The preceding provisions of this SECTION 3.4 notwithstanding, Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar need not register any transfer or exchange of Certificates for a period of fifteen (15) days preceding any Payment Date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Ace Securities Corp Rv & Marine Trust 2001-Rv1)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association Wilmington Trust Company shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the The Certificate Registrar shall for provide the Indenture Trustee with a list of the names and addresses of the Certificateholder(s) on the Closing Date. Upon any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrartransfers of Certificates, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to notify the Depositor, the Owner Trustee Servicer and the ServicerIndenture Trustee of the name and address of the transferee in writing, by facsimile. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like class and aggregate amount Certificate Percentage Interest dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied writing, with such signature guaranteed by IRS Form W-8 BENan "eligible guarantor institution" meeting the requirements of the Certificate Registrar, W-8 ECI which requirements include membership or W-9, as applicable, and participation in the Securities Transfer Agent's Medallion Program ("STAMP") or such other documentation "signature guarantee program" as may be required determined by the Owner Trustee Certificate Registrar in order to comply with applicable lawaddition to, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001or in substitution for, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26STAMP, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation all in accordance with the terms hereofExchange Act. FurtherNo transfer of a Certificate shall be registered unless the transferee shall have provided an opinion of counsel that no registration is required under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the parties hereto agree that for purposes Investment Company Act of Applicable Law1940, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) as amended or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerany applicable state laws. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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. Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this Section 3.4, the Owner Trustee shall not be required to make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not be required to register, transfers or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association The Owner Trustee shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which having an office or agency located in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, and that shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it it, and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the CertificateholdersTrustee, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same Class of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to the Owner Trustee substantially in the form of Exhibit EXHIBIT B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)and
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(vii) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other an employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
Section 406 of Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer"ERISA"), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of a plan subject to Section 7704 4975 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is nota "Plan"), and will not become, nor a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer person acting on behalf of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (Plan nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes using the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members assets of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of Plan to effect such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph))transfer;
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to the Owner Trustee substantially in the form of Exhibit EXHIBIT C; and
(3) an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel to the Owner Trustee that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. For purposes of the preceding sentence, with respect to a Certificate that is a Book-Entry Certificate, if the transferee's certificate referred to above is not furnished, the representations contained in clause (1) above shall be deemed to have been made to the Owner Trustee by the transferee's (including an initial acquiror's) acceptance of such Certificate. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, to or on behalf of, of a Plan or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is in fact not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association [Wilmington Trust Company] shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the The Certificate Registrar shall for provide the Indenture Trustee with a list of the names and addresses of the Certificateholder(s) on the Closing Date. Upon any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrartransfers of Certificates, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to notify the Depositor, the Owner Trustee Servicer and the ServicerIndenture Trustee of the name and address of the transferee in writing, by facsimile. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like class and aggregate amount Certificate Percentage Interest dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied writing, with such signature guaranteed by IRS Form W-8 BENan "eligible guarantor institution" meeting the requirements of the Certificate Registrar, W-8 ECI which requirements include membership or W-9, as applicable, and participation in the Securities Transfer Agent's Medallion Program ("STAMP") or such other documentation "signature guarantee program" as may be required determined by the Owner Trustee Certificate Registrar in order to comply with applicable lawaddition to, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001or in substitution for, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26STAMP, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation all in accordance with the terms hereofExchange Act. FurtherNo transfer of a Certificate shall be registered unless the transferee shall have provided an opinion of counsel that no registration is required under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the parties hereto agree that for purposes Investment Company Act of Applicable Law1940, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) as amended or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerany applicable state laws. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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. Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this Section 3.4, the Owner Trustee shall not be required to make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not be required to register, transfers or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Wilmington Trust Company shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association Wilmington Trust Company shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it it, and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the CertificateholdersTrustee, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.. 10 (Nissan 2008-A Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)and
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(vii) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar LawPlan;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel to the Owner Trustee that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, to or on behalf of, of a Benefit Plan or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is in fact not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. The Chase Manhattan Bank National Association shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause The Chase Manhattan Bank as its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like class and aggregate face amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied writing, with such signature guaranteed by IRS Form W-8 BENa member firm of the New York Stock Exchange, W-8 ECI a commercial bank or W-9, as applicable, and trust company or an "eligible guarantor institution" with membership or participation in STAMP or such other documentation "signature guarantee program" as may be required determined by the Owner Trustee Certificate Registrar in order to comply with applicable lawaddition to, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001or substitution for, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26STAMP, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation all in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the IssuerExchange Act. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee or Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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. The preceding provisions of this Section 3.4 notwithstanding, Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar need not register any transfer or exchange of Certificates (i) until the Seller has, in the reasonable judgment of the Owner Trustee, complied with Section 5.3 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement and (ii) for a period of fifteen (15) days preceding any Distribution Date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to this Section 3.4(a), a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers Transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association The Owner Trustee shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In No Transfer of a Certificate shall be recognized except upon registration of such Transfer in the event that Certificate Register. Promptly upon the Owner Trustee’s request therefor, (a) the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable provide to act the Board and the Owner Trustee a true and complete copy of the Certificate Register, and (b) the Certificate Registrar shall provide to the Board and the Owner Trustee such information regarding the Certificates and the Certificateholders as is reasonably available to the Certificate Registrar.
(b) The Certificate Registrar shall provide the Trust Collateral Agent with a list of the names and addresses of the Certificateholders on the Closing Date, to the extent such information has been provided to the Certificate Registrar and in the form provided to the Certificate Registrar on such date. Upon any Transfers of Certificates, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to notify the DepositorTrust Collateral Agent of the name and address of the transferee in writing, by facsimile, on the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt day of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this AgreementTransfer.
(bc) Upon surrender for registration of transfer Transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency Indenture Trustee maintained pursuant to Section 3.07in the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause the Indenture Trustee as its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like class and aggregate face amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee (or by the Indenture Trustee as its authenticating agent) or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency of the Indenture Trustee maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions in the city of this Section notwithstandingMinneapolis, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the CertificatesMinnesota.
(cd) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer Transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by by: (i) a written instrument of transfer Transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied writing, with such signature guaranteed by IRS Form W-8 BENan “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Certificate Registrar, W-8 ECI which requirements include membership or W-9, as applicable, and participation in the Securities Transfer Agent’s Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other documentation “signature guarantee program” as may be required determined by the Owner Trustee Certificate Registrar in order addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP; and (ii) an Opinion of Counsel that the Transfer or exchange of such Certificate would not cause the Trust to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on be treated as an association or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such publicly traded partnership taxable as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuercorporation. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer Transfer or exchange shall be cancelled canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Indenture Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:.
(1e) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of Any Person acquiring any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and a Certificate will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior furnish to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) Person from whom it is not and will not be a principal purpose of acquiring such interest, the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy Trust, the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Indenture Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons Owner Trustee, a properly executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account will furnish a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositornew Form W-9, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any successor applicable state tax purposes form, upon the expiration or obsolescence of any previously delivered form) and such other certifications, representations or Opinions of Counsel as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to may be requested by the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirementsTrustee.
(df) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer Transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
(g) The Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or any state securities law. Subject to the provisions of Section 3.1 hereof, the Certificate Registrar shall not register the Transfer of any Certificate or unless such resale or Transfer is: (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; (ii) to the Seller; or (iii) unless it shall have received a representation letter or such other representations and an Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to the Board or the Owner Trustee to the effect that such resale or Transfer is made (A) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws, or (B) to a person who the transferor of the Certificate reasonably believes is a “qualified institutional buyer” (within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that is aware that such resale or other Transfer is being made in reliance upon Rule 144A. Until the earlier of (i) such time as the Certificates shall be registered pursuant to a registration statement filed under the Securities Act and (ii) the date three years from the later of the date of the original authentication and delivery of the Certificates and the date any Certificate was acquired from the Seller or any affiliate of the Seller, the Certificates shall bear a legend substantially to the effect set forth in the preceding two sentences. Neither the Seller, the Servicer, the Trust nor the Owner Trustee is obligated to register the Certificates under the Securities Act or to take any other action not otherwise required under this Agreement to permit the Transfer of Certificates without registration.
(h) The provisions of this Section 3.4 and of this Agreement generally are intended to prevent the Trust from being characterized as a “publicly traded partnership” within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code, in reliance on Treasury Regulations Section 1.7704-1(e) and (h), and the Certificateholders shall take such intent into account in requesting the Transfer of any Certificate.
(i) No Certificate may be sold, participated, transferred, assigned, exchanged or otherwise pledged or conveyed in whole or in part unless the Person that acquires the Certificate represents that:
(1) it is, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, either (a) a citizen or resident of the United States, (b) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state thereof or the District of Columbia which, if such entity is a tax-exempt entity, recognizes that payments with respect to the Certificate may constitute unrelated business taxable income, (c) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source, or (d) either (x) a trust for which a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over its administration and for which one or more persons described in this paragraph are able to control all substantial decisions or (y) a trust for which a valid election has been made to be treated as a United States person;
(2) it has not acquired and it will not transfer any interest in the Certificate, or cause an interest in the Certificate to be marketed, on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code and any Treasury regulations thereunder, including, without limitation, an over the counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations;
(3) (a) it is not and will not become (and, if it is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(a) (a “DRE”), its owner is not and will not become), for so long as it holds an interest in the Certificate, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (a “Flow-Thru Entity”); or (b) if it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is, or becomes, a Flow-Thru Entity, for so long as it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is a Flow-Thru Entity and it holds an interest in the Certificate, not more than 50% of the value of any interests in it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) will be attributable to interests in the Trust held by it;
(4) it understands that a subsequent Transfer of the Certificate will be null and void ab initio if such Transfer would cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five; and
(5) it understands that the Opinion of Counsel that the Trust is not a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of the representations in this Section 3.4(i).
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar Trustee shall keep or cause to be keptkept at the office or agency to be maintained by a transfer agent and certificate registrar (the "Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar"), at its Corporate Trust Officein accordance with the provisions of Section 16.7, a register (the "Certificate Register Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association The Certificate Register shall list the names of the Certificateholders and their respective ownership interests in the Trust, and shall be treated as definitive and binding for all purposes hereunder. Only those persons registered as Certificateholders in the initial Certificate RegistrarRegister shall be recognized as having any interest in the Trust or Trust estate or as possessing the rights of a Certificateholder hereunder. A transfer of ownership of a Certificate shall be effectuated only by an appropriate entry in the Certificate Register. The Chase Manhattan Bank is hereby initially appointed Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar for the purpose of registering Certificates and transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. In the event that that, subsequent to the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become date of issuance of the Certificates, the Trustee is unable to act as Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to Trustee shall, with the Depositorconsent of the Seller, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in New York City and which shall agree agrees to act in accordance with the provisions of this the Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholdersit, to act act, as successor Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar under this the Agreement.
(b) . The Chase Manhattan Bank shall be permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar upon 30 days' written notice to the Seller and the Servicer; provided, however, that such resignation shall not be effective and The Chase Manhattan Bank shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar until the Trustee has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar with the consent of the Seller. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Class A Certificate or Class B Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar maintained pursuant to Section 3.0716.7, the Owner Transfer Agent and Certifi cate Registrar shall make an appropriate entry in the Certificate Register to reflect such transfer, and the Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate if the Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar is different than the Trustee, then the Transfer Agent and Certificate Registrar shall) deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agentamount. At the option of a HolderCertificateholder, Class A Certificates or Class B Certificates may be exchanged for other Class A Certificates of or Class B Certificates, as the case may be, in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the such office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificatesagency.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuer. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Usaa Federal Savings Bank)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Harxxx Xxust Company of New York shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association Harxxx Xxust Company of New York shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which having an office or agency located in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, and that shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it it, and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the CertificateholdersTrustee, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)and
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(vii) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other an employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
Section 406 of Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer"ERISA"), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of a plan subject to Section 7704 4975 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is nota "Plan"), and will not become, nor a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer person acting on behalf of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (Plan nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes using the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members assets of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of Plan to effect such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph))transfer;
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel to the Owner Trustee that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, to or on behalf of, of a Plan or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is in fact not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Nissan Auto Receivables Ii 2001-C Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. The Bank National Association of New York (Delaware) shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In Registrar (the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as "Certificate Registrar"). No certificate may be sold, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice transferred, assigned, participated, pledged, or otherwise disposed of to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act any Person except in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it Section 3.11 and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee any attempted transfer in violation of Section 3.11 shall be null and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreementvoid.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8, and upon compliance with the provisions of this Agreement relating to such transfer, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount class and Certificate Percentage Interest dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a HolderCertificateholder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates3.8.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied writing, with such signature guaranteed by IRS Form W-8 BENa member firm of the New York Stock Exchange, W-8 ECI a commercial bank or W-9, as applicable, and trust company or an "eligible guarantor institution" with membership or participation in STAMP or such other documentation "signature guarantee program" as may be required determined by the Owner Trustee Certificate Registrar in order to comply with applicable lawaddition to, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001or substitution for, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26STAMP, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation all in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the IssuerExchange Act. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment 7 2002-1 Trust Agreement of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates.
(e) The preceding provisions of this Section 3.4 notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar need not register any transfer or exchange of Certificates for a period of fifteen (15) days preceding any Payment Date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association [______________] shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for No certificate may be sold, transferred, assigned, participated, pledged, or otherwise disposed of to any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act Person except in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it Section 3.11 and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee any attempted transfer in violation of Section 3.11 shall be null and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreementvoid.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8, and upon compliance with the provisions of this Agreement relating to such transfer, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount class and Certificate Percentage Interest dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a HolderCertificateholder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates3.8.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied writing, with such signature guaranteed by IRS Form W-8 BENa member firm of the New York Stock Exchange, W-8 ECI a commercial bank or W-9, as applicable, and trust company or an “eligible guarantor institution” with membership or participation in the Securities Transfer Agent’s Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other documentation “signature guarantee program” as may be required determined by the Owner Trustee Certificate Registrar in order to comply with applicable lawaddition to, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001or substitution for, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26STAMP, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation all in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the IssuerExchange Act. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of the Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
(e) The preceding provisions of this Section 3.4 notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar need not register any transfer or exchange of Certificates for a period of fifteen (15) days preceding any Distribution Date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.05, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association [________], shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer Depositor or its designee shall appoint another bank or trust companycompany to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement, which shall entity will agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it as successor Certificate Registrar, and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this AgreementTrustee.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.05, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.05. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, (i) the Owner Trustee shall not make make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register register, transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the CertificatesCertificates and (ii) the Owner Trustee shall permit the registration, transfer and exchange of Certificates only in minimum denominations of a Percentage Interest of 5.00% and integral multiples of 5.00% in excess thereof.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)and
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(vii) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar LawPlan;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel to the Owner Trustee that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, to a Non-U.S. Person or to or on behalf of, of a Benefit Plan or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is in fact not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Toyota Auto Finance Receivables LLC)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.05, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank Wxxxx Fargo Delaware Trust Company, National Association Association, shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer Depositor or its designee shall appoint another bank or trust companycompany to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement, which shall entity will agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it as successor Certificate Registrar, and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this AgreementTrustee.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.05, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.05. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, (i) the Owner Trustee shall not make make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register register, transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the CertificatesCertificates and (ii) the Owner Trustee shall permit the registration, transfer and exchange of Certificates only in minimum denominations of a Percentage Interest of 5.00% and integral multiples of 5.00% in excess thereof.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)and
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(vii) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar LawPlan;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel to the Owner Trustee that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, to a Non-U.S. Person or to or on behalf of, of a Benefit Plan or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is in fact not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Toyota Auto Receivables 2013-a Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.05, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association [___] shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer Depositor or its designee shall appoint another bank or trust companycompany to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement, which shall entity will agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it as successor Certificate Registrar, and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this AgreementTrustee.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.05, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.05. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, (i) the Owner Trustee shall not make make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register register, transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 fifteen (15) days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the CertificatesCertificates and (ii) the Owner Trustee shall permit the registration, transfer and exchange of Certificates only in minimum denominations of a Percentage Interest of 5.00% and integral multiples of 5.00% in excess thereof.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer or exchange in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)and
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(vii) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar LawPlan;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel to the Owner Trustee that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, to a Non-U.S. Person or to or on behalf of, of a Benefit Plan or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is in fact not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
(e) No transfer of a Certificate or any interest therein shall be made unless (i) the Holder of such Certificate shall have first surrendered such Certificate to the Certificate Registrar for registration of transfer, or (ii) in the case of any such Certificate which shall have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen, the Holder of such Certificate shall have first complied with the applicable provisions of Section 3.04.
(f) No transfer of a Certificate or any interest therein shall be made unless each prospective transferee represents and warrants, with respect to itself and each prospective beneficial owner of the Certificate, that it is not a member of an “expanded group” (within the meaning of the Treasury Regulations issued under Section 385 of the Code) that includes a domestic corporation (as determined for U.S. federal income tax purposes) or a “controlled partnership” (within the meaning of the Treasury Regulations issued under Section 385 of the Code) of such expanded group where any member of such “expanded group” directly or indirectly (through one or more entities that are treated for U.S. federal income tax purposes as partnerships, disregarded entities, or grantor trusts) owns Notes (other than Retained Notes).
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Toyota Auto Finance Receivables LLC)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to this Section 3.4(a), a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers Transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association The Owner Trustee shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In No Transfer of a Certificate shall be recognized except upon registration of such Transfer in the event that Certificate Register. Promptly upon the Owner Trustee’s request therefor, (a) the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable provide to act the Board and the Owner Trustee a true and complete copy of the Certificate Register, and (b) the Certificate Registrar shall provide to the Board and the Owner Trustee such information regarding the Certificates and the Certificateholders as is reasonably available to the Certificate Registrar.
(b) The Certificate Registrar shall provide the Trust Collateral Agent with a list of the names and addresses of the Certificateholders on the Closing Date, to the extent such information has been provided to the Certificate Registrar and in the form provided to the Certificate Registrar on such date. Upon any Transfers of Certificates, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to notify the DepositorTrust Collateral Agent of the name and address of the transferee in writing, by facsimile, on the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt day of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this AgreementTransfer.
(bc) Upon surrender for registration of transfer Transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency Indenture Trustee maintained pursuant to Section 3.07in the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause the Indenture Trustee as its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like class and aggregate face amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee (or by the Indenture Trustee as its authenticating agent) or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency of the Indenture Trustee maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions in the city of this Section notwithstandingMinneapolis, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the CertificatesMinnesota.
(cd) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer Transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by by: (i) a written instrument of transfer Transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied writing, with such signature guaranteed by IRS Form W-8 BENan “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Certificate Registrar, W-8 ECI which requirements include membership or W-9, as applicable, and participation in the Securities Transfer Agent’s Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other documentation “signature guarantee program” as may be required determined by the Owner Trustee Certificate Registrar in order addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP; and (ii) an Opinion of Counsel that the Transfer or exchange of such Certificate would not cause the Trust to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on be treated as an association or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such publicly traded partnership taxable as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuercorporation. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer Transfer or exchange shall be cancelled canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Indenture Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:.
(1e) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of Any Person acquiring any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and a Certificate will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior furnish to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) Person from whom it is not and will not be a principal purpose of acquiring such interest, the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy Trust, the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Indenture Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons Owner Trustee, a properly executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account will furnish a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositornew Form W-9, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any successor applicable state tax purposes form, upon the expiration or obsolescence of any previously delivered form) and such other certifications, representations or Opinions of Counsel as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to may be requested by the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirementsTrustee.
(df) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer Transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
(g) The Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or any state securities law. Subject to the provisions of Section 3.1 hereof, the Certificate Registrar shall not register the Transfer of any Certificate or unless such resale or Transfer is: (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; (ii) to the Seller; or (iii) unless it shall have received a representation letter or such other representations and an Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to the Board or the Owner Trustee to the effect that such resale or Transfer is made (A) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws, or (B) to a person who the transferor of the Certificate reasonably believes is a “qualified institutional buyer” (within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that is aware that such resale or other Transfer is being made in reliance upon Rule 144A. Until the earlier of (i) such time as the Certificates shall be registered pursuant to a registration statement filed under the Securities Act and (ii) the date three years from the later of the date of the original authentication and delivery of the Certificates and the date any Certificate was acquired from the Seller or any affiliate of the Seller, the Certificates shall bear a legend substantially to the effect set forth in the preceding two sentences. Neither the Seller, the Servicer, the Trust nor the Owner Trustee is obligated to register the Certificates under the Securities Act or to take any other action not otherwise required under this Agreement to permit the Transfer of Certificates without registration.
(h) The provisions of this Section 3.4 and of this Agreement generally are intended to prevent the Trust from being characterized as a “publicly traded partnership” within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code, in reliance on Treasury Regulation § 1.7704-1(e) and (h), and the Certificateholders shall take such intent into account in requesting the Transfer of any Certificate.
(i) No Certificate may be sold, participated, transferred, assigned, exchanged or otherwise pledged or conveyed in whole or in part unless the Person that acquires the Certificate represents that:
(1) it is, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, either (a) a citizen or resident of the United States, (b) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state thereof or the District of Columbia which, if such entity is a tax-exempt entity, recognizes that payments with respect to the Certificate may constitute unrelated business taxable income, (c) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source, or (d) either (x) a trust for which a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over its administration and for which one or more persons described in this paragraph are able to control all substantial decisions or (y) a trust for which a valid election has been made to be treated as a United States person;
(2) it has not acquired and it will not transfer any interest in the Certificate, or cause an interest in the Certificate to be marketed, on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code and any Treasury regulations thereunder, including, without limitation, an over the counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations;
(3) (a) it is not and will not become (and, if it is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(a) (a “DRE”), its owner is not and will not become), for so long as it holds an interest in the Certificate, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (a “Flow-Thru Entity”); or (b) if it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is, or becomes, a Flow-Thru Entity, for so long as it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is a Flow-Thru Entity and it holds an interest in the Certificate, not more than 50% of the value of any interests in it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) will be attributable to interests in the Trust held by it;
(4) it understands that a subsequent Transfer of the Certificate will be null and void ab initio if such Transfer would cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five; and
(5) it understands that the Opinion of Counsel that the Trust is not a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of the representations in this Section 3.4(i).
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar Trustee, as agent for Transferor, shall keep keep, or shall cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency to be maintained in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16, a register in written form or capable of being converted into written form within a reasonable time (the "Certificate Register Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be Trustee) (the Issuer "Transfer Agent and Registrar") shall provide for the registration of the Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of the Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association Transferor hereby appoints Trustee as the initial Transfer Agent and Registrar. Transferor, or Trustee as agent for Transferor, may revoke the appointment as Transfer Agent and Registrar and remove the then-acting Transfer Agent and Registrar if Trustee or Transferor (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 material respect. The then-acting Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give upon 30 days' prior written notice to Trustee, Transferor and Servicer; provided that such effect resignation shall not be effective and the then-acting Transfer Agent and Registrar shall continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar until Trustee has appointed a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar reasonably acceptable to Transferor and the Person so appointed has given Trustee written notice that it accepts the appointment. The provisions of Sections 11.1 through 11.5 shall apply to the Depositor, Transfer Agent and Registrar as if all references to "Trustee" in the Owner Trustee applicable provisions of Sections 11.1 through 11.5 were references to the Transfer Agent and Registrar. It is intended that the Servicer. Upon receipt registration of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act Certificates that is described in accordance this Section comply with the provisions registration requirements contained in Section 163 of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this AgreementInternal Revenue Code.
(b) Upon No transfer of all or any part of the Transferor Certificate shall be made unless (i) Transferor shall have given the Rating Agencies and Trustee prior written notice of the proposed transfer, (ii) the Modification Condition shall have been satisfied in connection with the proposed transfer and (iii) Transferor shall have delivered to Trustee, the Rating Agencies, each Purchaser and each Enhancement Provider a Tax Opinion for each outstanding Series of Investor Certificates, Purchased Interest and Enhancement. To the extent any interest in the Transferor Certificate is transferred pursuant to this Section 6.3(b), all payments to Transferor in respect of the Transferor Interest or the Transferor Certificate thereafter shall be made pro rata to all Persons owning any portion of the Transferor Certificate according to such percentages as are set forth in the notice delivered pursuant to clause (i) above. Any attempted transfer of all or any part of the Transferor Certificate other than as provided above shall be void and of no effect.
(c) Subject to the requirements of subsection (e), if applicable, having been fulfilled, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate Certificate, and, in the case of Investor Certificates, at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other any office or agency of the Transfer Agent and Registrar maintained pursuant to Section 3.07for such purpose, the Owner Trustee Transferor shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or Trustee shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates of the appropriate class and Series that are in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated fractional interest in the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agentrelated Series Interest that bear numbers that are not contemporaneously outstanding. At the option of a Holderan Investor Certificateholder, its Investor Certificates may be exchanged for other Investor Certificates of the same class and Series (and bearing the same interest rate as the Investor Certificate surrendered for registration of exchange) of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount fractional interests in the related Series Interest and bearing numbers that are not contemporaneously outstanding, upon surrender of the Investor Certificates to be exchanged at the any such office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07agency. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstandingWhenever any Investor Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, Transferor shall execute, and Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Owner Trustee shall not make appropriate number of Investor Certificates of the class and Series that the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding Investor Certificateholder making the due date for any payment with respect exchange is entitled to the Certificates.
(c) 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 Trustee or the Owner Trustee Transfer Agent and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder thereof or such Certificateholder’s attorney his attorney-in-fact duly authorized in a writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuer. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) delivered to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been Transfer Agent and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transferRegistrar. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Transfer Agent and Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient the Certificateholder to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Investor Certificates. All Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be cancelled and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to Trustee.
(d) Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange at the office of the Transfer Agent and Registrar designated in Section 13.6.
(e) Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Supplement, Certificateholders holding Definitive Certificates shall not sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of the Certificates unless the sale, transfer or disposition is being made pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws and, prior to the proposed sale, transfer or disposition, the Certificateholder and the proposed transferee each provide Trustee and Transferor with representations and, if requested by Trustee or Transferor, an Opinion of Counsel concerning the proposed sale, transfer or disposition and the availability of the exemption.
(f) The Investor Certificates shall bear such restrictive legends as shall be set forth in the applicable Supplements.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Big Flower Press Holdings Inc)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association ______________________ shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause ___________________ as its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like class and aggregate face amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied writing, with such signature guaranteed by IRS Form W-8 BENa member firm of the New York Stock Exchange, W-8 ECI a commercial bank or W-9, as applicable, and trust company or an "eligible guarantor institution" with membership or participation in STAMP or such other documentation "signature guarantee program" as may be required determined by the Owner Trustee Certificate Registrar in order to comply with applicable lawaddition to, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001or substitution for, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26STAMP, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation all in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the IssuerExchange Act. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee or Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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. The preceding provisions of this Section 3.4 notwithstanding, Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar need not register any transfer or exchange of Certificates for a period of fifteen (15) days preceding any Payment Date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Wells Fargo Auto Receivables Corp)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Deutsche Bank National Association Trust Company Delaware shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In Registrar (the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as "Certificate Registrar"). No certificate may be sold, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice transferred, assigned, participated, pledged, or otherwise disposed of to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act any Person except in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it Section 3.11 and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee any attempted transfer in violation of Section 3.11 shall be null and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreementvoid.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8, and upon compliance with the provisions of this Agreement relating to such transfer, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount class and Certificate Percentage Interest dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a HolderCertificateholder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates3.8.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied writing, with such signature guaranteed by IRS Form W-8 BENa member firm of the New York Stock Exchange, W-8 ECI a commercial bank or W-9, as applicable, and trust company or an "eligible guarantor institution" with membership or participation in STAMP or such other documentation "signature guarantee program" as may be required determined by the Owner Trustee Certificate Registrar in order to comply with applicable lawaddition to, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001or substitution for, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26STAMP, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation all in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the IssuerExchange Act. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
(e) The preceding provisions of this Section 3.4 notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar need not register any transfer or exchange of Certificates for a period of fifteen (15) days preceding any Payment Date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, no transfer (or purported transfer) of any Certificate (or any economic interest therein, including any contract described in Treasury Regulation section 1.7704-1
(a) (2)(i)(B)) shall be effective, and any such transfer (or purported transfer) shall be void ab initio, if after such transfer (or purported transfer) there would be more than 50 Certificateholders (where, for purposes of determining the number of Certificateholders, a person (beneficial owner) owning an interest in a partnership, grantor trust, or S corporation ("flow-through entity"), that owns, directly or through other flow-through entities, an interest in the Trust, is treated as a Certificateholder if more than 50 percent of the value of such beneficial owner's interest in the flow-through entity is attributable to the flow-through entity's interest (direct or indirect) in the Trust) or such transfer would otherwise cause the Trust to become a publicly traded partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes;
(g) No transfer (or purported transfer) of a Certificate (or economic interest therein), whether to another Certificateholder or to a person who is not a Certificateholder, shall be effective, and any such transfer (or purported transfer) shall be void ab initio, and no person shall otherwise become a Certificateholder, and none of the Trust, the Administrator or any of the Certificateholders will recognize such transfer (or purported transfer), unless the transferee has first represented and warranted in writing to the Trust and the Certificateholders that:
(1) it is acquiring the Certificates for its own account and is the sole beneficial owner of such Certificates;
(2) the transfer is not being effected on or through (x) an "established securities market" within the meaning of Section 7704(a)(1) of the Code, including without limitation, an over-the-counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations or (y) a "secondary market" or "substantial equivalent thereof" within the meaning of Section 7704(a)(2) of the Code and any proposed, temporary or final Treasury regulations thereunder; and
(3) such transfer will not cause the Trust to be classified as a publicly traded partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes, and such purchaser or transferee will not take any action, including any subsequent disposition of such Certificates or economic interest therein, that would cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (M&i Dealer Auto Securitization LLC)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association Wilmington Trust Company shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In Registrar (the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as "Certificate Registrar"). No certificate may be sold, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice transferred, assigned, participated, pledged, or otherwise disposed of to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act any Person except in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it Section 3.11 and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee any attempted transfer in violation of Section 3.11 shall be null and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreementvoid.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8, and upon compliance with the provisions of this Agreement relating to such transfer, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount class and Residual Percentage Interest dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a HolderCertificateholder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates3.8.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied writing, with such signature guaranteed by IRS Form W-8 BENa member firm of the New York Stock Exchange, W-8 ECI a commercial bank or W-9, as applicable, and trust company or an "eligible guarantor institution" with membership or participation in STAMP or such other documentation "signature guarantee program" as may be required determined by the Owner Trustee Certificate Registrar in order to comply with applicable lawaddition to, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001or substitution for, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26STAMP, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation all in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the IssuerExchange Act. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
(e) The preceding provisions of this Section 3.4 notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar need not register any transfer or exchange of Certificates for a period of fifteen (15) days preceding any Payment Date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.05, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association [___________] shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer Depositor or its designee shall appoint another bank or trust companycompany to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement, which shall entity will agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it as successor Certificate Registrar, and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this AgreementTrustee.
(b) Upon surrender for registration Each Certificate shall bear a legend regarding reoffers, resales, pledges and transfers to the effect of transfer the legend on the form of any Certificate at attached as Exhibit A hereto, unless determined otherwise by the Corporate Trust Office of Administrator (as certified to the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant in an Officer’s Certificate) consistent with applicable law. As a condition to Section 3.07the registration of any transfer of a Certificate, the Owner Trustee prospective transferee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent be required to authenticate and deliver), represent in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by writing to the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstandingTrustee, the Owner Trustee shall not make Depositor and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuer. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect thatfollowing:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and It has neither acquired nor will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, Certificate it purchases (or any interest therein) or cause any such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged (or transferred only (Aany interest therein) to a United States person be marketed on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(307704(b)(1) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to Code, including, without limitation, an effective registration statement under the Securities Act over-the-counter-market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations.
(ii) in a transaction exempt from It will be the registration requirements beneficial owner of the Securities Act Certificate and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, corporation or grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and Certificates.
(yiii) it is not and will not be a principal purpose It understands that no subsequent transfer of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, permitted unless (A) such transfer is of a Certificate with a denomination of at least a Percentage Interest of 5.00%, (B) it shall causes its proposed transferee to provide to the Owner Trustee Trust and the Certificate Registrar a letter substantially in the form of Exhibit C hereto, or such other written statement as the Depositor information as shall prescribe and (C) the Depositor consents in writing to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositorproposed transfer, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons transfer would create a risk that the Issuer Trust or the Titling Trust would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;; provided, however, that any attempted transfer that would either cause the number of holders of direct or indirect interests in the Titling Trust to exceed 50, shall be a void transfer.
(xiv) such transferee It understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially Opinion of Counsel to the Trust that the Trust is not a publicly traded partnership taxable as set forth a corporation is dependent in Section 3.09;part on the accuracy of the representations in paragraphs (i), (ii) and (iii) above.
(xiv) It is not a Benefit Plan nor will it hold the Certificates being transferred for the account of a Benefit Plan.
(Avi) It is a Person who is either (A)(1) a citizen or resident of the United States or (2) a corporation or partnership (including any entity treated as a corporation or partnership for U.S. income tax purposes) organized in or under the laws of the United States, any state or the District of Columbia or (B) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for federal income tax purposes, regardless of source or a trust if a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision of the administration of the trust and one or more U.S. Persons (as such transferee shall term is defined in the Code) have the authority to control all substantial decisions of the trust. It agrees that it will provide to a certification of non-foreign status signed under penalty of perjury (and such other certifications, representations or Opinions of Counsel as may be requested by the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;Registrar).
(xiivii) no It understands that any purported transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance in contravention of less than 2.1% any of the entire Certificate Balance; andrestrictions and conditions in this Section shall be void, and the purported transferee in such transfer shall not be recognized by the Trust or any other Person as a Certificateholder for any purpose.
(xvc) By acceptance of any attempted Certificate, the related Certificateholder specifically agrees with and represents to the Depositor, the Trust and Certificate Registrar that no transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate shall be made unless the registration requirements of the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws are complied with, or such transfer is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act because the transfer satisfies one of the following:
(i) Such transfer is in compliance with Rule 144A, to a transferee who the depositor reasonably believes is a Qualified Institutional Buyer that is purchasing for its own account or for the account of a Qualified Institutional Buyer and to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance upon Rule 144A and (A) the depositor thereof executes and delivers to the Depositor and the Certificate Registrar, a Rule 144A certificate substantially in the form of attached as Exhibit C; andB and (B) the transferee executes and delivers to the Depositor and the Certificate Registrar an investment letter substantially in the form attached as Exhibit C.
(3ii) an Opinion of Counsel that After the appropriate holding period, such transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective exemption from registration under the Securities Act provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act and the transferee, if requested by the Depositor or the Certificate Registrar, delivers an Opinion of Counsel in form and substance satisfactory to the Depositor.
(iii) Such transfer is to an institutional accredited investor as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) of Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, such transfer is in accordance with any purported transfer applicable securities laws of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan any State or any other employee benefit plan jurisdiction, and such investor executes and delivers to the Trust and the Certificate Registrar an investment letter substantially in the form attached as Exhibit D.
(d) Upon surrender for registration of transfer or arrangement that is subject exchange of any Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Similar Law shall be void Section 3.05 and upon compliance with the provisions of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (includingthis Agreement relating to such transfer or exchange, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, (i) the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person not register, transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates and (ii) the Owner Trustee shall permit the registration, transfer and exchange of Certificates only in minimum denominations of a Percentage Interest of 5.00% and integral multiples of 5.00% in excess thereof. The Certificate Registrar shall require that every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of any Certificate that is not permitted transfer and accompanied by this Section 3.03(cIRS Form W-9 (or successor form) or for making any payments due on such Certificate other form as may be reasonably required in form satisfactory to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale Owner Trustee and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Holder or his attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
(e) The provisions of this Section generally are intended, among other things, to prevent the Trust from being characterized as a “publicly traded partnership” within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code, in reliance on Treasury Regulations Seciton 1.7704-1(e) and (h) and the Depositor shall take such intent into account in determining whether or not to consent to any proposed transfer of any Certificate.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Toyota Lease Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep maintain, or cause to be keptmaintained, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a register (the "Certificate Register Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein providedprovided in this Agreement. U.S. Bank National Association shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the The Owner Trustee is hereby initially appointed Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act the purpose of registering Certificates and transfers and exchanges of Certificates as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act provided in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent the Authentication Agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agentAuthentication Agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates3.8.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by (i) a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar Registrar, duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Lawwriting, and (bii) each such Certificateholder is a representation letter and shall deemed to be certification in the parties with form of Exhibit C hereto, duly executed by the power and authority to control the Issuertransferee Holder. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
(e) The Certificates may not be acquired by or for the account of (i) an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA")) that is subject to the provisions of Title 1 of ERISA, (ii) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include "plan assets" (within the meaning of Department of Labor ("DOL") Regulation Section 2510.3-101, 29 C.F.R. ss. 2510.3-101 or otherwise under ERISA) by reason of a plan's investment in the entity, including, without limitation, an insurance company acting on behalf of its general account; provided, however, that a Certificate or an interest therein may be transferred to an insurance company acting on behalf of its general account if such insurance company represents and covenants in writing to the Company, the Owner Trustee, the Underwriters and the Servicer that (i) on the date of such transfer, less than 25% of the assets of such general account (as reasonably determined by such insurance company) constitute "plan assets" for purposes of Title I of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Code, (ii) the purchase and holding of such Certificate are eligible for exemptive relief under Sections (1) and (3) of Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 95-60 and (iii) if, after the initial acquisition of such Certificate, at any time during any calendar quarter (A) 25% or more of the assets of such general account (as reasonably determined by such insurance company no less frequently than each calendar quarter) constitute "plan assets" for purposes of Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and no exemption or exception from the prohibited transaction rules applies to the continued holding of such Certificate under Section 401(c) of ERISA and the final regulations thereunder or under an exemption or regulation issued by the DOL under ERISA or (B) the Company, the Owner Trustee, the Underwriters or the Servicer furnishes to the insurance company an opinion of counsel to the effect that the holding of such Certificate in the insurance company's general account causes the assets of the Trust to be considered "plan assets" (within the meaning of DOL Regulation Section 2510.3-101, 29 C.F.R. ss. 2510.3-101 or otherwise under ERISA), then such insurance company will dispose of all of the Certificates then held in its general account by the end of the next following calendar quarter.
(f) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar shall not be responsible for ascertaining whether any transfer complies with the registration provisions or exemptions from the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, applicable state securities law or the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, or the exemption provisions of ERISA; provided, however, that if a certificate is specifically required to be delivered to the Owner Trustee by a purchaser or transferee of a Certificate, the Owner Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether it conforms to the requirements of this Agreement and shall promptly notify the party delivering the same if such certificate does not so conform.
(g) Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this Section, the Owner Trustee shall not be required to make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not be required to register, transfers or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificate.
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep maintain, or cause to be keptmaintained, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.7, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein providedprovided in this Agreement. U.S. Bank National Association shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Wilmington Trust Company is hereby initially appointed Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act the purpose of registering Certificates and transfers and exchanges of Certificates as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act provided in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.7 (and subject to the transfer restrictions contained in the Certificate Purchase Agreement and in Section 9.2 with respect to General Partner Certificates), the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent the Authentication Agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount Certificate Balance, dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount Certificate Balance upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates3.7.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
(e) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, the Investor Certificates shall be issued only in transactions which are not required to be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, and the Seller may prevent any transfer, participation or other disposition of any interest in any Investor Certificate if the Seller, in its sole and absolute discretion, determines that such transfer, participation or other disposition, if effected, would cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership under Section 7704 of the Code or the Treasury Regulations issued thereunder.
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall keep or cause to be kept, kept at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency to be maintained pursuant to Section 3.8 by a certificate registrar (the "Certificate Registrar"), a register (the "Certificate Register Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. The Chase Manhattan Bank National Association shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that, subsequent to the date of issuance of the Certificates, The Chase Manhattan Bank notifies the Owner Trustee that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become it is unable to act as the Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall promptly give written notice to such effect to act, or the Owner Trustee shall, with the consent of the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in The City of New York and which shall agree agrees to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholdersit, to act act, as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) . The Owner Trustee may revoke such appointment and remove The Chase Manhattan Bank as the Certificate Registrar if the Owner Trustee determines in its sole discretion that The Chase Manhattan Bank failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. The Chase Manhattan Bank shall be permitted to resign as the Certificate Registrar upon 30 days' written notice to the Owner Trustee, the Depositor and the Issuer; provided, however, that such resignation shall not be effective and The Chase Manhattan Bank shall continue to perform its duties as the Certificate Registrar until the Owner Trustee has appointed a successor Certificate Registrar with the consent of the Depositor. An institution succeeding to the corporate agency business of the Certificate Registrar shall continue to be the Certificate Registrar without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the Owner Trustee or such Certificate Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and (if the Certificate Registrar is different than the Owner Trustee, then the Certificate Registrar shall) deliver (or shall cause The Chase Manhattan Bank as its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like class and aggregate face amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstandingWhenever any Certificate is surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee shall not make execute, authenticate and (if the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of is different than the Owner Trustee, then the Certificate Registrar shall) deliver the Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding which the due date for any payment with respect Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to the Certificates.
(c) receive. Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or Holder, which signature on such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied assignment must be guaranteed by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability member of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) New York Stock Exchange or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuera commercial bank or trust company. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee or Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association Wilmington Trust Company shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the No Certificate Registrar shall for may be sold, transferred, assigned, participated, pledged, or otherwise disposed of to any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act Person except in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it Section 3.11 and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee any attempted transfer in violation of Section 3.11 shall be null and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreementvoid.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8, and upon compliance with the provisions of this Agreement relating to such transfer, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount class and Certificate Percentage Interest dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a HolderCertificateholder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates3.8.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied writing, with such signature guaranteed by IRS Form W-8 BENa member firm of the New York Stock Exchange, W-8 ECI a commercial bank or W-9, as applicable, and trust company or an “eligible guarantor institution” with membership or participation in the Securities Transfer Agent’s Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other documentation “signature guarantee program” as may be required determined by the Owner Trustee Certificate Registrar in order to comply with applicable lawaddition to, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001or substitution for, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26STAMP, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation all in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the IssuerExchange Act. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of the Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
(e) The preceding provisions of this Section 3.4 notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar need not register any transfer or exchange of Certificates for a period of fifteen (15) days preceding any Distribution Date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Bank One Auto Securitization Trust 2003-1)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep maintain, or cause to be keptmaintained, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein providedprovided in this Agreement. U.S. Bank National Association shall be the The Owner Trustee is hereby appointed initial Certificate Registrar. In Registrar for the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act purpose of registering Certificates and transfers and exchanges of Certificates as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act provided in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8, and compliance with subsection (c), the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent the Authentication Agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount Certificates, dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates3.8.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 20011) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuer. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made by Arcadia Receivables Finance Corp. VI or any other Person unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), and other any applicable state securities laws or “Blue Sky” is made in accordance with the Act and laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in . In the event of that any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Personsmade, (A) it the Depositor may require a written Opinion of Counsel acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to the Depositor that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption, describing the applicable exemption and the basis therefor, from the Act and laws or is being made pursuant to the Act and laws, which Opinion of Counsel shall provide to not be an expense of the Owner Trustee and or the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons Depositor, and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held Owner Trustee shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as transferee to execute an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate investment letter substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) C attached hereto, which investment letter shall not be an Opinion expense of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Depositor. Any Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Owner Trustee, the Depositor and the Certificate Registrar against any liability that may require payment result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with such federal and state laws. In addition, no transfer of a sum sufficient Certificate shall be made by Arcadia Receivables Finance Corp. VI or any other person to cover an Affiliate of the Servicer or the Seller without (i) the written Opinion of Counsel acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to the Depositor that in the event the Servicer or the Seller became a debtor under the United States Bankruptcy Code, a court exercising reasonable judgment under then existing statutes and precedents would not order that the assets of such Affiliate be consolidated with those of the Servicer or the Seller, which opinion shall not be an expense of the Owner Trustee or the Depositor, and (ii) written notification from each Rating Agency to the effect that such transfer will not cause such Rating Agency to downgrade its then-current ratings, if any, of any tax of the Notes below the lower of the then-current rating or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange the rating assigned to such Notes as of Certificatesthe Closing Date by such Rating Agency.
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.05, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association [__________], shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer Depositor or its designee shall appoint another bank or trust companycompany to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement, which shall entity will agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it as successor Certificate Registrar, and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this AgreementTrustee.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.05, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.05. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, (i) the Owner Trustee shall not make make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register register, transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the CertificatesCertificates and (ii) the Owner Trustee shall permit the registration, transfer and exchange of Certificates only in minimum denominations of a Percentage Interest of 5.00% and integral multiples of 5.00% in excess thereof.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)and
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(vii) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar LawPlan;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel to the Owner Trustee that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, to a Non-U.S. Person or to or on behalf of, of a Benefit Plan or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is in fact not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Toyota Auto Finance Receivables LLC)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep maintain, or cause to be keptmaintained, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein providedprovided in this Agreement. U.S. Bank National Association shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the The Owner Trustee is hereby initially appointed Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act the purpose of registering Certificates and transfers and exchanges of Certificates as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act provided in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8, and compliance with subsection (c), the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent the Authentication Agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount Certificates, dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates3.8.
(c1) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuer. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made by CFVSC or any other Person unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Act"), as amended, and other any applicable state securities laws or “Blue Sky” is made in accordance with the Act and laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in . In the event of that any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Personsmade, (A) it the Depositor may require a written Opinion of Counsel acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to the Depositor that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption, describing the applicable exemption and the basis therefor, from the Act and laws or is being made pursuant to the Act and laws, which Opinion of Counsel shall provide to not be an expense of the Owner Trustee and or the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons Depositor, and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held Owner Trustee shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as transferee to execute an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate investment letter substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) C attached hereto, which investment letter shall not be an Opinion expense of Counsel the Owner Trustee or the Depositor. Any Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Owner Trustee, the Depositor and the Certificate Registrar against any liability that may result if the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act not so exempt or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Actnot made in accordance with such federal and state laws. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary hereinIn addition, any purported no transfer of a Certificate toshall be made by CFVSC or any other person to an Affiliate of the Originator without (i) the written Opinion of Counsel acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to the Depositor that in the event the Originator became a debtor under the United States Bankruptcy Code, on behalf of, or utilizing a court exercising reasonable judgment under then existing statutes and precedents would not order that the assets of a Benefit Plan such Affiliate be consolidated with those of the Originator, which opinion shall not be an expense of the Owner Trustee or the Depositor, and (ii) written notification from each Rating Agency to the effect that such transfer will not cause such Rating Agency to downgrade its then-current ratings, if any, of any of the Notes below the lower of the then-current rating or the rating assigned to such Notes as of the Closing Date by such Rating Agency.
(2) Any transfer, sale or other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject disposition not in compliance with the provisions of this Section 3.4(c) shall be deemed to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To legal force or effect whatsoever and such transferee shall be deemed to not be the extent permitted under applicable law (Certificateholder for any purpose hereunder, including, but not limited to, ERISA)the receipt of distributions on such Certificate, neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar and shall be under any liability deemed to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on have no interest whatsoever in such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirementsCertificate.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
(e) The Certificates may not be acquired by or for the account of (i) a pension, profit sharing or other employee benefit plan, or an individual retirement account or Xxxxx plan, subject to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (a "Benefit Plan"), or (ii) any entity whose underlying assets include "plan assets" (within the meaning of Department of Labor ("DOL") Regulation Section 2510.3-101, 29 C.F.R. ss. 2510.3-101 or otherwise under ERISA) by reason of a Benefit Plan's investment in the entity, including, without limitation, an insurance company acting on behalf of its general account.
(f) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar shall not be responsible for ascertaining whether any transfer complies with the registration provisions or exemptions from the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or applicable state securities law or the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended; provided, however, that if a certificate is specifically required to be delivered to the Owner Trustee by a purchaser or transferee of a Certificate, the Owner Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether it conforms to the requirements of this Agreement and shall promptly notify the party delivering the same if such certificate does not so conform.
(g) Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this Section, the Owner Trustee shall not be required to make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not be required to register, transfers or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Conseco Finance Securitizations Corp)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.05, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank Trust National Association shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer Depositor or its designee shall appoint another bank or trust companycompany to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement, which shall entity will agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it as successor Certificate Registrar, and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this AgreementTrustee.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.05, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.05. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, (i) the Owner Trustee shall not make make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register register, transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the CertificatesCertificates and (ii) the Owner Trustee shall permit the registration, transfer and exchange of Certificates only in minimum denominations of a Percentage Interest of 5.00% and integral multiples of 5.00% in excess thereof.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)and
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(vii) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar LawPlan;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel to the Owner Trustee that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, to a Non-U.S. Person or to or on behalf of, of a Benefit Plan or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is in fact not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Toyota Auto Receivables 2010-a Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Office, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association [_______________] shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BENX-0 XXX, W-8 X-0 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuer. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;; 7 (NAROT 20[ ]-[ ] Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement);
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement).
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.05, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association [___] shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer Depositor or its designee shall appoint another bank or trust companycompany to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement, which shall entity will agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it as successor Certificate Registrar, and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this AgreementTrustee.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.05, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.05. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, (i) the Owner Trustee shall not make make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register register, transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 fifteen (15) days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the CertificatesCertificates and (ii) the Owner Trustee shall permit the registration, transfer and exchange of Certificates only in minimum denominations of a Percentage Interest of 5.00% and integral multiples of 5.00% in excess thereof.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer or exchange in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by writing, an IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, W-9 and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable lawTrust, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. FurtherDepositor, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Administrator or the Certificate Registrar to comply with AML Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuer. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)and
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(vii) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar LawPlan;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel to the Owner Trustee that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, to a Non-U.S. Person or to or on behalf of, of a Benefit Plan or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is in fact not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
(e) No transfer of a Certificate or any interest therein shall be made unless (i) the Holder of such Certificate shall have first surrendered such Certificate to the Certificate Registrar for registration of transfer, or (ii) in the case of any such Certificate which shall have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen, the Holder of such Certificate shall have first complied with the applicable provisions of Section 3.04.
(f) No transfer of a Certificate or any interest therein shall be made unless each prospective transferee represents and warrants, with respect to itself and each prospective beneficial owner of the Certificate, that it is not a member of an “expanded group” (within the meaning of the Treasury Regulations issued under Section 385 of the Code) that includes a domestic corporation (as determined for U.S. federal income tax purposes) or a “controlled partnership” (within the meaning of the Treasury Regulations issued under Section 385 of the Code) of such expanded group where any member of such “expanded group” directly or indirectly (through one or more entities that are treated for U.S. federal income tax purposes as partnerships, disregarded entities, or grantor trusts) owns Notes (other than Retained Notes).
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Toyota Auto Finance Receivables LLC)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association Harrxx Xxxst Company of New York shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which having an office or agency located in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, and that shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it it, and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the CertificateholdersTrustee, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuer. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.Certificate
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Nissan Auto Receivables 2000-C Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association, as Indenture Trustee, agrees to act as initial Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to this Section 3.4(a), a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers Transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association No Transfer of a Certificate shall be recognized except upon registration of such Transfer in the initial Certificate RegistrarRegister. In Promptly upon the event that Owner Trustee’s request therefor, (a) the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable provide to act the Board and the Owner Trustee a true and complete copy of the Certificate Register, and (b) the Certificate Registrar shall provide to the Board and the Owner Trustee such information regarding the Certificates and the Certificateholders as is reasonably available to the Certificate Registrar.
(c) The Certificate Registrar shall provide the Trust Collateral Agent with a list of the names and addresses of the Certificateholders on the Closing Date, to the extent such information has been provided to the Certificate Registrar and in the form provided to the Certificate Registrar on such date. Upon any Transfers of Certificates, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to notify the DepositorTrust Collateral Agent of the name and address of the transferee in writing, by facsimile, on the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt day of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this AgreementTransfer.
(bd) Upon surrender for registration of transfer Transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07in the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause the Certificate Registrar as its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like class and aggregate face amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee (or by the Certificate Registrar as its authenticating agent) or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges maintained in the city of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the CertificatesMinneapolis, Minnesota.
(ce) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer Transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by by: (i) a written instrument of transfer Transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied writing, with such signature guaranteed by IRS Form W-8 BENan “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Certificate Registrar, W-8 ECI which requirements include membership or W-9, as applicable, and participation in the Securities Transfer Agent’s Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other documentation “signature guarantee program” as may be required determined by the Owner Trustee Certificate Registrar in order addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP; and (ii) an Opinion of Counsel that the Transfer or exchange of such Certificate would not cause the Trust to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on be treated as an association or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such publicly traded partnership taxable as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuercorporation. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer Transfer or exchange shall be cancelled canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:.
(1f) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of Any Person acquiring any interest in a Certificate will furnish to the Certificates;Person from whom it is acquiring such interest, the Trust, Certificate Registrar and the Owner Trustee, a properly executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (and will furnish a new Form W-9, or any successor applicable form, 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 Owner Trustee.
(viig) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and Any Person transferring any interest in a Certificate will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior furnish to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests Person to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) whom it is not transferring such interest, the Trust and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the DepositorTrustee, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth affidavit described in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a1446(f)(2) of the Code, hereby appoints in a form reasonably acceptable to the transferee as its agent for purposes and the Trust, stating, under penalty of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e.perjury, 80 percent or more of the Issuersuch Person’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) United States taxpayer identification number and that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirementsa foreign person.
(dh) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer Transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
(i) The Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or any state securities law. Subject to the provisions of Section 3.1 hereof, the Certificate Registrar shall not register the Transfer of any Certificate or unless such resale or Transfer is: (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; (ii) to the Seller; or (iii) unless it shall have received a representation letter or such other representations and an Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to the Board or the Owner Trustee to the effect that such resale or Transfer is made (A) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws, or (B) to a person who the transferor of the Certificate reasonably believes is a “qualified institutional buyer” (within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that is aware that such resale or other Transfer is being made in reliance upon Rule 144A. Until the earlier of (i) such time as the Certificates shall be registered pursuant to a registration statement filed under the Securities Act and (ii) the date three years from the later of the date of the original authentication and delivery of the Certificates and the date any Certificate was acquired from the Seller or any affiliate of the Seller, the Certificates shall bear a legend substantially to the effect set forth in the preceding two sentences. Neither the Seller, the Servicer, the Trust nor the Owner Trustee is obligated to register the Certificates under the Securities Act or to take any other action not otherwise required under this Agreement to permit the Transfer of Certificates without registration.
(j) The provisions of this Section 3.4 and of this Agreement generally are intended to prevent the Trust from being characterized as a “publicly traded partnership” within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code, in reliance on Treasury Regulations Section 1.7704-1(e) and (h), and the Certificateholders shall take such intent into account in requesting the Transfer of any Certificate.
(k) No Certificate may be sold, participated, transferred, assigned, exchanged or otherwise pledged or conveyed in whole or in part unless the Person that acquires the Certificate represents that:
(1) it is, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, either (a) a citizen or resident of the United States, (b) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state thereof or the District of Columbia which, if such entity is a tax-exempt entity, recognizes that payments with respect to the Certificate may constitute unrelated business taxable income, (c) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source, or (d) either (x) a trust for which a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over its administration and for which one or more persons described in this paragraph are able to control all substantial decisions or (y) a trust for which a valid election has been made to be treated as a United States person;
(2) it has not acquired and it will not transfer any interest in the Certificate, or cause an interest in the Certificate to be marketed, on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code and any Treasury regulations thereunder, including, without limitation, an over the counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations;
(3) (a) it is not and will not become (and, if it is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(a) (a “DRE”), its owner is not and will not become), for so long as it holds an interest in the Certificate, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (a “Flow-Thru Entity”); or (b) if it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is, or becomes, a Flow-Thru Entity, for so long as it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is a Flow-Thru Entity and it holds an interest in the Certificate, not more than 50% of the value of any interests in it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) will be attributable to interests in the Trust held by it;
(4) it understands that a subsequent Transfer of the Certificate will be null and void ab initio if such Transfer would cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five; and
(5) it understands that the Opinion of Counsel that the Trust is not a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of the representations in this Section 3.4(j).
(l) Unless (1) the Owner Trustee has received an Opinion of Counsel from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Xxxxxxx & Xxxx LLP or another nationally recognized tax counsel selected by a Certificateholder that the restriction on the proposed acquisition of a Certificate (or any interest therein) described by this subsection is no longer necessary to conclude that any such acquisition (and subsequent resale of the applicable Notes described below) will not cause the Treasury Regulations under Section 385 of the Code to apply to such Notes in a manner that could cause a material adverse effect on the Trust or the Trust to be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (2) the Treasury Regulations under Section 385 of the Code are repealed and not replaced with proposed, temporary or final Treasury Regulations that (as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel from a nationally recognized tax counsel) could affect the classification of the Notes as debt for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (i) a Section 385 Certificateholder cannot acquire a Certificate (or any interest therein) if (A) a member of any “expanded group” (as defined in Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-1(c)(4)) that includes such Section 385 Certificateholder owns any Notes or (B) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such expanded group owns any Notes and (ii) a Section 385 Certificateholder cannot hold a Certificate (or any interest therein) if (A) a member of any “expanded group” (as defined in Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-1(c)(4)) that includes such Section 385 Certificateholder acquires any Notes from the Trust, any Affiliate of the Trust or any other subsequent transferor of a Note or (B) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such expanded group acquires any Notes from the Trust, any Affiliate of the Trust or any other subsequent transferor of a Note. The preceding sentence shall not apply if the Noteholder or potential Noteholder is a U.S. corporate member of the same U.S. corporate “affiliated group” (as defined in Section 1504 of the Code) filing a consolidated federal income tax return that includes each of any applicable related Section 385 Certificateholders (including in the case of a partnership, the relevant “expanded group partner” (as defined in Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12))). If a Certificateholder (or holder of an interest in a Certificate) fails to comply with the foregoing requirements, the Trust and Owner Trustee are authorized, at their discretion, to compel such Certificateholder (or holder of an interest in a Certificate) to sell its Certificate (or interest therein) to a Person whose ownership complies with this subsection so long as such sale does not otherwise cause a material adverse effect on the Trust or cause the Trust to be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer [Wilmington Trust Company] shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association [Wilmington Trust Company] shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it it, and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the CertificateholdersTrustee, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)and
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(vii) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar LawPlan;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel to the Owner Trustee that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, to or on behalf of, of a Benefit Plan or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is in fact not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association [ ] shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which having an office or agency located in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, and that shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it it, and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the CertificateholdersTrustee, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same Class of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)and
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(vii) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other an employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
Section 406 of Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer"ERISA"), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of a plan subject to Section 7704 4975 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is nota "Plan"), and will not become, nor a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer person acting on behalf of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (Plan nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes using the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members assets of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of Plan to effect such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph))transfer;
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep maintain, or cause to be keptmaintained, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a register (the "Certificate Register Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein providedprovided in this Agreement. U.S. Bank National Association shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the The Owner Trustee is hereby initially appointed Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act the purpose of registering Certificates and transfers and exchanges of Certificates as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act provided in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent the Authentication Agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agentAuthentication Agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates3.8.
(c1) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuer. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Class C Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made by GTFC-2 or any other Person unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Act"), as amended, and other any applicable state securities laws or “Blue Sky” is made in accordance with the Act and laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in . In the event of that any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Personsmade, (A) it the Depositor may require a written Opinion of Counsel acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to the Depositor that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption, describing the applicable exemption and the basis therefor, from the Act and laws or is being made pursuant to the Act and laws, which Opinion of Counsel shall provide to not be an expense of the Owner Trustee and or the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons Depositor, and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held Owner Trustee shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as transferee to execute an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate investment letter substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
D attached hereto, which investment letter shall not be an expense of the Owner Trustee or the Depositor. Any Class C Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Owner Trustee, the Depositor and the Certificate Registrar against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with such federal and state laws. In addition, no transfer of a Class C Certificate shall be made by GTFC-2 or any other person to an Affiliate of the Originator without (3i) an the written Opinion of Counsel acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to the Depositor that in the event the Originator became a debtor under the United States Bankruptcy Code, a court exercising reasonable judgment under then existing statutes and precedents would not order that the transfer assets of such Certificate is being made pursuant Affiliate be consolidated with those of the Originator, which opinion shall not be an expense of the Owner Trustee or the Depositor, and (ii) written notification from each Rating Agency to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements effect that such transfer will not cause such Rating Agency to downgrade its then-current ratings, if any, of any of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else below the lower of the then-current rating or the rating assigned to such Securities as of the contrary hereinClosing Date by such Rating Agency.
(2) Any transfer, any purported transfer sale or other disposition not in compliance with the provisions of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject this Section 3.4(c) shall be deemed to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To legal force or effect whatsoever and such transferee shall be deemed to not be the extent permitted under applicable law (Certificateholder for any purpose hereunder, including, but not limited to, ERISA)the receipt of distributions on such Certificate, neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar and shall be under any liability deemed to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on have no interest whatsoever in such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirementsCertificate.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
(e) The Certificates may not be acquired by or for the account of (i) a pension, profit sharing or other employee benefit plan, or an individual retirement account or Xxxxx plan, subject to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (a "Benefit Plan"), or (ii) any entity whose underlying assets include "plan assets" (within the meaning of Department of Labor ("DOL") Regulation Section 2510.3-101, 29 C.F.R. ss. 2510.3-101 or otherwise under ERISA) by reason of a Benefit Plan's investment in the entity, including, without limitation, an insurance company acting on behalf of its general account.
(f) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar shall not be responsible for ascertaining whether any transfer complies with the registration provisions or exemptions from the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or applicable state securities law or the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended; provided, however, that if a certificate is specifically required to be delivered to the Owner Trustee by a purchaser or transferee of a Certificate, the Owner Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether it conforms to the requirements of this Agreement and shall promptly notify the party delivering the same if such certificate does not so conform.
(g) Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this Section, the Owner Trustee shall not be required to make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not be required to register, transfers or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificate.
(h) Except as provided in paragraph (i) 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 the Class B-1 and Class B-2 Certificates may not be transferred by the Owner 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 Class B-1 and Class B-2 Certificates;
(iii) ownership and transfers of registration of the Class B-1 and Class B-2 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 Owner Trustee shall deal with the Depository, Depository Participants and indirect participating firms as representatives of the Certificate Owners of the Class B-1 and Class B-2 Certificates for purposes of exercising the rights of Holders under this Agreement, and requests and directions for and votes of such representatives shall not be deemed to be inconsistent if they are made with respect to different Certificate Owners; and
(vi) the Owner 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. 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 Owner. Each Depository Participant shall only transfer Book-Entry Certificates of Certificate Owners it represents or of brokerage firms for which it acts as agent in accordance with the Depository's normal procedures.
(i) If (i) the Depositor or the Depository advises the Owner Trustee in writing that the Depository is no longer willing or able properly to discharge its responsibilities as Depository and (ii) the Owner Trustee or the Depositor is unable to locate a qualified successor or (iii) the Depositor at its sole option advises the Owner Trustee in writing that it elects to terminate the book-entry system through the Depository, the Owner Trustee shall notify all Certificate Owners, through the Depository, of the occurrence of any such event and of the availability of definitive, fully registered Class B-1 and Class B-2 Certificates (the "Definitive Certificates") to Certificate Owners requesting the same. Upon surrender to the Owner Trustee of the Class B-1 and Class B-2 Certificates by the Depository, accompanied by registration instructions from the Depository for registration, the Owner Trustee shall issue the Definitive Certificates. Neither the Depositor nor the Owner Trustee shall be liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions and may conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in relying on, such instructions. Upon the issuance of Definitive Certificates all references herein to obligations imposed upon or to be performed by the Depository shall be deemed to be imposed upon and performed by the Owner Trustee, to the extent applicable with respect to such Definitive Certificates and the Owner Trustee shall recognize the Holders of the Definitive Certificates as Certificateholders hereunder.
(j) On or prior to the Closing Date, there shall be delivered to the Depository one Class B-1 Certificate and one Class B-2 Certificate, each in registered form registered in the name of the Depository's nominee, Cede & Co., the total face amount of which represents 100% of the related Original Class B-1 Certificate Principal Balance or the Original Class B-2 Certificate Principal Balance, as applicable. Each such Class B Certificate registered in the name of the Depository's nominee shall bear the following legend: "Unless this Certificate is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation ("DTC") to the Trust or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name as requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein."
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Conseco Finance Securitizations Corp)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.05, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association [___________] shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer Depositor or its designee shall appoint another bank or trust companycompany to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement, which shall entity will agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it as successor Certificate Registrar, and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this AgreementTrustee.
(b) Upon surrender for registration Each Certificate shall bear a legend regarding reoffers, resales, pledges and transfers to the effect of transfer the legend on the form of any Certificate at attached as Exhibit A hereto, unless determined otherwise by the Corporate Trust Office of Administrator (as certified to the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant in an Officer’s Certificate) consistent with applicable law. As a condition to Section 3.07the registration of any transfer of a Certificate, the Owner Trustee prospective transferee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent be required to authenticate and deliver), represent in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by writing to the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstandingTrustee, the Owner Trustee shall not make Depositor and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuer. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect thatfollowing:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and It has neither acquired nor will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, Certificate it purchases (or any interest therein) or cause any such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged (or transferred only (Aany interest therein) to a United States person be marketed on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(307704(b)(1) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to Code, including, without limitation, an effective registration statement under the Securities Act over-the-counter-market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations.
(ii) in a transaction exempt from It will be the registration requirements beneficial owner of the Securities Act Certificate and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, corporation or grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and Certificates.
(yiii) it is not and will not be a principal purpose It understands that no subsequent transfer of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, permitted unless (A) such transfer is of a Certificate with a denomination of at least a Percentage Interest of 5.00%, (B) it shall causes its proposed transferee to provide to the Owner Trustee Trust and the Certificate Registrar a letter substantially in the form of Exhibit C hereto, or such other written statement as the Depositor information as shall prescribe and (C) the Depositor consents in writing to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositorproposed transfer, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons transfer would create a risk that the Issuer Trust or the Titling Trust would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;; provided, however, that any attempted transfer that would either cause the number of holders of direct or indirect interests in the Titling Trust to exceed 50, shall be a void transfer.
(xiv) such transferee It understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially Opinion of Counsel to the Trust that the Trust is not a publicly traded partnership taxable as set forth a corporation is dependent in Section 3.09;part on the accuracy of the representations in paragraphs (i), (ii) and (iii) above.
(xiv) It is not a Benefit Plan nor will it hold the Certificates being transferred for the account of a Benefit Plan.
(Avi) It is a Person who is either (A)(1) a citizen or resident of the United States or (2) a corporation or partnership (including any entity treated as a corporation or partnership for U.S. income tax purposes) organized in or under the laws of the United States, any state or the District of Columbia or (B) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for federal income tax purposes, regardless of source or a trust if a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision of the administration of the trust and one or more U.S. Persons (as such transferee shall term is defined in the Code) have the authority to control all substantial decisions of the trust. It agrees that it will provide to a certification of non-foreign status signed under penalty of perjury (and such other certifications, representations or Opinions of Counsel as may be requested by the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;Registrar).
(xiivii) no It understands that any purported transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance in contravention of less than 2.1% any of the entire Certificate Balance; andrestrictions and conditions in this Section shall be void, and the purported transferee in such transfer shall not be recognized by the Trust or any other Person as a Certificateholder for any purpose.
(xvc) By acceptance of any attempted Certificate, the related Certificateholder specifically agrees with and represents to the Depositor, the Trust and Certificate Registrar that no transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate shall be made unless the registration requirements of the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws are complied with, or such transfer is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act because the transfer satisfies one of the following:
(i) Such transfer is in compliance with Rule 144A, to a transferee who the depositor reasonably believes is a Qualified Institutional Buyer that is purchasing for its own account or for the account of a Qualified Institutional Buyer and to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance upon Rule 144A and (A) the depositor thereof executes and delivers to the Depositor and the Certificate Registrar, a Rule 144A certificate substantially in the form of attached as Exhibit C; andB and (B) the transferee executes and delivers to the Depositor and the Certificate Registrar an investment letter substantially in the form attached as Exhibit C.
(3ii) an Opinion of Counsel that After the appropriate holding period, such transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective exemption from registration under the Securities Act provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act and the transferee, if requested by the Depositor or the Certificate Registrar, delivers an Opinion of Counsel in form and substance satisfactory to the Depositor.
(iii) Such transfer is to an institutional accredited investor as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) of Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, such transfer is in accordance with any purported transfer applicable securities laws of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan any State or any other employee benefit plan jurisdiction, and such investor executes and delivers to the Trust and the Certificate Registrar an investment letter substantially in the form attached as Exhibit D.
(d) Upon surrender for registration of transfer or arrangement that is subject exchange of any Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Similar Law shall be void Section 3.05 and upon compliance with the provisions of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (includingthis Agreement relating to such transfer or exchange, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, (i) the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person not register, transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates and (ii) the Owner Trustee shall permit the registration, transfer and exchange of Certificates only in minimum denominations of a Percentage Interest of 5.00% and integral multiples of 5.00% in excess thereof. The Certificate Registrar shall require that every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of any Certificate that is not permitted transfer and accompanied by this Section 3.03(cIRS Form W-9 (or successor form) or for making any payments due on such Certificate other form as may be reasonably required in form satisfactory to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale Owner Trustee and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Holder or his attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
(e) The provisions of this Section generally are intended, among other things, to prevent the Trust from being characterized as a “publicly traded partnership” within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code, in reliance on Treasury Regulations Section 1.7704-1(e) and (h) and the Depositor shall take such intent into account in determining whether or not to consent to any proposed transfer of any Certificate.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Toyota Lease Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Office, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association [_______________] shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BENW-8BEN-E, W-8 ECI W-8ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuer. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement);
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not and is not acquiring such Certificate for the account of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is Plan subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code (and any corresponding provision of state law) and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code (and any corresponding provision of state law) and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the CodeCode (or any corresponding provision of state law), hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the CodeCode (and any corresponding provision of state law);
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement).
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, to or utilizing for the assets account of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is Plan subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (NISSAN AUTO RECEIVABLES Co II LLC)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.05, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association [________], shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer Depositor or its designee shall appoint another bank or trust companycompany to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement, which shall entity will agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it as successor Certificate Registrar, and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this AgreementTrustee.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.05, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.05. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, (i) the Owner Trustee shall not make make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register register, transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 fifteen (15) days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the CertificatesCertificates and (ii) the Owner Trustee shall permit the registration, transfer and exchange of Certificates only in minimum denominations of a Percentage Interest of 5.00% and integral multiples of 5.00% in excess thereof.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)and
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(vii) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar LawPlan;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel to the Owner Trustee that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, to a Non-U.S. Person or to or on behalf of, of a Benefit Plan or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is in fact not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
(e) No transfer of a Certificate or any interest therein shall be made unless (i) the holder of such Certificate shall have first surrendered such Certificate to the Certificate Registrar for registration of transfer, or (ii) in the case of any such Certificate which shall have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen, the holder of such Certificate shall have first complied with the applicable provisions of Section 3.04.
(f) No transfer of a Certificate or any interest therein shall be made unless each prospective transferee represents and warrants, with respect to itself and each prospective beneficial owner of the Certificate, that it is not a member of an “expanded group” (within the meaning of the Treasury Regulations issued under Section 385 of the Code) that includes a domestic corporation (as determined for U.S. federal income tax purposes) or a “controlled partnership” (within the meaning of the Treasury Regulations issued under Section 385 of the Code) of such expanded group where any member of such “expanded group” directly or indirectly (through one or more entities that are treated for U.S. federal income tax purposes as partnerships, disregarded entities, or grantor trusts) owns Notes (other than Retained Notes).
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Toyota Auto Finance Receivables LLC)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Deutsche Bank National Association Trust Company Americas shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In Registrar (the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as “Certificate Registrar”). No certificate may be sold, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice transferred, assigned, participated, pledged, or otherwise disposed of to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act any Person except in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it Section 3.11 and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee any attempted transfer in violation of Section 3.11 shall be null and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this void. 1300581 05134611 7 2005-1 Trust Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8, and upon compliance with the provisions of this Agreement relating to such transfer, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount class and Certificate Percentage Interest dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a HolderCertificateholder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates3.8.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied writing, with such signature guaranteed by IRS Form W-8 BENa member firm of the New York Stock Exchange, W-8 ECI a commercial bank or W-9, as applicable, and trust company or an “eligible guarantor institution” with membership or participation in a Securities Transfer Agents Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other documentation “signature guarantee program” as may be required determined by the Owner Trustee Certificate Registrar in order to comply with applicable lawaddition to, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001or substitution for, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26STAMP, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation all in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the IssuerExchange Act. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
(e) The preceding provisions of this Section 3.4 notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar need not register any transfer or exchange of Certificates for a period of fifteen (15) days preceding any Payment Date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, no transfer (or purported transfer) of any Certificate (or any economic interest therein, including any contract described in Treasury Regulation section 1.7704-1(a)(2)(i)(B)) shall be effective, and any such transfer (or purported transfer) shall be void ab initio, if after such transfer (or purported transfer) there would be more than 50 Certificateholders (where, for purposes of determining the number of Certificateholders, a person (beneficial owner) owning an interest in a partnership, grantor trust, or S corporation (“flow-through entity”), that owns, directly or through other flow-through entities, an interest in the Trust, is treated as a Certificateholder if more than 50 percent of the value of such beneficial owner’s interest in the flow-through entity is attributable to the flow-through entity’s interest (direct or indirect) in the Trust) or such transfer would otherwise cause the Trust to become a publicly traded partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes;
(g) No transfer (or purported transfer) of a Certificate (or economic interest therein), whether to another Certificateholder or to a person who is not a Certificateholder, shall 1300581 05134611 8 2005-1 Trust Agreement be effective, and any such transfer (or purported transfer) shall be void ab initio, and no person shall otherwise become a Certificateholder, and none of the Trust, the Administrator or any of the Certificateholders will recognize such transfer (or purported transfer), unless the transferee has first represented and warranted in writing to the Trust and the Certificateholders that:
(1) it is acquiring the Certificates for its own account and is the sole beneficial owner of such Certificates;
(2) the transfer is not being effected on or through (x) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(a)(1) of the Code, including without limitation, an over-the-counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations or (y) a “secondary market” or “substantial equivalent thereof” within the meaning of Section 7704(a)(2) of the Code and any proposed, temporary or final Treasury regulations thereunder; and
(3) such transfer will not cause the Trust to be classified as a publicly traded partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes, and such purchaser or transferee will not take any action, including any subsequent disposition of such Certificates or economic interest therein, that would cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (M&i Dealer Auto Securitization LLC)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Wilmington Trust Company shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association Wilmington Trust Company shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which (Nissan 2003-A Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it it, and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the CertificateholdersTrustee, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)and
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(vii) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other an employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
Section 406 of Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer"ERISA"), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of a plan subject to Section 7704 4975 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under a governmental plan (as defined in Section 7704 3(32) of the Code;
(viiiERISA) it either (A) is notsubject to any federal, and will not becomestate or local law which is, to a partnershipmaterial extent, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior similar to the time foregoing provisions of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (ERISA or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Ownera "Plan"), such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer nor a person acting on behalf of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (Plan nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes using the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members assets of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of Plan to effect such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph))transfer;
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel to the Owner Trustee that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, to or on behalf of, of a Plan or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. (Nissan 2003-A Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is in fact not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Nissan Auto Receivables 2003-a Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep maintain, or cause to be keptmaintained, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a register (the "Certificate Register Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein providedprovided in this Agreement. U.S. Bank National Association shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the The Owner Trustee is hereby initially appointed Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act the purpose of registering Certificates and transfers and exchanges of Certificates as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act provided in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent the Authentication Agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Owner
3-1 Trustee or any authenticating agentAuthentication Agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates3.8.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by (i) a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar Registrar, duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Lawwriting, and (bii) each such Certificateholder is a representation letter and shall deemed to be certification in the parties with form of Exhibit C hereto, duly executed by the power and authority to control the Issuertransferee Holder. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
(e) The Certificates may not be acquired by or for the account of (i) an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA")) that is subject to the provisions of Title 1 of ERISA, (ii) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include "plan assets" (within the meaning of Department of Labor ("DOL") Regulation Section 2510.3-101, 29 C.F.R. ss. 2510.3-101 or otherwise under ERISA) by reason of a plan's investment in the entity, including, without limitation, an insurance company acting on behalf of its general account; provided, however, that a Certificate or an interest therein may be transferred to an insurance company acting on behalf of its general account if such insurance company represents and covenants in writing to the Company, the Owner Trustee, the Underwriters and the Servicer that (i) on the date of such transfer, less than 25% of the assets of such general account (as reasonably determined by such insurance company) constitute "plan assets" for purposes of Title I of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Code, (ii) the purchase and holding of such Certificate are eligible for exemptive relief under Sections (1) and (3) of Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 95-60 and (iii) if, after the initial acquisition of such Certificate, at any time during any calendar quarter (A) 25% or more of the assets of such general account (as reasonably determined by such insurance company no less frequently than each calendar quarter) constitute "plan assets" for purposes of Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and no exemption or exception from the prohibited transaction rules applies to the continued holding of such Certificate under Section 401(c) of ERISA and the final regulations thereunder or under an exemption or regulation issued by the DOL under ERISA or (B) the Company, the Owner Trustee, the Underwriters or the Servicer furnishes to the insurance company an opinion of counsel to the effect that the holding of such Certificate in the insurance company's general account causes the assets of the Trust to be considered "plan assets" (within the meaning of DOL Regulation Section 2510.3-101, 29 C.F.R. ss. 2510.3-101 or otherwise under ERISA), then such insurance company will dispose of all of the Certificates then held in its general account by the end of the next following calendar quarter.
(f) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar shall not be responsible for ascertaining whether any transfer complies with the registration provisions or exemptions from the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, applicable state securities law or the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, or the exemption provisions of ERISA; provided, however, that if a certificate is specifically required to be delivered to the Owner Trustee by a purchaser or transferee of a Certificate, the Owner Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether it conforms to the requirements of this Agreement and shall promptly notify the party delivering the same if such certificate does not so conform.
(g) Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this Section, the Owner Trustee shall not be required to make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not be required to register, transfers or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificate.
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association ______________________ shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause ___________________ as its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like class and aggregate face amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied writing, with such signature guaranteed by IRS Form W-8 BENa member firm of the New York Stock Exchange, W-8 ECI a commercial bank or W-9, as applicable, and trust company or an "eligible guarantor institution" with membership or participation in STAMP or such other documentation "signature guarantee program" as may be required determined by the Owner Trustee Certificate Registrar in order to comply with applicable lawaddition to, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001or substitution for, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26STAMP, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation all in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the IssuerExchange Act. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee or Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.. The preceding provisions of this Section 3.4 notwithstanding, Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar need not register any transfer or exchange of Certificates for a period of fifteen (15) days preceding any Distribution Date for any payment with respect to the Certificates. TRUST AGREEMENT
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association ______________________ shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause ___________________ as its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like class and aggregate face amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied writing, with such signature guaranteed by IRS Form W-8 BENa member firm of the New York Stock Exchange, W-8 ECI a commercial bank or W-9, as applicable, and trust company or an "eligible guarantor institution" with membership or participation in STAMP or such other documentation "signature guarantee program" as may be required determined by the Owner Trustee Certificate Registrar in order to comply with applicable lawaddition to, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001or substitution for, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26STAMP, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation all in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the IssuerExchange Act. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee or Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.. The preceding provisions of this Section 3.4 notwithstanding, Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar need not register any transfer or
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar Trustee shall keep maintain, or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officemaintained, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07Certificate, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated interest and of the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. same Class.
(b) At the option of a HolderCertificateholder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations and the same aggregate interest in the Trust Fund and of a like aggregate amount the same Class, upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07of the Trustee in the City of New York where Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The preceding provisions Trustee will give prompt written notice to Certificateholders of this Section notwithstandingany change in the location of the any such office or agency. The Trustee initially designates its offices, located at 55 Water Street, 1st Floor, New York, New York 10041, for such puxxxxx. Xxx Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx xxxx xx xxxx xx Xxxxago, Illinois at the offices of the Trustee located at the Corporate Trust Office and may be kept in an electronic form capable of printing out a hard copy of the Certificate Register. Whenever any Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee shall not make execute, authenticate and deliver the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding which the due date for any payment with respect Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to the Certificates.
(c) receive. Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder thereof or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuer. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirementswriting.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Credit Suisse First Boston Mortgage Securities Corp)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer [ ] shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association [ ] shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the CertificateholdersTrustee, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement);
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(viv) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(viivi) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viiivii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more Certificates (or such other percentage as interests therein) are not acquired by or for the Depositor may establish prior to the time account of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704Special Pass-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the CodeThrough Entity;
(ixviii) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(xix) such transferee understands understand that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance$[0]; and
(xvxi) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement).
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
(e) For purposes of this Section 3.03, a “Special Pass-Through Entity” means a (i) grantor trust, S corporation (within the meaning of Section 1361(a)(1) of the Code), or partnership or (ii) a disregarded entity the sole owner of which is an entity described in prong (i), where more than 50% of the value of a beneficial owner’s interest in such pass through entity is attributable to the pass-through entity’s interest (including through a disregarded entity) in the Certificates (or interests therein).
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. The Chase Manhattan Bank National Association shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for No certificate may be sold, transferred, assigned, participated, pledged, or otherwise disposed of to any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act Person except in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it Section 3.11 and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee any attempted transfer in violation of Section 3.11 shall be null and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreementvoid.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8, and upon compliance with the provisions of this Agreement relating to such transfer, Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount class and Certificate Percentage Interest dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a HolderCertificateholder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates3.8.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied writing, with such signature guaranteed by IRS Form W-8 BENa member firm of the New York Stock Exchange, W-8 ECI a commercial bank or W-9, as applicable, and trust company or an "eligible guarantor institution" with membership or participation in STAMP or such other documentation "signature guarantee program" as may be required determined by the Owner Trustee Certificate Registrar in order to comply with applicable lawaddition to, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001or substitution for, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26STAMP, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation all in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the IssuerExchange Act. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee or Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
(e) The preceding provisions of this Section 3.4 notwithstanding, Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar need not register any transfer or exchange of Certificates for a period of fifteen (15) days preceding any Distribution Date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association, as Indenture Trustee, agrees to act as initial Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to this Section 3.4(a), a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers Transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association No Transfer of a Certificate shall be recognized except upon registration of such Transfer in the initial Certificate RegistrarRegister. In Promptly upon the event that Owner Trustee’s request therefor, (a) the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable provide to act the Board and the Owner Trustee a true and complete copy of the Certificate Register, and (b) the Certificate Registrar shall provide to the Board and the Owner Trustee such information regarding the Certificates and the Certificateholders as is reasonably available to the Certificate Registrar.
(c) The Certificate Registrar shall provide the Trust Collateral Agent with a list of the names and addresses of the Certificateholders on the Closing Date, to the extent such information has been provided to the Certificate Registrar and in the form provided to the Certificate Registrar on such date. Upon any Transfers of Certificates, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to notify the DepositorTrust Collateral Agent of the name and address of the transferee in writing, by facsimile, on the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt day of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this AgreementTransfer.
(bd) Upon surrender for registration of transfer Transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07in the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause the Certificate Registrar as its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like class and aggregate face amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee (or by the Certificate Registrar as its authenticating agent) or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges maintained in the city of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the CertificatesMinneapolis, Minnesota.
(ce) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer Transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by by: (i) a written instrument of transfer Transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied writing, with such signature guaranteed by IRS Form W-8 BENan “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Certificate Registrar, W-8 ECI which requirements include membership or W-9, as applicable, and participation in the Securities Transfer Agent’s Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other documentation “signature guarantee program” as may be required determined by the Owner Trustee Certificate Registrar in order addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP; and (ii) an Opinion of Counsel that the Transfer or exchange of such Certificate would not cause the Trust to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on be treated as an association or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such publicly traded partnership taxable as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuercorporation. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer Transfer or exchange shall be cancelled canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:.
(1f) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of Any Person acquiring any interest in a Certificate will furnish to the Certificates;
Person from whom it is acquiring such interest, the Trust, Certificate Registrar and the Owner Trustee, a properly executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not becomefurnish a new Form W-9, a partnershipor any successor applicable form, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust upon the expiration or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners obsolescence of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or previously delivered form) and such other percentage certifications, representations or Opinions of Counsel as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to requested by the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirementsTrustee.
(dg) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer Transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
(h) The Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or any state securities law. Subject to the provisions of Section 3.1 hereof, the Certificate Registrar shall not register the Transfer of any Certificate or unless such resale or Transfer is: (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; (ii) to the Seller; or (iii) unless it shall have received a representation letter or such other representations and an Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to the Board or the Owner Trustee to the effect that such resale or Transfer is made (A) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws, or (B) to a person who the transferor of the Certificate reasonably believes is a “qualified institutional buyer” (within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that is aware that such resale or other Transfer is being made in reliance upon Rule 144A. Until the earlier of (i) such time as the Certificates shall be registered pursuant to a registration statement filed under the Securities Act and (ii) the date three years from the later of the date of the original authentication and delivery of the Certificates and the date any Certificate was acquired from the Seller or any affiliate of the Seller, the Certificates shall bear a legend substantially to the effect set forth in the preceding two sentences. Neither the Seller, the Servicer, the Trust nor the Owner Trustee is obligated to register the Certificates under the Securities Act or to take any other action not otherwise required under this Agreement to permit the Transfer of Certificates without registration.
(i) The provisions of this Section 3.4 and of this Agreement generally are intended to prevent the Trust from being characterized as a “publicly traded partnership” within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code, in reliance on Treasury Regulations Section 1.7704-1(e) and (h), and the Certificateholders shall take such intent into account in requesting the Transfer of any Certificate.
(j) No Certificate may be sold, participated, transferred, assigned, exchanged or otherwise pledged or conveyed in whole or in part unless the Person that acquires the Certificate represents that:
(1) it is, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, either (a) a citizen or resident of the United States, (b) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state thereof or the District of Columbia which, if such entity is a tax-exempt entity, recognizes that payments with respect to the Certificate may constitute unrelated business taxable income, (c) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source, or (d) either (x) a trust for which a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over its administration and for which one or more persons described in this paragraph are able to control all substantial decisions or (y) a trust for which a valid election has been made to be treated as a United States person;
(2) it has not acquired and it will not transfer any interest in the Certificate, or cause an interest in the Certificate to be marketed, on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code and any Treasury regulations thereunder, including, without limitation, an over the counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations;
(3) (a) it is not and will not become (and, if it is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(a) (a “DRE”), its owner is not and will not become), for so long as it holds an interest in the Certificate, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (a “Flow-Thru Entity”); or (b) if it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is, or becomes, a Flow-Thru Entity, for so long as it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) is a Flow-Thru Entity and it holds an interest in the Certificate, not more than 50% of the value of any interests in it (or, if it is a DRE, its owner) will be attributable to interests in the Trust held by it;
(4) it understands that a subsequent Transfer of the Certificate will be null and void ab initio if such Transfer would cause the number of Targeted Holders to exceed ninety-five; and
(5) it understands that the Opinion of Counsel that the Trust is not a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of the representations in this Section 3.4(j).
(k) Unless (1) the Owner Trustee has received an Opinion of Counsel from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Xxxxxxx & Xxxx LLP or another nationally recognized tax counsel selected by a Certificateholder that the restriction on the proposed acquisition of a Certificate (or any interest therein) described by this subsection is no longer necessary to conclude that any such acquisition (and subsequent resale of the applicable Notes described below) will not cause the Treasury Regulations under Section 385 of the Code to apply to such Notes in a manner that could cause a material adverse effect on the Trust or the Trust to be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (2) the Treasury Regulations under Section 385 of the Code are repealed and not replaced with proposed, temporary or final Treasury Regulations that (as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel from a nationally recognized tax counsel) could affect the classification of the Notes as debt for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (i) a Section 385 Certificateholder cannot acquire a Certificate (or any interest therein) if (A) a member of any “expanded group” (as defined in Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-1(c)(4)) that includes such Section 385 Certificateholder owns any Notes or (B) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such expanded group owns any Notes and (ii) a Section 385 Certificateholder cannot hold a Certificate (or any interest therein) if (A) a member of any “expanded group” (as defined in Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-1(c)(4)) that includes such Section 385 Certificateholder acquires any Notes from the Trust, any Affiliate of the Trust or any other subsequent transferor of a Note or (B) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such expanded group acquires any Notes from the Trust, any Affiliate of the Trust or any other subsequent transferor of a Note. The preceding sentence shall not apply if the Noteholder or potential Noteholder is a U.S. corporate member of the same U.S. corporate “affiliated group” (as defined in Section 1504 of the Code) filing a consolidated federal income tax return that includes each of any applicable related Section 385 Certificateholders (including in the case of a partnership, the relevant “expanded group partner” (as defined in Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12))). If a Certificateholder (or holder of an interest in a Certificate) fails to comply with the foregoing requirements, the Trust and Owner Trustee are authorized, at their discretion, to compel such Certificateholder (or holder of an interest in a Certificate) to sell its Certificate (or interest therein) to a Person whose ownership complies with this subsection so long as such sale does not otherwise cause a material adverse effect on the Trust or cause the Trust to be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Wilmington Trust Company shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. Bank National Association Wilmington Trust Company shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, ,which (Nissan 2004-B Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it it, and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the CertificateholdersTrustee, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)and
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(vii) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other an employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
Section 406 of Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer"ERISA"), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of a plan subject to Section 7704 4975 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under a governmental plan (as defined in Section 7704 3(32) of the Code;
(viiiERISA) it either (A) is notsubject to any federal, and will not becomestate or local law which is, to a partnershipmaterial extent, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior similar to the time foregoing provisions of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (ERISA or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Ownera "Plan"), such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer nor a person acting on behalf of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (Plan nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes using the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members assets of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of Plan to effect such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph))transfer;
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel to the Owner Trustee that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, to or on behalf of, of a Plan or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. (Nissan 2004-B Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is in fact not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Nissan Auto Receivables 2004-B Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. The Chase Manhattan Bank National Association shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which having an office or agency located in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, and that shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it it, and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the CertificateholdersTrustee, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder Holder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with applicable law, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the Issuerwriting. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar Owner Trustee shall have received:
(1) a certification letter representation from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit EXHIBIT B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)and
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(vii) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other an employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
Section 406 of Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer"ERISA"), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of a plan subject to Section 7704 4975 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is nota "Plan"), and will not become, nor a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer person acting on behalf of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (Plan nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes using the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members assets of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of Plan to effect such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph))transfer;
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit EXHIBIT C; and
(3) an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel to the Owner Trustee that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, to or on behalf of, of a Plan or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is in fact not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at its Corporate Trust Officethe office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. U.S. The Chase Manhattan Bank National Association shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. In the event that the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall promptly give written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, which shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders, to act as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Certificate Registrar or other office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause The Chase Manhattan Bank as its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations of a like class and aggregate face amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.073.8. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Certificates.
(c) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied writing, with such signature guaranteed by IRS Form W-8 BENa member firm of the New York Stock Exchange, W-8 ECI a commercial bank or W-9, as applicable, and trust company or an "eligible guarantor institution" with membership or participation in STAMP or such other documentation "signature guarantee program" as may be required determined by the Owner Trustee Certificate Registrar in order to comply with applicable lawaddition to, including the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001or substitution for, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26STAMP, 2001) and its implementing regulations, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Law”). Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or 6 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each Person who opens an account. For a non-individual Person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any such information received. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Owner Trustee has received the transfer documentation required hereunder. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation all in accordance with the terms hereof. Further, the parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) each Certificateholder owning twenty five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Issuer is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Issuer for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Law, and (b) each such Certificateholder is and shall deemed to be the parties with the power and authority to control the IssuerExchange Act. Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee or Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) to any transferee shall be made unless the Certificate Registrar shall have received:
(1) a certification letter from the transferee of such Certificate (or interest therein) substantially in the form of Exhibit B (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer will not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on the U.S. federal income tax consequences to any Noteholder with respect to holding a Note) to the effect that:
(i) such transferee acknowledges that the Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities law of any jurisdiction;
(ii) such transferee acknowledges that if in the future it decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Certificates, such Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (A) to a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other securities or “Blue Sky” laws;
(iii) such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) is not a Non-U.S. Person; 7 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(iv) in the event of any subsequent transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein), such transferee (and, if different, the Certificate Owner) shall comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code (including with respect to deducting and withholding from the purchase price paid in respect of such Certificate unless the transferee obtained a certificate providing for an exemption from such withholding);
(v) such transferee is not a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law;
(vi) after such transfer (or purported transfer), the Issuer would not have more than 95 direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in the Certificates;
(vii) no such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code or would make the Issuer ineligible for “safe harbor” treatment under Section 7704 of the Code;
(viii) it either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code;
(ix) if such transferee is acquiring any Certificate (or interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Depositor, which consent shall be granted unless the Depositor determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Issuer would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation;
(x) such transferee understands that the Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in Section 3.09;
(xi) (A) such transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and (B) if such transferee is not the Certificate Owner, such Certificate Owner shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuer to comply with Sections 6221 8 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement) through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code and, to the extent necessary for the Issuer to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code;
(xii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiii) no transfer of a Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation) (for purposes of determining the Issuer’s ownership interests in this paragraph, taking any Retained Notes into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuer being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Retained Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Retained Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph));
(xiv) no transfer of the Certificates (or any interest therein) is a transfer of a Certificate (or any interest therein) with a Certificate Balance of less than 2.1% of the entire Certificate Balance; and
(xv) any attempted transfer that would cause the number of direct or indirect beneficial owners of Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 95 or otherwise cause the Issuer to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer. 9 (NAROT 2018-C Amended & Restated Trust Agreement)
(2) a representation from the transferor of such Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C; and
(3) an Opinion of Counsel that the transfer of such Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Certificate to, on behalf of, or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to Similar Law shall be void and of no effect. To the extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA), neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be under any liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any Certificate that is not permitted by this Section 3.03(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to the Certificateholder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate 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.. TRUST AGREEMENT
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