AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT among HYUNDAI ABS FUNDING CORPORATION, as Depositor WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, as Owner Trustee and HYUNDAI MOTOR FINANCE COMPANY, as Administrator Dated as of March 15, 2006
Exhibit 4.1
Execution Copy
AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT
among
HYUNDAI ABS FUNDING CORPORATION,
as Depositor
as Depositor
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
as Owner Trustee
as Owner Trustee
and
HYUNDAI MOTOR FINANCE COMPANY,
as Administrator
Dated as of March 15, 2006
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE 1. DEFINITIONS | 1 | |||||||
Section 1.01 | Capitalized Terms | 1 | ||||||
Section 1.02 | Other Definitional Provisions | 3 | ||||||
ARTICLE 2. ORGANIZATION | 4 | |||||||
Section 2.01 | Name | 4 | ||||||
Section 2.02 | Office | 4 | ||||||
Section 2.03 | Purposes and Powers | 4 | ||||||
Section 2.04 | Appointment of Owner Trustee | 5 | ||||||
Section 2.05 | Initial Capital Contribution of Trust Estate | 5 | ||||||
Section 2.06 | Declaration of Trust | 5 | ||||||
Section 2.07 | Title to Trust Property | 6 | ||||||
Section 2.08 | Situs of Trust | 6 | ||||||
Section 2.09 | Representations, Warranties and Covenants of the Depositor | 6 | ||||||
Section 2.10 | Federal Income Tax Allocations | 7 | ||||||
ARTICLE 3. TRUST CERTIFICATES AND TRANSFER OF INTERESTS | 7 | |||||||
Section 3.01 | Initial Ownership | 7 | ||||||
Section 3.02 | The Trust Certificates | 7 | ||||||
Section 3.03 | Execution, Authentication and Delivery of Trust Certificates | 8 | ||||||
Section 3.04 | Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates | 8 | ||||||
Section 3.05 | Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Certificates | 9 | ||||||
Section 3.06 | Persons Deemed Owners | 9 | ||||||
Section 3.07 | Access to List of Certificateholders’ Names and Addresses | 9 | ||||||
Section 3.08 | Maintenance of Office or Agency | 10 | ||||||
Section 3.09 | Appointment of Paying Agent | 10 | ||||||
Section 3.10 | Form of Trust Certificates | 10 | ||||||
Section 3.11 | Transfer Restrictions | 11 | ||||||
Section 3.12 | Legending of Trust Certificates | 14 | ||||||
Section 3.13 | Authenticating Agent | 15 | ||||||
Section 3.14 | Actions of Certificateholders | 16 | ||||||
ARTICLE 4. ACTIONS BY OWNER TRUSTEE | 17 |
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Section 4.01 | Prior Notice with Respect to Certain Matters | 17 | ||||||
Section 4.02 | Action by Servicer with Respect to Certain Matters | 18 | ||||||
Section 4.03 | Action by Certificateholders with Respect to Bankruptcy | 19 | ||||||
Section 4.04 | Restrictions on Servicer’s Power | 19 | ||||||
Section 4.05 | Majority Control | 19 | ||||||
ARTICLE 5. APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS; CERTAIN DUTIES | 19 | |||||||
Section 5.01 | Establishment of Trust Account | 19 | ||||||
Section 5.02 | Application of Trust Funds | 19 | ||||||
Section 5.03 | Method of Payment | 20 | ||||||
Section 5.04 | Accounting and Reports to Certificateholders, the Internal Revenue Service and Others | 20 | ||||||
Section 5.05 | Signature on Returns; Tax Matters Partner | 20 | ||||||
Section 5.06 | Duties of Depositor on Behalf of Trust | 21 | ||||||
ARTICLE 6. AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF OWNER TRUSTEE | 21 | |||||||
Section 6.01 | General Authority | 21 | ||||||
Section 6.02 | General Duties | 21 | ||||||
Section 6.03 | Action upon Instruction | 21 | ||||||
Section 6.04 | No Duties Except as Specified in this Agreement or in Instructions | 22 | ||||||
Section 6.05 | No Action Except Under Specified Documents or Instructions | 23 | ||||||
Section 6.06 | Restrictions | 23 | ||||||
ARTICLE 7. CONCERNING THE OWNER TRUSTEE | 23 | |||||||
Section 7.01 | Acceptance of Trusts and Duties | 23 | ||||||
Section 7.02 | Furnishing of Documents | 24 | ||||||
Section 7.03 | Representations and Warranties | 24 | ||||||
Section 7.04 | Reliance; Advice of Counsel | 25 | ||||||
Section 7.05 | Not Acting in Individual Capacity | 25 | ||||||
Section 7.06 | Owner Trustee Not Liable for Trust Certificates or for Receivables | 26 | ||||||
Section 7.07 | Owner Trustee May Own Trust Certificates and Notes | 26 | ||||||
Section 7.08 | Doing Business in Other Jurisdictions | 26 |
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Section 7.09 | Paying Agent; Authenticating Agent | 27 | ||||||
ARTICLE 8. COMPENSATION OF OWNER TRUSTEE | 27 | |||||||
Section 8.01 | Owner Trustee’s Fees and Expenses | 27 | ||||||
Section 8.02 | Indemnification | 27 | ||||||
Section 8.03 | Payments to the Owner Trustee | 27 | ||||||
ARTICLE 9. TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT | 28 | |||||||
Section 9.01 | Termination of Trust Agreement | 28 | ||||||
ARTICLE 10. SUCCESSOR OWNER TRUSTEES AND ADDITIONAL OWNER TRUSTEES | 29 | |||||||
Section 10.01 | Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee | 29 | ||||||
Section 10.02 | Resignation or Removal of Owner Trustee | 29 | ||||||
Section 10.03 | Successor Owner Trustee | 30 | ||||||
Section 10.04 | Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee | 30 | ||||||
Section 10.05 | Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee | 30 | ||||||
ARTICLE 11. MISCELLANEOUS | 32 | |||||||
Section 11.01 | Supplements and Amendments | 32 | ||||||
Section 11.02 | No Legal Title to Trust Estate in Certificateholders | 33 | ||||||
Section 11.03 | Limitations on Rights of Others | 33 | ||||||
Section 11.04 | Notices | 33 | ||||||
Section 11.05 | Severability | 34 | ||||||
Section 11.06 | Separate Counterparts | 34 | ||||||
Section 11.07 | Successors and Assigns | 34 | ||||||
Section 11.08 | Covenants of the Depositor | 34 | ||||||
Section 11.09 | No Petition | 34 | ||||||
Section 11.10 | No Recourse | 34 | ||||||
Section 11.11 | Headings | 35 | ||||||
Section 11.12 | GOVERNING LAW | 35 | ||||||
Section 11.13 | Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx | 35 |
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Exhibit A
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Form of Trust Certificate | A-1 | |||
Exhibit B
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Assignment | B-1 | |||
Exhibit C
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Form of Transferee Certificate | C-1 | |||
Exhibit D
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Form of Certificate of Trust of Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2006-A | D-1 |
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This AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT, dated as of March 15, 2006, is between HYUNDAI ABS
FUNDING CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation, as depositor (the “Depositor”), WILMINGTON
TRUST COMPANY, a Delaware banking corporation, acting hereunder not in its individual capacity but
solely as owner trustee (the “Owner Trustee”) and HYUNDAI MOTOR FINANCE COMPANY, a
California corporation, as administrator (the “Administrator”).
WHEREAS, on November 4, 2005, the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Administrator entered
into a Trust Agreement (the “Original Trust Agreement”); and
WHEREAS, the parties hereto wish to amend and restate the Original Trust Agreement in its
entirety;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing, and other good and valuable consideration,
the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto amend and restate the Original
Trust Agreement in its entirety and agree as follows:
ARTICLE 1.
DEFINITIONS
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.01 Capitalized Terms. For all purposes of this Agreement, the following
terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
“Administration Agreement” shall mean the Owner Trust Administration Agreement dated
as of March 15, 2006, among the Trust, Hyundai Motor Finance Company, as Administrator and
Citibank, N.A., as Indenture Trustee, as amended, supplemented, amended and restated or otherwise
modified from time to time.
“Administrator” shall mean Hyundai Motor Finance Company.
“Agreement” shall mean this Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, as the same may be
amended and supplemented from time to time.
“Authenticating Agent” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.13.
“Benefit Plan Investor” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.11.
“Certificate Distribution Account” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 5.01.
“Certificate of Trust” shall mean the Certificate of Trust substantially in the form
of Exhibit D filed for the Trust pursuant to Section 3810(a) of the Statutory Trust Act.
“Certificate Percentage Interest” shall mean with respect to any Trust Certificate,
the percentage interest of ownership in the Trust represented thereby as set forth on the face
thereof.
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“Certificate Register” and “Certificate Registrar” shall mean the register
mentioned in and the registrar appointed pursuant to Section 3.04.
“Certificateholder” or “Holder” shall mean a Person in whose name a Trust
Certificate is registered.
“Code” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the Treasury
Regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Corporate Trust Office” shall mean, with respect to the Owner Trustee, the principal
corporate trust office of the Owner Trustee located at Xxxxxx Square North, 0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx 00000-0000, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration, or at such
other address in the State of Delaware as the Owner Trustee may designate by notice to the
Certificateholders and the Depositor, or the principal corporate trust office of any successor
Owner Trustee at the address (which shall be in the State of Delaware) designated by such successor
Owner Trustee by notice to the Certificateholders and the Depositor.
“Definitive Trust Certificates” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.10.
“Depositor” shall mean Hyundai ABS Funding Corporation and its successors, in its
capacity as depositor hereunder.
“ERISA” shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.
“Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
“Expenses” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.02.
“Indemnified Parties” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.02.
“Indenture” shall mean the Indenture, dated as of March 15, 2006, between the Trust
and Citibank, N.A., as Indenture Trustee, as amended, supplemented, amended and restated or
otherwise modified from time to time.
“Indenture Trustee” shall mean Citibank, N.A., a national banking association.
“Owner Trustee” shall mean Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware banking corporation,
not in its individual capacity but solely as owner trustee under this Agreement, and any successor
Owner Trustee hereunder.
“Paying Agent” shall mean any paying agent or co paying agent appointed pursuant to
Section 3.09 and shall initially be Citibank, N.A.
“Person” shall mean any individual, corporation, estate, partnership, limited
liability company, joint venture, association, joint stock company, trust or business trust
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(including any beneficiary thereof), unincorporated organization or government or any agency
or political subdivision thereof.
“Record Date” shall mean, with respect to a Payment Date, the close of business on the
day immediately preceding such Payment Date.
“Sale and Servicing Agreement” shall mean the Sale and Servicing Agreement dated as of
March 15, 2006, among the Depositor, Hyundai Motor Finance Company, as Seller and Servicer, the
Trust and the Indenture Trustee, as amended, supplemented, amended and restated or otherwise
modified from time to time.
“SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Secretary of State” shall mean the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware.
“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
“Statutory Trust Act” shall mean Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the Delaware Code, 12 Del.
Code ss. 3801 et seq., as the same may be amended from time to time.
“Treasury Regulations” shall mean regulations, including proposed or temporary
Regulations, promulgated under the Code. References herein to specific provisions of proposed or
temporary regulations shall include analogous provisions of final Treasury Regulations or other
successor Treasury Regulations.
“Trust” shall mean the trust established by this Agreement.
“Trust Certificate” shall mean a certificate evidencing the beneficial interest of a
Certificateholder in the Trust, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A.
“Trust Estate” shall mean all right, title and interest of the Trust in and to the
property and rights assigned to the Trust pursuant to Article II of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, all funds on deposit from time to time in the Trust Accounts and the Certificate
Distribution Account, and all other property of the Trust from time to time, including any rights
of the Owner Trustee and the Trust pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the
Administration Agreement.
Section 1.02 Other Definitional Provisions.
(a) Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them
in the Sale and Servicing Agreement or, if not defined therein, in the Indenture.
(b) All terms defined in this Agreement shall have the defined meanings when used in any
certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant hereto unless otherwise defined therein.
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(c) As used in this Agreement and in any certificate or other document made or delivered
pursuant hereto or thereto, accounting terms not defined in this Agreement or in any such
certificate or other document, and accounting terms partly defined in this Agreement or in any such
certificate or other document to the extent not defined, shall have the respective meanings given
to them under generally accepted accounting principles. To the extent that the definitions of
accounting terms in this Agreement or in any such certificate or other document are inconsistent
with the meanings of such terms under generally accepted accounting principles, the definitions
contained in this Agreement or in any such certificate or other document shall control.
(d) The words “hereof,” “herein,” “hereunder” and words of similar import when used in this
Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this
Agreement; Section and Exhibit references contained in this Agreement are references to Sections
and Exhibits in or to this Agreement unless otherwise specified; “or” includes “and/or”; and the
term “including” shall mean “including without limitation”.
(e) The definitions contained in this Agreement are applicable to the singular and plural
forms of such terms and to the masculine, feminine and neuter genders of such terms.
(f) Any agreement, instrument or statute defined or referred to herein or in any instrument or
certificate delivered in connection herewith means such agreement, instrument or statute as from
time to time amended, modified or supplemented and includes (in the case of agreements or
instruments) references to all attachments thereto and instruments incorporated therein; references
to a Person are also to its permitted successors and assigns.
ARTICLE 2.
ORGANIZATION
ORGANIZATION
Section 2.01 Name. The Trust created hereby shall be known as “Hyundai Auto
Receivables Trust 2006-A,” in which name the Owner Trustee may conduct the business of the Trust,
make and execute contracts and other instruments on behalf of the Trust and xxx and be sued.
Section 2.02 Office. The office of the Trust shall be in care of the Owner Trustee at
the Corporate Trust Office or at such other address in Delaware as the Owner Trustee may designate
by written notice to the Certificateholders and the Depositor.
Section 2.03 Purposes and Powers. The purpose of the Trust is to engage in the
following activities and the Trust shall have the power and authority:
(a) to issue the Notes pursuant to the Indenture and the Trust Certificates pursuant to this
Agreement and to sell, transfer and exchange the Notes and the Trust Certificates and to pay
interest on and principal on the Notes and distributions on the Trust Certificates, all in
accordance with the Basic Documents;
(b) with the proceeds of the sale of the Notes and the Trust Certificates, to purchase the
Receivables, to fund the Reserve Account, to pay the organizational, start-up and
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transactional expenses of the Trust and to pay the balance of such proceeds to the Depositor
pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement;
(c) to assign, grant, transfer, pledge, mortgage and convey the Trust Estate pursuant to the
Indenture and to hold, manage and distribute to the Certificateholders pursuant to the terms of
this Agreement and the Sale and Servicing Agreement any portion of the Trust Estate released from
the Lien of, and remitted to the Trust pursuant to, the Indenture;
(d) to enter into and perform its obligations under the Basic Documents to which it is to be a
party;
(e) to engage in those activities, including entering into agreements, that are necessary,
suitable or convenient to accomplish the foregoing or are incidental thereto or connected
therewith;
(f) to enter into derivative transactions with the approval of the Rating Agencies (or
satisfaction of the Rating Agency Condition) at any time or from time to time after the issuance of
the Notes. The notional amount of those derivatives may (but need not) exceed the amount of the
Notes and need not relate to or counteract risks associated with the Notes or the Receivables;
provided, however, that any payments to the applicable counterparties to the derivative
transactions on any Payment Date are to be made only after all required payments to the Noteholders
and deposits to the Reserve Account on such Payment Date;
(g) subject to compliance with the Basic Documents, to engage in such other activities as may
be required in connection with conservation of the Trust Estate and the making of distributions to
the Certificateholders and the Noteholders.
The Trust is hereby authorized to engage in the foregoing activities. The Trust shall not
engage in any activity other than in connection with the foregoing or other than as required or
authorized by the terms of this Agreement or the Basic Documents.
Section 2.04 Appointment of Owner Trustee. The Depositor hereby appoints the Owner
Trustee as trustee of the Trust effective as of the date hereof, to have all the rights, powers and
duties set forth herein.
Section 2.05 Initial Capital Contribution of Trust Estate. The Depositor hereby
sells, assigns, transfers, conveys and sets over to the Owner Trustee, as of the date hereof, the
sum of $1.00. The Owner Trustee hereby acknowledges receipt in trust from the Depositor, as of the
date hereof, of the foregoing contribution, which shall constitute the initial Trust Estate and
shall be deposited in the Certificate Distribution Account. The Depositor shall pay organizational
expenses of the Trust as they may arise or shall, upon the request of the Owner Trustee, promptly
reimburse the Owner Trustee for any such expenses paid by the Owner Trustee.
Section 2.06 Declaration of Trust. The Owner Trustee hereby declares that it will
hold the Trust Estate in trust upon and subject to the conditions set forth herein for the use and
benefit of the Certificateholders, subject to the obligations of the Trust under the Basic
Documents. It is the intention of the parties hereto that the Trust constitute a statutory trust
under the Statutory Trust Act and that this Agreement constitute the governing instrument of such
statutory trust. It
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is the intention of the parties hereto that, for income and franchise tax purposes, until the
Trust Certificates are held by more than one Person, the Trust will be disregarded as an entity
separate from the Depositor (or another Person that beneficially owns all of the Trust
Certificates) and the Notes will be characterized as debt. At such time that the Trust
Certificates are held by more than one Person, it is the intention of the parties hereto that, for
income and franchise tax purposes, the Trust shall be treated as a partnership, with the assets of
the partnership being the Receivables and other assets held by the Trust, the partners of the
partnership, being the Certificateholders, and the Notes being debt of the partnership. The
Depositor and the Certificateholders by acceptance of a Trust Certificate agree to such treatment
and agree to take no action inconsistent with such treatment. The parties agree that, unless
otherwise required by appropriate tax authorities, until the Trust Certificates are held by more
than one Person the Trust will not file or cause to be filed annual or other necessary tax returns,
reports and other forms inconsistent with the characterization of the Trust as a disregarded entity
of its owner. Effective as of the date hereof, the Owner Trustee shall have all rights, powers and
duties set forth herein and in the Statutory Trust Act with respect to accomplishing the purposes
of the Trust.
Section 2.07 Title to Trust Property. Subject to the Indenture, legal title to all
the Trust Estate shall be vested at all times in the Trust as a separate legal entity except where
applicable law in any jurisdiction requires title to any part of the Trust Estate to be vested in a
trustee or trustees, in which case title shall be deemed to be vested in the Owner Trustee, a
co-trustee or a separate trustee, as the case may be.
Section 2.08 Situs of Trust. The Trust will be located and administered in the State
of Delaware. All bank accounts maintained by the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Trust shall be
located in the State of Delaware or the State of New York. The Trust shall not have any employees;
provided, however, that nothing herein shall restrict or prohibit the Owner Trustee from having
employees within or without the State of Delaware. Payments will be received by the Trust only in
Delaware or New York, and payments will be made by the Trust only from Delaware or New York. The
only office of the Trust will be at the Corporate Trust Office in the State of Delaware.
Section 2.09 Representations, Warranties and Covenants of the Depositor. The
Depositor hereby represents and warrants to the Owner Trustee that:
(a) The Depositor is duly organized and validly existing as a corporation in good standing
under the laws of the State of Delaware, with power and authority to own its properties and to
conduct its business as such properties are currently owned and such business is presently
conducted.
(b) The Depositor is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in good standing
and has obtained all necessary licenses and approvals in all jurisdictions in which the ownership
or lease of its property or the conduct of its business shall require such qualifications.
(c) The Depositor has the corporate power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement
and to carry out its terms; the Depositor has full power and authority to sell and assign the
property to be sold and assigned to and deposited with the Trust and the
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Depositor has duly authorized such sale and assignment and deposit to the Trust by all
necessary corporate action; and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement have been
duly authorized by the Depositor by all necessary corporate action.
(d) The Depositor has duly executed and delivered this Agreement, and this Agreement
constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Depositor, enforceable against the
Depositor, in accordance with its terms, except as such enforcement may be limited by applicable
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar laws relating to or limiting creditors’
rights generally or by general equitable principles.
(e) The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the fulfillment of
the terms hereof do not conflict with, result in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of,
or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time) a default under, the articles and bylaws of
the Depositor, or any indenture, agreement or other instrument to which the Depositor is a party or
by which it is bound; nor result in the creation or imposition of any Lien upon any of its
properties pursuant to the terms of any such indenture, agreement or other instrument (other than
pursuant to the Basic Documents); nor violate any law or, to the best of the Depositor’s knowledge,
any order, rule or regulation applicable to the Depositor of any court or of any federal or state
regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction
over the Depositor or its properties.
(f) There are no proceedings or investigations pending or, to the knowledge of the Depositor,
threatened before any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental
instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Depositor or its properties (i) asserting the
invalidity of this Agreement, (ii) seeking to prevent the consummation of any of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement or (iii) seeking any determination or ruling that might materially
and adversely affect the performance by the Depositor of its obligations under, or the validity or
enforceability of, this Agreement.
(g) The representations and warranties of the Depositor in Section 3.02 of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement are true and correct.
Section 2.10 Federal Income Tax Allocations. If the Trust Certificates are held by
more than one Person, for federal income tax purposes each item of income, gain, loss, credit and
deduction for a month shall be allocated to the Certificateholders as of the first Record Date
following the end of such month in proportion to their Certificate Percentage Interests on such
Record Date. The Trust (or the Administrator in accordance with the Administration Agreement and
Section 5.04) is authorized to modify the allocations in this paragraph if necessary or
appropriate, in its sole discretion, for the allocations to fairly reflect the economic income,
gain or loss to the Certificateholders or otherwise comply with the requirements of the Code.
ARTICLE 3.
TRUST CERTIFICATES AND TRANSFER OF INTERESTS
TRUST CERTIFICATES AND TRANSFER OF INTERESTS
Section 3.01 Initial Ownership. Upon the formation of the Trust by the contribution
by the Depositor pursuant to Section 2.05 and until the issuance of the Trust Certificates, the
Depositor shall be the sole beneficiary of the Trust.
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Section 3.02 The Trust Certificates. The Trust Certificates shall be executed on
behalf of the Trust by manual or facsimile signature of an authorized officer of the Owner Trustee.
Trust Certificates bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were, at the time
when such signatures shall have been affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of the Trust, shall be
validly issued and entitled to the benefit of this Agreement and shall be valid and binding
obligations of the Trust, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them shall have ceased to
be so authorized prior to the authentication and delivery of such Trust Certificates or did not
hold such offices at the date of authentication and delivery of such Trust Certificates.
If a transfer of the Trust Certificates is permitted pursuant to Section 3.11, a transferee of
a Trust Certificate shall become a Certificateholder and shall be entitled to the rights and
subject to the obligations of a Certificateholder hereunder upon such transferee’s acceptance of a
Trust Certificate duly registered in such transferee’s name pursuant to Section 3.04.
Section 3.03 Execution, Authentication and Delivery of Trust Certificates. On the
Closing Date, the Owner Trustee shall cause the Trust Certificates in an aggregate Certificate
Percentage Interest equal to 100% to be executed on behalf of the Trust, authenticated and
delivered to or upon the written order of the Depositor, signed by the Owner Trustee on behalf of
the Trust, without further action by the Depositor, in authorized denominations. No Trust
Certificate shall entitle its Holder to any benefit under this Agreement or be valid for any
purpose unless there shall appear on such Trust Certificate a certificate of authentication
substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A, executed by the Owner Trustee or Citibank, N.A.,
as the Owner Trustee’s Authenticating Agent, by manual signature; such authentication shall
constitute conclusive evidence that such Trust Certificate shall have been duly authenticated and
delivered hereunder. All Trust Certificates shall be dated the date of their authentication.
Section 3.04 Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The
Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant
to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may
prescribe, the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of
transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. Wilmington Trust Company shall
be the initial Certificate Registrar.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency
maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, 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 Trust 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 Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust
Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust
Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
Every Trust 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
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such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate
surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed
of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust
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 Trust Certificates.
The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make,
and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for
a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
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 Trust Certificates.
Section 3.05 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Certificates. If (a) any
mutilated Trust Certificate shall be surrendered to the Certificate Registrar, or if the
Certificate Registrar shall receive evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft
of any Trust Certificate and (b) there shall be delivered to the Certificate Registrar and the
Owner Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless,
then in the absence of notice that such Trust Certificate has been acquired by a bona fide
purchaser, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Trust shall execute and the Owner Trustee or the
Owner Trustee’s Authenticating Agent, shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of
any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Trust Certificate, a new Trust Certificate of like
tenor and denomination. In connection with the issuance of any new Trust Certificate under this
Section, the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require the payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection therewith. Any
duplicate Trust Certificate issued pursuant to this Section shall constitute conclusive evidence of
ownership in the Trust, as if originally issued, whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed Trust
Certificate shall be found at any time.
Section 3.06 Persons Deemed Owners. Prior to due presentation of a Trust Certificate
for registration of transfer, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or any Paying Agent may
treat the Person in whose name any Trust Certificate is registered in the Certificate Register as
the owner of such Trust Certificate for the purpose of receiving distributions pursuant to Section
5.02 and for all other purposes whatsoever, and none of the Owner Trustee, the Certificate
Registrar or any Paying Agent shall be bound by any notice to the contrary.
Section 3.07 Access to List of Certificateholders’ Names and Addresses. The Owner
Trustee shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Servicer, the Paying Agent and the Depositor,
within 15 days after receipt by the Owner Trustee of a written request therefor from the Servicer,
the Paying Agent or the Depositor, a list, in such form as the Servicer or the Depositor may
reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Certificateholders as of the most recent
Record Date. The Certificate Registrar shall also promptly furnish to the Owner Trustee and the
Paying Agent a copy of such list at any time there is a change therein. If
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(a) three or more Certificateholders or (b) one or more Holders of Trust Certificates
evidencing not less than 50% of the Certificate Percentage Interests apply in writing to the Owner
Trustee, and such application states that the applicants desire to communicate with other
Certificateholders with respect to their rights under this Agreement or under the Trust
Certificates and such application is accompanied by a copy of the communication that such
applicants propose to transmit, then the Owner Trustee shall, within five Business Days after the
receipt of such application, afford such applicants access during normal business hours to the
current list of Certificateholders. Each Certificateholder, by receiving and holding a Trust
Certificate, shall be deemed to have agreed not to hold any of the Depositor, the Certificate
Registrar or the Owner Trustee accountable by reason of the disclosure of its name and address,
regardless of the source from which such information was derived. The Certificate Registrar shall
upon the request of the Owner Trustee provide such list, or access to such list, of
Certificateholders as contemplated by this Section.
Section 3.08 Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Trust shall designate in the State
of Delaware an office or offices or agency or agencies where Trust Certificates may be surrendered
for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Trust and
Owner Trustee in respect of the Trust Certificates and the Basic Documents may be served. The Trust
initially designates Wilmington Trust Company as its office for such purposes. The Trust shall
give prompt written notice to the Depositor and the Certificateholders of any change in the
location of the Certificate Register or any such office or agency.
Section 3.09 Appointment of Paying Agent. The Paying Agent shall make distributions
to Certificateholders from the Certificate Distribution Account pursuant to Section 5.02 and shall
report the amounts of such distributions to the Owner Trustee. Any Paying Agent shall have the
revocable power to withdraw funds from the Certificate Distribution Account for the purpose of
making the distributions referred to above. The Owner Trustee may revoke such power and remove the
Paying Agent if the Owner Trustee determines in its sole discretion that the Paying Agent shall
have failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect; provided,
however, the Owner Trustee shall have no duty to monitor or oversee the compliance by the Paying
Agent of its obligations under this Agreement or any other Basic Document. The Paying Agent
initially shall be Citibank, N.A., and any co-paying agent chosen by the Trust. Citibank, N.A.
shall be permitted to resign as Paying Agent upon 30 days’ written notice to the Owner Trustee. In
the event that Citibank, N.A. shall no longer be the Paying Agent, the Depositor, with the consent
of the Owner Trustee, shall appoint a successor to act as Paying Agent (which shall be a bank or
trust company). The Trust shall cause such successor Paying Agent or any additional Paying Agent
appointed hereunder to execute and deliver to the Trust an instrument in which such successor
Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent shall agree with the Trust that, as Paying Agent, such
successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent will hold all sums, if any, held by it for
payment to the Certificateholders in trust for the benefit of the Certificateholders entitled
thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Certificateholders. The Paying Agent shall return
all unclaimed funds to the Owner Trustee and upon removal of a Paying Agent such Paying Agent shall
also return all funds in its possession to the Owner Trustee. Any reference in this Agreement to
the Paying Agent shall include any co-paying agent unless the context requires otherwise.
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Section 3.10 Form of Trust Certificates. The Trust Certificates, upon original
issuance, will be issued in the form of a typewritten Trust Certificate or Trust Certificates
representing definitive, fully registered Trust Certificates (the “Definitive Trust Certificates”)
and shall be registered in the name of the Depositor or upon order of the Depositor as the initial
registered owner thereof. The Owner Trustee shall execute and authenticate, or cause to be
authenticated, the Definitive Trust Certificates in accordance with the instructions of the
Depositor. The Depositor hereby orders the Owner Trustee to execute and authenticate, or cause to
be authenticated, the Definitive Trust Certificates. Neither the Certificate Registrar 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 the Trust
Certificates, the Owner Trustee and each Paying Agent shall recognize the Holders of the Trust
Certificates as Certificateholders. The Trust Certificates shall be printed, lithographed or
engraved, or may be produced in any other manner as is reasonably acceptable to the Owner Trustee,
as evidenced by its execution thereof.
Section 3.11 Transfer Restrictions. (a) No Trust Certificate may be resold, assigned
or transferred (including by pledge or hypothecation) unless such resale, assignment or transfer is
(i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable
state securities or “Blue Sky” laws, (ii) pursuant to Rule 144A promulgated under the Securities
Act (“Rule 144A”) or (iii) pursuant to another exemption from the registration requirements of the
Securities Act and subject to the receipt by the Owner Trustee and the Depositor of (A) a
certification by the prospective transferee of the facts surrounding such transfer, which
certification shall be in form and substance satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor
and (B) if requested by the Owner Trustee, an opinion of counsel (which will not be at the expense
of the Owner Trustee), satisfactory to the Depositor and the Owner Trustee, to the effect that the
transfer is in compliance with the Securities Act, and, in each case, in compliance with any
applicable securities or “Blue Sky” laws of any state of the United States. In addition, each
transferee shall provide to the Owner Trustee its tax identification number, address, nominee name
(if applicable) and wire transfer instructions. Prior to any resale, assignment or transfer of the
Trust Certificates described in clause (ii) above, each prospective purchaser of the Trust
Certificates shall have acknowledged, represented and agreed as follows:
(1) It is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A (“QIB”) and is
acquiring the Trust Certificates for its own institutional account (and not for the account
of others) or as a fiduciary or agent for others (which others also are QIBs).
(2) It acknowledges that the Trust Certificates have not been and will not be
registered under the Securities Act or the securities laws of any jurisdiction.
(3) It is familiar with Rule 144A and is aware that the sale is being made in reliance
on Rule 144A and it is not acquiring the Trust Certificates with a view to, or for resale in
connection with, a distribution that would constitute a public offering within the meaning
of the Securities Act or a violation of the Securities Act, and that, if in the future it
decides to resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Trust Certificates, such Trust
Certificates may be resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (i) to the Depositor or
any Affiliate thereof, (ii) so long as such Trust Certificate is
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eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a person whom it reasonably believes
after due inquiry is a QIB acting for its own account (and not for the account of others) or
as a fiduciary or agent for others (which others also are QIBs) to whom notice is given that
the resale, pledge, assignment or transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, (iii)
pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (iv) in a sale,
pledge or other transfer made in a transaction otherwise exempt from the registration
requirements of the Securities Act, in which case (A) the Owner Trustee shall require that
both the prospective transferor and the prospective transferee certify to the Owner Trustee
and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding such transfer, which certification shall
be in form and substance satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor and (B) the
Owner Trustee shall require a written opinion of counsel (which will not be at the expense
of the Depositor or the Owner Trustee) satisfactory to the Depositor and the Owner Trustee
to the effect that such transfer will not violate the Securities Act, in each case in
accordance with any applicable securities or “Blue Sky” laws of any state of the United
States.
(4) It is aware that it (or any account for which it is purchasing) may be required to
bear the economic risk of an investment in the Trust Certificates for an indefinite period,
and it (or such account) is able to bear such risk for an indefinite period.
(5) It understands that the Trust Certificates will bear legends substantially as set
forth in Section 3.12.
(6) If it is acquiring any Trust Certificates for the account of one or more qualified
institutional buyers, it represents that it has sole investment discretion with respect to
each such account and that it has full power to make the foregoing acknowledgements,
representations and agreements on behalf of each such account.
(7) It (and any Person for which it holds Trust Certificates) has neither acquired nor
will it transfer any Trust Certificate it purchases (or any interest therein) or cause any
such Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) to be marketed on or through an
“established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(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.
(8) It (and any Person for which it holds Trust Certificates, collectively for purposes
of this paragraph (8), a “transferee”) either (A) is not, and will not become, a
partnership, S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (or a
disregarded entity of any of the foregoing) or (B) is such an entity, but 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, if the Owner Trustee has received an
Opinion of Counsel in form and substance acceptable to the Depositor that the proposed
transfer to such transferee will not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded
partnership within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code, such other percentage as the
Owner Trustee may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of
such interests in the transferee to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Trust
Certificates.
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(9) It understands that if it is acquiring any Trust Certificate 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 Trust Certificate is held shall require
the written consent of the Owner Trustee, which consent shall be granted unless the Owner
Trustee determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that
the Trust would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an
association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation.
(10) It understands that no subsequent transfer of the Trust Certificates (or any
interest therein) is permitted unless (A) such transfer is of a Trust Certificate with a
Certificate Percentage Interest of at least 5%, (B) it causes its proposed transferee to
provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor a letter substantially in the form of Exhibit
C hereto, or such other written statement as the Owner Trustee shall prescribe and (C) the
Trust consents in writing to the proposed transfer, which consent shall be granted unless
the Owner Trustee determines that such transfer would either create a risk that the 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 cause the number of beneficial owners of Trust Certificates in the
aggregate to exceed 100 or otherwise cause the Trust to become a publicly traded partnership
for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer.
(11) It understands that the Opinion of Counsel to the Trust that the Trust is not a
publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of
the representations in paragraphs (7), (8), (9) and (10) above.
(12) It is a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the
Code.
(13) It acknowledges that the Owner Trustee, the Depositor, and their Affiliates, and
others will rely upon the truth and accuracy of the foregoing acknowledgments,
representations and agreements.
Each transferee of the Trust Certificates shall be required to execute or to have executed a
representation letter substantially in the form of Exhibit C, or may deliver such other
representations (or an opinion of counsel) as may be approved by the Owner Trustee and the
Depositor, to the effect that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from registration
under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities or “Blue Sky” laws.
In addition, such prospective purchaser shall be responsible for providing additional
information or certification, as shall be reasonably requested by the Owner Trustee or the
Depositor, to support the truth and accuracy of the foregoing acknowledgments, representations and
agreements, it being understood that such additional information is not intended to create
additional restrictions on the transfer of the Trust Certificates. Neither the Depositor, the
Trust nor the Owner Trustee shall be obligated to register or monitor compliance with the Trust
Certificates under the Securities Act or any state securities or “Blue Sky” laws.
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In determining compliance with the transfer restrictions contained in this Section, the Owner
Trustee may rely upon a written opinion of counsel (which may include in-house counsel of the
transferor), the cost of obtaining which shall be an expense of the Holder of the Certificate to be
transferred.
(b) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired by or for the account of (i) an “employee
benefit plan” (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) whether or not it is subject to the provisions
of Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code or (iii) any entity
whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan’s investment in the entity (each, a
“Benefit Plan Investor”). By accepting and holding a Trust Certificate, the Holder thereof shall
be deemed to have represented and warranted that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor.
Section 3.12 Legending of Trust Certificates. Each Trust Certificate shall bear a
legend in substantially the following form, unless the Depositor determines otherwise in accordance
with applicable law:
THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY OTHER
APPLICABLE SECURITIES OR “BLUE SKY” LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION, AND MAY NOT BE RESOLD,
ASSIGNED, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
OF THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE SECURITIES OR “BLUE SKY” LAWS, PURSUANT TO AN
EXEMPTION THEREFROM OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT THERETO. THE HOLDER HEREOF, BY PURCHASING THIS
TRUST CERTIFICATE, AGREES THAT THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE MAY BE RESOLD, ASSIGNED, PLEDGED OR
TRANSFERRED ONLY (A) SO LONG AS THE TRUST CERTIFICATE IS ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, TO THE PERSON WHOM THE TRANSFEROR REASONABLY BELIEVES AFTER DUE INQUIRY
IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER ACTING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT (AND NOT FOR THE ACCOUNT OF OTHERS)
OR AS A FIDUCIARY OR AGENT FOR OTHERS (WHICH OTHERS ALSO ARE QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYERS) TO
WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE RESALE, ASSIGNMENT, PLEDGE OR TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON
RULE 144A, (B) TO A UNITED STATES PERSON WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 7701(a)(30) OF THE CODE, (C)
PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (D) IN A TRANSACTION
EXEMPT FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND OTHER SECURITIES OR “BLUE SKY”
LAWS. IN SUCH CASE THE OWNER TRUSTEE SHALL REQUIRE (I) THAT THE PROSPECTIVE TRANSFEREE CERTIFY TO
THE OWNER TRUSTEE AND THE DEPOSITOR IN WRITING THE FACTS SURROUNDING SUCH TRANSFER, WHICH
CERTIFICATION SHALL BE IN FORM AND SUBSTANCE SATISFACTORY TO THE OWNER TRUSTEE AND (II) IF
REQUESTED BY THE OWNER TRUSTEE, A WRITTEN OPINION OF COUNSEL (WHICH SHALL NOT BE AT THE EXPENSE OF
THE OWNER TRUSTEE OR THE DEPOSITOR) SATISFACTORY TO THE OWNER TRUSTEE AND THE DEPOSITOR, TO THE
EFFECT THAT SUCH TRANSFER WILL NOT VIOLATE THE SECURITIES ACT, IN EACH CASE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY
APPLICABLE SECURITIES OR “BLUE SKY” LAWS OF
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ANY STATE OR JURISDICTION. ANY ATTEMPTED TRANSFER IN CONTRAVENTION OF THE IMMEDIATELY
PRECEDING RESTRICTIONS WILL BE VOID AB INITIO AND THE PURPORTED TRANSFEROR WILL CONTINUE TO BE
TREATED AS THE OWNER OF THE TRUST CERTIFICATE FOR ALL PURPOSES.
NO TRUST CERTIFICATE OR INTEREST THEREIN MAY BE ACQUIRED BY OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF (I) AN
“EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN” (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 3(3) OF ERISA) WHETHER OR NOT IT IS SUBJECT TO THE
PROVISIONS OF TITLE I OF ERISA, (II) A “PLAN” DESCRIBED IN SECTION 4975(E)(1) OF THE CODE OR (III)
ANY ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE PLAN ASSETS BY REASON OF A PLAN’S INVESTMENT IN THE
ENTITY (EACH, A “BENEFIT PLAN INVESTOR”). BY ACCEPTING AND HOLDING A TRUST CERTIFICATE, THE HOLDER
THEREOF SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED AND WARRANTED THAT IT IS NOT A BENEFIT PLAN INVESTOR.
Section 3.13 Authenticating Agent.
(a) The Owner Trustee may appoint one or more Authenticating Agents (each, an “Authenticating
Agent”) with respect to the Certificates which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Owner
Trustee in authenticating the Certificates in connection with the issuance, delivery, registration
of transfer, exchange or repayment of the Certificates. The Owner Trustee hereby appoints Citibank,
N.A. as Authenticating Agent for the authentication of Certificates upon any registration of
transfer or exchange of such Certificates. Whenever reference is made in this Agreement to the
authentication of Certificates by the Owner Trustee or the Owner Trustee’s certificate of
authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include authentication on behalf of the Owner
Trustee by an Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the
Owner Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent (other than Citibank, N.A.)
shall be subject to acceptance by the Depositor.
(b) Any institution succeeding to the corporate agency business of an Authenticating Agent
shall continue to be an Authenticating Agent without the execution or filing of any paper or any
further act on the part of the Owner Trustee or such Authenticating Agent.
(c) An Authenticating Agent may at any time resign by giving written notice of resignation to
the Owner Trustee and the Depositor. The Owner Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of an
Authenticating Agent by giving notice of termination to such Authenticating Agent and to the
Depositor. Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at
any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be acceptable to the Owner Trustee or the
Depositor, the Owner Trustee promptly may appoint a successor Authenticating Agent with the consent
of the Depositor. Any successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder
shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like
effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent.
(d) The Depositor shall pay the Authenticating Agent from time to time reasonable compensation
for its services under this Section 3.13.
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(e) Pursuant to an appointment made under this Section 3.13, the Certificates may have
endorsed thereon, in lieu of the Owner Trustee’s certificate of authentication, an alternate
certificate of authentication in substantially the following form:
This is one of the Certificates referred to in the within mentioned Agreement.
as Owner Trustee | ||||
By: | ||||
Authorized Officer | ||||
or | ||||
as Authenticating Agent for the Owner Trustee, | ||||
By: | ||||
Authorized Officer |
Section 3.14 Actions of Certificateholders.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action
provided by this Agreement to be given or taken by the Certificateholders may be embodied in and
evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such
Certificateholders in person or by agent duly appointed in writing; and except as herein otherwise
expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are
delivered to the Owner Trustee and, when required, to the Depositor or the Servicer. Proof of
execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for
any purpose of this Agreement and conclusive in favor of the Owner Trustee, the Depositor and the
Servicer, if made in the manner provided in this Section 3.14.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Certificateholder of any such instrument or
writing may be proved in any reasonable manner which the Owner Trustee deems sufficient. Any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other act by a
Certificateholder shall bind every Holder of every Certificate issued upon the registration of
transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof, in respect of anything done, or
omitted to be done, by the Owner Trustee, the Depositor or the Servicer in reliance thereon,
regardless of whether notation of such action is made upon such Certificate.
(c) The Owner Trustee may require such additional proof of any matter referred to in this
Section 3.14 as it shall deem necessary.
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ARTICLE 4.
ACTIONS BY OWNER TRUSTEE
ACTIONS BY OWNER TRUSTEE
Section 4.01 Prior Notice with Respect to Certain Matters. With respect to the
following matters, the Owner Trustee shall not take action unless at least 30 days before the
taking of such action, the Owner Trustee shall have notified the Servicer of record as of the
preceding Record Date in writing of the proposed action and such Servicer shall not have notified
the Owner Trustee in writing prior to the 30th day after such notice is given that such Servicer
has withheld consent or provided alternative direction:
(a) the initiation of any claim or lawsuit by the Trust (except claims or lawsuits brought in
connection with the collection of the Receivables) and the compromise of any action, claim or
lawsuit brought by or against the Trust (except with respect to the aforementioned claims or
lawsuits for collection of the Receivables);
(b) the election by the Trust to file an amendment to the Certificate of Trust (unless such
amendment is required to be filed under the Statutory Trust Act);
(c) the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental indenture or any other change to this
Agreement or any Basic Document in circumstances where the consent of any Noteholder is required;
(d) the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental indenture or any other change to this
Agreement or any Basic Document in circumstances where the consent of any Noteholder is not
required and such amendment would materially adversely affect the interests of the
Certificateholders;
(e) the amendment, change or modification of the Administration Agreement, except to cure any
ambiguity or to amend or supplement any provision in a manner or add any provision that would not
materially adversely affect the interests of the Certificateholders;
(f) the appointment pursuant to the Indenture of a successor Note Registrar, Paying Agent or
Indenture Trustee or pursuant to this Agreement of a successor Certificate Registrar, or the
consent to the assignment by the Note Registrar, Paying Agent or Indenture Trustee or Certificate
Registrar of its obligations under the Indenture or this Agreement, as applicable;
(g) the consent to the calling or waiver of any default of any Basic Document;
(h) the consent to the assignment by the Indenture Trustee or Servicer of their respective
obligations under any Basic Document, unless permitted in the Basic Documents;
(i) except as provided in Article IX hereof, dissolve, terminate or liquidate the Trust in
whole or in part;
(j) merge or consolidate the Trust with or into any other entity, or convey or transfer all or
substantially all of the Trust’s assets to any other entity;
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(k) cause the Trust to incur, assume or guaranty any indebtedness other than as set forth in
this Agreement or the Basic Documents;
(l) do any act that conflicts with any other Basic Document;
(m) do any act that would make it impossible to carry on the ordinary business of the Trust as
described in Section 2.03 hereof;
(n) confess a judgment against the Trust;
(o) possess Trust assets, or assign the Trust’s right to property, for other than a Trust
purpose;
(p) cause the Trust to lend any funds to any entity, unless permitted in the Basic Documents;
or
(q) change the Trust’s purpose and powers from those set forth in this Agreement.
In addition, the Trust shall not commingle its assets with those of any other entity. The
Trust shall maintain its financial and accounting books and records separate from those of any
other entity. Except as expressly set forth herein, the Trust shall not pay the indebtedness,
operating expenses and liabilities of any other entity. The Trust shall maintain appropriate
minutes or other records of all appropriate actions and shall maintain its office separate from the
offices of the Depositor and the Servicer.
The Owner Trustee shall not have the power, except upon the direction of the Servicer and to
the extent otherwise consistent with the Basic Documents, to (i) remove or replace the Indenture
Trustee, (ii) institute proceedings to have the Trust declared or adjudicated a bankrupt or
insolvent, (iii) consent to the institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against the
Trust, (iv) file a petition or consent to a petition seeking reorganization or relief on behalf of
the Trust under any applicable federal or state law relating to bankruptcy, (v) consent to the
appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or any similar official) of
the Trust or a substantial portion of the property of the Trust, (vi) make any assignment for the
benefit of the Trust’s creditors, (vii) cause the Trust to admit in writing its inability to pay
its debts generally as they become due, (viii) take any action, or cause the Trust to take any
action, in furtherance of any of the foregoing (any of the above, a “Bankruptcy Action”). So long
as the Indenture remains in effect, to the extent permitted by applicable law, no Certificateholder
shall have the power to take, and shall not take, any Bankruptcy Action with respect to the Trust
or direct the Owner Trustee to take any Bankruptcy Action with respect to the Trust.
Section 4.02 Action by Servicer with Respect to Certain Matters. The Owner Trustee
shall not have the power, except upon the written direction of the Servicer to (a) remove the
Administrator under the Administration Agreement pursuant to Section 8 thereof, (b) appoint a
successor Administrator pursuant to Section 8 of the Administration Agreement, (c) remove the
Servicer under the Sale and Servicing Agreement pursuant to Section 8.02 thereof, (d) amend the
Sale and Servicing Agreement pursuant to Section 10.01(b) of such document, or (e) except as
expressly provided in the Basic Documents, sell the Receivables after the termination of the
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Indenture. The Owner Trustee shall take the actions referred to in the preceding sentence
only upon written instructions signed by the Certificateholders and Servicer.
Section 4.03 Action by Certificateholders with Respect to Bankruptcy. The Owner
Trustee shall not have the power to commence a voluntary proceeding in bankruptcy relating to the
Trust without the unanimous prior approval of all Certificateholders and the delivery to the Owner
Trustee by each such Certificateholder of a certification certifying that such Certificateholder
reasonably believes that the Trust is insolvent.
Section 4.04 Restrictions on Servicer’s Power. The Servicer shall not direct the
Owner Trustee to take or to refrain from taking any action if such action or inaction would be
contrary to any obligation of the Trust or the Owner Trustee under this Agreement or any of the
Basic Documents or would be contrary to Section 2.03; nor shall the Owner Trustee be obligated to
follow any such direction, if given.
Section 4.05 Majority Control. Except as expressly provided herein, any action that
may be taken by the Certificateholders under this Agreement may be taken by the Holders of Trust
Certificates evidencing not less than a majority of the Certificate Percentage Interests. Except
as expressly provided herein, any written notice of the Certificateholders delivered pursuant to
this Agreement shall be effective if signed by Holders of Trust Certificates evidencing not less
than a majority of the Certificate Percentage Interests at the time of the delivery of such notice.
ARTICLE 5.
APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS; CERTAIN DUTIES
APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS; CERTAIN DUTIES
Section 5.01 Establishment of Trust Account. The Paying Agent shall establish and
maintain in the name of the Trust an Eligible Account (the “Certificate Distribution Account”),
bearing a designation clearly indicating that the funds deposited therein are held for the benefit
of the Certificateholders. The title of the Certificate Distribution Account shall be “Hyundai
Auto Receivables Trust 2006-A: Certificate Distribution Account for the benefit of the
Certificateholders”.
The Trust shall possess all right, title and interest in all funds on deposit from time to
time in the Certificate Distribution Account and in all proceeds thereof. Except as otherwise
expressly provided herein, the Certificate Distribution Account shall be under the sole dominion
and control of the Owner Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. If, at any time, the
Certificate Distribution Account ceases to be an Eligible Account, the Paying Agent shall within 10
Business Days (or such longer period, not to exceed 30 calendar days, as to which each Rating
Agency may consent) establish a new Certificate Distribution Account, as applicable, as an Eligible
Account and shall transfer any cash or any investments to such new Certificate Distribution
Account.
Section 5.02 Application of Trust Funds.
(a) On each Payment Date, the Paying Agent shall distribute to Certificateholders all amounts
deposited in the Certificate Distribution Account pursuant to
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Section 5.05 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement with respect to such Payment Date based upon
each Certificateholder’s Certificate Percentage Interest.
(b) On each Payment Date, the Paying Agent shall send to each Certificateholder the statement
or statements provided by the Servicer pursuant to Section 5.07 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement
with respect to such Payment Date.
Section 5.03 Method of Payment. Subject to Section 9.01(c), distributions required to
be made to Certificateholders on any Payment Date shall be made to each Certificateholder of record
on the preceding Record Date either by wire transfer, in immediately available funds, to the
account of such Certificateholder at a bank or other entity having appropriate facilities therefor,
if (a) such Certificateholder shall have provided to the Certificate Registrar and the Paying Agent
appropriate written instructions at least five Business Days prior to such Payment Date and (b)
such Certificateholder is the Depositor, or an Affiliate thereof, or, if not, by check mailed to
such Certificateholder at the address of such Certificateholder appearing in the Certificate
Register.
Section 5.04 Accounting and Reports to Certificateholders, the Internal Revenue Service
and Others. At such time as there is more than one Certificateholder (for tax purposes) , the
Administrator (or agent on its behalf) shall:
(a) unless otherwise required under the Code, maintain (or cause to be maintained) the books
of the Trust on a calendar year basis and the accrual method of accounting,
(b) deliver (or cause to be delivered) to each Certificateholder, as may be required by the
Code and applicable Treasury Regulations, such information as may be required (including Schedule
K-1) to enable each Certificateholder to prepare its federal and state income tax returns,
(c) file (or cause to be filed) such tax returns relating to the Trust (including IRS Form
1065), and make such elections as from time to time may be required or appropriate under any
applicable state or federal statute or any rule or regulation thereunder so as to maintain the
Trust’s characterization as a partnership for federal income tax purposes, and
(d) cause such tax returns to be signed in the manner required by law. The parties to this
Agreement agree and acknowledge that the Administrator shall perform the duties and obligations
under this Section 5.04 in accordance with the Administration Agreement.
Section 5.05 Signature on Returns; Tax Matters Partner.
(a) The Owner Trustee shall sign on behalf of the Trust the tax returns of the Trust provided
to it in execution form, if any, unless applicable law requires a Certificateholder or another
Person to sign such documents.
(b) As long as the Trust is treated as a partnership for federal income tax purposes and the
Depositor or an affiliate is a beneficial owner of a Trust Certificate, to the extent allowed by
the Code, Hyundai Motor Finance Company shall be designated the “tax
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matters partner” of the Trust pursuant to Section 6231(a)(7) of the Code and applicable
Treasury Regulations.
Section 5.06 Duties of Depositor on Behalf of Trust. Except to the extent such
responsibilities are assumed by the Administrator in the Administration Agreement or the Servicer
in the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Depositor shall, on behalf of the Trust, prepare and,
after execution by the Trust, file with the Securities and Exchange Commission and all applicable
state agencies all documents required to be filed on a periodic basis with the SEC and all
applicable state agencies (including any summaries thereof required by rules and regulations
prescribed thereby), and transmit such summaries to the Noteholders pursuant to Section 7.03 of the
Indenture.
ARTICLE 6.
AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF OWNER TRUSTEE
AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF OWNER TRUSTEE
Section 6.01 General Authority. The Owner Trustee is authorized and directed to
execute and deliver the Basic Documents to which the Trust is to be a party and each certificate or
other document attached as an exhibit to or contemplated by the Basic Documents to which the Trust
is to be a party, in each case, in such form as the Depositor shall approve, as evidenced
conclusively by the Owner Trustee’s execution thereof. In addition to the foregoing, the Owner
Trustee is authorized, but shall not be obligated, to take all actions required of the Trust
pursuant to the Basic Documents. The Owner Trustee is further authorized from time to time to take
such action as the Administrator recommends with respect to the Basic Documents.
Section 6.02 General Duties. It shall be the duty of the Owner Trustee:
(a) to discharge (or cause to be discharged) all of its responsibilities pursuant to the terms
of this Agreement and to administer the Trust in the interest of the Certificateholders, subject to
the Basic Documents and in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement; provided, however,
that notwithstanding the foregoing, the Owner Trustee shall be deemed to have discharged its duties
and responsibilities hereunder and under the Basic Documents to the extent the Administrator has
agreed in the Administration Agreement to perform any act or to discharge any duty of the Owner
Trustee hereunder or under any Basic Document, and the Owner Trustee shall not be held liable for
the default or failure of the Administrator to carry out its obligations under the Administration
Agreement; and
(b) to cooperate with the Administrator in carrying out the Administrator’s obligation to
qualify and preserve the Trust’s qualification to do business in each jurisdiction, if any, in
which such qualification is or shall be necessary to protect the validity and enforceability of the
Indenture, the Notes, the Receivables and any other instrument and agreement included in the Trust
Estate; provided that the Owner Trustee may rely on advice of counsel with respect to such
obligation.
Section 6.03 Action upon Instruction.
(a) Subject to Article IV and in accordance with the terms of the Basic Documents, the
Servicer may by written instruction direct the Owner Trustee in the management
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of the Trust. Such direction may be exercised at any time by written instruction of the
Servicer pursuant to Article IV.
(b) The Owner Trustee shall not be required to take any action hereunder or under any Basic
Document if the Owner Trustee shall have reasonably determined, or shall have been advised by
counsel, that such action is likely to result in liability on the part of the Owner Trustee or is
contrary to the terms hereof or of any Basic Document or is otherwise contrary to law.
(c) Whenever the Owner Trustee is unable to decide between alternative courses of action
permitted or required by the terms of this Agreement or under any Basic Document, the Owner Trustee
shall promptly give notice (in such form as shall be appropriate under the circumstances) to the
Servicer of record as of the preceding Record Date requesting instruction as to the course of
action to be adopted, and to the extent the Owner Trustee acts in good faith in accordance with any
written instruction of such Servicer received, the Owner Trustee shall not be liable on account of
such action to any Person. If the Owner Trustee shall not have received appropriate instruction
within 10 days of such notice (or within such shorter period of time as reasonably may be specified
in such notice or may be necessary under the circumstances) it may, but shall be under no duty to,
take or refrain from taking such action not inconsistent with this Agreement or the Basic
Documents, as it shall deem to be in the best interests of the Certificateholders, and shall have
no liability to any Person for such action or inaction.
(d) In the event that the Owner Trustee is unsure as to the application of any provision of
this Agreement or any Basic Document or any such provision is ambiguous as to its application, or
is, or appears to be, in conflict with any other applicable provision, or in the event that this
Agreement permits any determination by the Owner Trustee or is silent or is incomplete as to the
course of action that the Owner Trustee is required to take with respect to a particular set of
facts, the Owner Trustee may give notice (in such form as shall be appropriate under the
circumstances) to the Servicer requesting instruction and, to the extent that the Owner Trustee
acts or refrains from acting in good faith in accordance with any such instruction received, the
Owner Trustee shall not be liable, on account of such action or inaction, to any Person. If the
Owner Trustee shall not have received appropriate instruction within 10 days of such notice (or
within such shorter period of time as reasonably may be specified in such notice or may be
necessary under the circumstances) it may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from
taking such action not inconsistent with this Agreement or the Basic Documents, as it shall deem to
be in the best interests of the Certificateholders, and shall have no liability to any Person for
such action or inaction.
Section 6.04 No Duties Except as Specified in this Agreement or in Instructions. The
Owner Trustee shall not have any duty or obligation to manage, make any payment with respect to,
register, record, sell, dispose of, or otherwise deal with the Trust Estate, or to otherwise take
or refrain from taking any action under, or in connection with, any document contemplated hereby to
which the Owner Trustee or the Trust is a party, except as expressly provided by the terms of this
Agreement or in any document or written instruction received by the Owner Trustee pursuant to
Section 6.03, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or any Basic
Document against the Owner Trustee. The Owner Trustee shall have no
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responsibility for filing any financing or continuation statement in any public office at any
time or to otherwise perfect or maintain the perfection of any security interest or Lien granted to
it hereunder or to prepare or file any SEC filing or tax filing for the Trust or to record this
Agreement or any Basic Document. The Owner Trustee nevertheless agrees that it will, at its own
cost and expense, promptly take all action as may be necessary to discharge any Liens on any part
of the Trust Estate that result from actions by, or claims against, the Owner Trustee in its
individual capacity that are not related to the ownership or the administration of the Trust
Estate.
Section 6.05 No Action Except Under Specified Documents or Instructions. The Owner
Trustee shall not manage, control, use, sell, dispose of or otherwise deal with any part of the
Trust Estate except (i) in accordance with the powers granted to and the authority conferred upon
the Owner Trustee pursuant to this Agreement, (ii) in accordance with the Basic Documents or (iii)
in accordance with any document or instruction delivered to the Owner Trustee pursuant to Section
6.03.
Section 6.06 Restrictions. The Owner Trustee shall not take any action that, to its
actual knowledge, (a) is inconsistent with the purposes of the Trust set forth in Section 2.03 or
(b) would result in the Trust becoming taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes or
for state or local income or franchise tax purposes. The Certificateholders and Servicer shall not
direct the Owner Trustee to take any action that would violate the provisions of this Section.
ARTICLE 7.
CONCERNING THE OWNER TRUSTEE
CONCERNING THE OWNER TRUSTEE
Section 7.01 Acceptance of Trusts and Duties. The Owner Trustee accepts the trusts
hereby created and agrees to perform its duties hereunder with respect to such trusts, but only
upon the terms of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee also agrees to disburse all moneys actually
received by it constituting part of the Trust Estate upon the terms of this Agreement. The Owner
Trustee shall not be answerable or accountable hereunder or under any Basic Document under any
circumstances, except (i) for its own willful misconduct or negligence or (ii) in the case of the
inaccuracy of any representation or warranty contained in Section 7.03 expressly made by the Owner
Trustee. In particular, but not by way of limitation (and subject to the exceptions set forth in
the preceding sentence):
(a) The Owner Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made by a Trust Officer of
the Owner Trustee;
(b) The Owner Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be
taken by it in accordance with the instructions of the Servicer, the Administrator or any
Certificateholder;
(c) No provision of this Agreement or any Basic Document shall require the Owner Trustee to
expend or risk funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its
rights or powers hereunder or under any Basic Document if the Owner Trustee shall have reasonable
grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or
liability is not reasonably assured or provided to it;
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(d) Under no circumstances shall the Owner Trustee be liable for indebtedness evidenced by or
arising under any of the Basic Documents, including the principal of and interest on the Notes;
(e) The Owner Trustee shall not be responsible for or in respect of the validity or
sufficiency of this Agreement or for the due execution hereof by the Depositor or for the form,
character, genuineness, sufficiency, value or validity of any of the Trust Estate, or for or in
respect of the validity or sufficiency of the Basic Documents, other than the certificate of
authentication on the Trust Certificates, and the Owner Trustee shall in no event assume or incur
any liability, duty or obligation to any Noteholder or to any Certificateholder, other than as
expressly provided for herein or expressly agreed to in the other Basic Documents;
(f) The Owner Trustee shall not be responsible for monitoring the performance of, and shall
not be liable for the default or misconduct of the Administrator, the Depositor, the Servicer, the
Indenture Trustee or any other Person under any of the Basic Documents or otherwise, and the Owner
Trustee shall have no obligation or liability to perform the obligations of the Trust under the
Basic Documents other than as set forth in this Trust Agreement;
(g) The Owner Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers
vested in it by this Agreement, or to institute, conduct or defend any litigation under this
Agreement or otherwise or in relation to this Agreement or any Basic Document, at the request,
order or direction of the Servicer, unless such Servicer has offered to the Owner Trustee security
or indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities that may be incurred by
the Owner Trustee therein or thereby. The right of the Owner Trustee to perform any discretionary
act enumerated in this Agreement or in any Basic Document shall not be construed as a duty, and the
Owner Trustee shall not be answerable for other than its negligence or willful misconduct in the
performance of any such act; and
(h) The Certificateholders agree that during such time as the Owner Trustee is acting at the
direction of the Servicer, any fiduciary duties or liabilities of the Owner Trustee to the
Certificateholders in connection therewith shall be deemed not to violate any fiduciary duties owed
by the Owner Trustee to the Certificateholders. However, in no event shall the Owner Trustee be
deemed to owe any fiduciary duties to the Servicer.
Section 7.02 Furnishing of Documents. The Owner Trustee shall furnish to the
Certificateholders, promptly upon receipt of a written request therefor, duplicates or copies of
all reports, notices, requests, demands, certificates, financial statements and any other
instruments furnished to the Owner Trustee under the Basic Documents.
Section 7.03 Representations and Warranties. The Owner Trustee hereby represents and
warrants to the Depositor, for the benefit of the Certificateholders, that:
(a) It is a banking corporation duly incorporated and validly existing in good standing under
the laws of the State of Delaware. It has all requisite corporate power and authority to execute,
deliver and perform its obligations under this Agreement.
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(b) It has taken all corporate action necessary to authorize the execution and delivery by it
of this Agreement, and this Agreement will be executed and delivered by one of its officers who is
duly authorized to execute and deliver this Agreement on its behalf.
(c) Neither the execution or the delivery by it of this Agreement, nor the consummation by it
of the transactions contemplated hereby, nor compliance by it with any of the terms or provisions
hereof will contravene any federal or Delaware law, governmental rule or regulation governing the
banking or trust powers of the Owner Trustee or any judgment or order binding on it, or constitute
any default under its charter documents or bylaws or any indenture, mortgage, contract, agreement
or instrument to which it is a party or by which any of its properties may be bound.
(d) It is a corporation satisfying the provisions of Section 3807(a) of the Statutory Trust
Act; authorized to exercise corporate trust powers; having a combined capital and surplus of at
least $50,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authorities; and
having (or having a parent that has) time deposits that are rated at least A-1 by Standard & Poor’s
and P-1 by Moody’s or who is otherwise acceptable to each Rating Agency.
Section 7.04 Reliance; Advice of Counsel.
(a) The Owner Trustee shall incur no liability to anyone in acting upon any signature,
instrument, notice, resolution, request, consent, order, certificate, report, opinion, bond, or
other document or paper believed by it to be genuine and believed by it to be signed by the proper
party or parties. The Owner Trustee may accept a certified copy of a resolution of the board of
directors or other governing body of any corporate party as conclusive evidence that such
resolution has been duly adopted by such body and that the same is in full force and effect. As to
any fact or matter the method of determination of which is not specifically prescribed herein, the
Owner Trustee may for all purposes hereof rely on a certificate, signed by the president or any
vice president or by the treasurer or other authorized officers of the relevant party, as to such
fact or matter, and such certificate shall constitute full protection to the Owner Trustee for any
action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in reliance thereon.
(b) In the exercise or administration of the trust hereunder and in the performance of its
duties and obligations under this Agreement or the Basic Documents, the Owner Trustee (i) may act
directly or through its agents or attorneys pursuant to agreements entered into with any of them,
and the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for the conduct or misconduct of such agents or attorneys
if such agents or attorneys shall have been selected by the Owner Trustee with reasonable care, and
(ii) may consult with counsel, accountants and other skilled Persons to be selected with reasonable
care and employed by it. The Owner Trustee shall not be liable for anything done, suffered or
omitted reasonably and in good faith by it in accordance with the opinion or advice of any such
counsel, accountants or other such Persons.
Section 7.05 Not Acting in Individual Capacity. Except as provided in this Article
VII, in accepting the trust hereby created, Wilmington Trust Company acts solely as Owner Trustee
hereunder and not in its individual capacity, and all Persons having any claim against the Owner
Trustee by reason of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any Basic Document shall
look only to the Trust Estate for payment or satisfaction thereof.
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Section 7.06 Owner Trustee Not Liable for Trust Certificates or for Receivables. The
recitals contained herein and in the Trust Certificates (other than the signature and
countersignature of the Owner Trustee on the Trust Certificates) shall be taken as the statements
of the Depositor, and the Owner Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness thereof.
Except as set forth in Section 7.03, the Owner Trustee makes no representations as to the validity
or sufficiency of this Agreement, of any Basic Document or of the Trust Certificates (other than
the signature and authentication of the Owner Trustee on the Trust Certificates) or the Notes, or
of any Receivable or related documents. The Owner Trustee shall at no time have any responsibility
or liability for or with respect to the legality, validity and enforceability of any Receivable or
the perfection and priority of any security interest created by any Receivable in any Financed
Vehicle or the maintenance of any such perfection and priority, or for or with respect to the
sufficiency of the Trust Estate or its ability to generate the payments to be distributed to the
Certificateholders under this Agreement or the Noteholders under the Indenture, including, without
limitation: (a) the existence, condition and ownership of any Financed Vehicle; (b) the existence
and enforceability of any insurance thereon; (c) the existence and contents of any Receivable on
any computer or other record thereof; (d) the validity of the assignment of any Receivable to the
Trust or of any intervening assignment; (e) the completeness of any Receivable; (f) the performance
or enforcement of any Receivable; and (g) the compliance by the Depositor or the Servicer with any
warranty or representation made under any Basic Document or in any related document or the accuracy
of any such warranty or representation, or any action of the Administrator, the Indenture Trustee
or the Servicer or any subservicer taken in the name of the Owner Trustee.
Section 7.07 Owner Trustee May Own Trust Certificates and Notes. The Owner Trustee in
its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Trust Certificates or Notes
and may deal with the Depositor, the Administrator, the Indenture Trustee and the Servicer in
banking transactions with the same rights as it would have if it were not Owner Trustee.
Section 7.08 Doing Business in Other Jurisdictions. Notwithstanding anything
contained herein to the contrary, neither Wilmington Trust Company nor the Owner Trustee shall be
required to take any action in any jurisdiction other than in the State of Delaware if the taking
of such action will (a) require the consent or approval or authorization or order of, or the giving
of notice to, or the registration with, or the taking of any other action required by, any state or
other governmental authority or agency of any jurisdiction other than the State of Delaware; (b)
result in any fee, tax or other governmental charge under the laws of any jurisdiction or any
political subdivisions thereof in existence on the date hereof other than the State of Delaware
becoming payable by Wilmington Trust Company or the Owner Trustee; or (c) subject Wilmington Trust
Company or the Owner Trustee to personal jurisdiction in any jurisdiction other than the State of
Delaware for causes of action arising from acts unrelated to the consummation of the transactions
by Wilmington Trust Company or the Owner Trustee, as the case may be, contemplated hereby. The
Owner Trustee shall be entitled to obtain advice of counsel (which advice shall be an expense of
the Administrator under Section 8.01 of this Agreement) to determine whether any action required to
be taken pursuant to the Agreement results in the consequences described in clauses (a), (b) and
(c) of the preceding sentence. In the event that said counsel advises the Owner Trustee that such
action will result in such
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consequences, the Trust will appoint an additional trustee pursuant to Section 10.05 hereof to
proceed with such action.
Section 7.09 Paying Agent; Authenticating Agent. The rights and protections afforded
to the Owner Trustee pursuant to this Agreement, including without limitation Articles VII and VIII
hereof, shall also be afforded to the Paying Agent, Authenticating Agent and Certificate Registrar.
ARTICLE 8.
COMPENSATION OF OWNER TRUSTEE
COMPENSATION OF OWNER TRUSTEE
Section 8.01 Owner Trustee’s Fees and Expenses. The Administrator shall pay to the
Owner Trustee as compensation for its services hereunder such fees as have been separately agreed
upon before the date hereof between the Administrator and the Owner Trustee, and the Administrator
shall reimburse the Owner Trustee for its other reasonable expenses hereunder, including the
reasonable compensation, expenses and disbursements of such agents, representatives, experts and
counsel as the Owner Trustee may employ in connection with the exercise and performance of its
rights and its duties hereunder and under the Basic Documents.
Section 8.02 Indemnification. The Administrator shall be liable as primary obligor
for, and shall indemnify the Owner Trustee (including in its individual capacity) and its officers,
directors, employees, successors, assigns, agents and servants (collectively, the “Indemnified
Parties”) from and against, any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, taxes (excluding
any net income, profits, franchise or similar taxes on income earned by the Owner Trustee), claims,
actions and suits, and any and all reasonable costs, expenses and disbursements (including
reasonable legal fees and expenses) of any kind and nature whatsoever (collectively, “Expenses”)
which may at any time be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against the Owner Trustee or any
Indemnified Party in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement, the Basic Documents, the
Trust Estate, the administration of the Trust Estate or the action or inaction of an Indemnified
Party hereunder, except only that the Administrator shall not be liable for or required to
indemnify an Indemnified Party from and against Expenses arising or resulting from any of the
matters described in the third sentence of Section 7.01. The indemnities contained in this Section
shall survive the resignation or termination of the Owner Trustee or the termination of this
Agreement. In the event of any claim, action or proceeding for which indemnity will be sought
pursuant to this Section, the Indemnified Party’s choice of legal counsel shall be subject to the
approval of the Administrator, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld.
Section 8.03 Payments to the Owner Trustee. Any amounts paid pursuant to this Article
VIII may be paid as set forth in Section 4.16 and Section 5.05(b) of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement and shall be deemed not to be a part of the Trust Estate immediately after such payment.
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ARTICLE 9.
TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT
TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT
Section 9.01 Termination of Trust Agreement.
(a) This Agreement (other than Section 5.05 and Article VIII) and the Trust shall terminate
and be of no further force or effect upon the final distribution by the Owner Trustee of all moneys
or other property or proceeds of the Trust Estate in accordance with the terms of the Indenture,
the Sale and Servicing Agreement and Article V. The bankruptcy, liquidation, dissolution, death or
incapacity of any Certificateholder shall not (i) operate to terminate this Agreement or the Trust,
(ii) entitle such Certificateholder’s legal representatives or heirs to claim an accounting or to
take any action or proceeding in any court for a partition or winding up of all or any part of the
Trust or Trust Estate or (iii) otherwise affect the rights, obligations and liabilities of the
parties hereto.
(b) Except as provided in Section 9.01(a), neither the Depositor nor any Certificateholder
shall be entitled to revoke or terminate the Trust.
(c) Notice of any termination of the Trust, specifying the Payment Date upon which
Certificateholders shall surrender their Trust Certificates to the Paying Agent for payment of the
final distribution and cancellation, shall be given by the Owner Trustee by letter to the
Certificateholders mailed within five Business Days of receipt of notice of such termination from
the Servicer given pursuant to Section 9.01 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, stating (i) the
Payment Date upon or with respect to which final payment of the Trust Certificates shall be made
upon presentation and surrender of the Trust Certificates at the office of the Paying Agent therein
designated, (ii) the amount of any such final payment and (iii) that the Record Date otherwise
applicable to such Payment Date is not applicable, payments being made only upon presentation and
surrender of the Trust Certificates at the office of the Paying Agent therein specified. The Owner
Trustee shall give such notice to the Certificate Registrar (if other than the Owner Trustee) and
the Paying Agent at the time such notice is given to the Certificateholders. Upon presentation and
surrender of the Trust Certificates, the Paying Agent shall cause to be distributed to the
Certificateholders amounts distributable on such Payment Date pursuant to Section 5.02.
In the event that all of the Certificateholders shall not surrender their Trust Certificates
for cancellation within six months after the date specified in the above mentioned written notice,
the Owner Trustee shall give a second written notice to the remaining Certificateholders to
surrender their Trust Certificates for cancellation and receive the final distribution with respect
thereto. If within one year after the second notice all the Trust Certificates shall not have been
surrendered for cancellation, the Owner Trustee may take appropriate steps, or may appoint an agent
to take appropriate steps, to contact the remaining Certificateholders concerning surrender of
their Trust Certificates, and the cost thereof shall be paid out of the funds and other assets that
shall remain subject to this Agreement. Any funds remaining in the Trust after exhaustion of such
remedies shall be distributed by the Owner Trustee to the Depositor, subject to applicable escheat
laws.
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(d) Upon the winding up of the Trust and the written instructions of the Depositor, the Owner
Trustee shall cause the Certificate of Trust to be cancelled by filing a certificate of
cancellation with the Secretary of State in accordance with the provisions of Section 3810 of the
Statutory Trust Act. Thereupon the Trust and this Agreement (other than Article VIII) shall
terminate.
ARTICLE 10.
SUCCESSOR OWNER TRUSTEES AND ADDITIONAL OWNER TRUSTEES
SUCCESSOR OWNER TRUSTEES AND ADDITIONAL OWNER TRUSTEES
Section 10.01 Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee. The Owner Trustee shall at
all times be a corporation satisfying the provisions of Section 3807(a) of the Statutory Trust Act;
authorized to exercise corporate trust powers; having a combined capital and surplus of at least
$50,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authorities; and having
(or having a parent that has) time deposits that are rated at least A-1 by Standard & Poor’s and
P-1 by Moody’s, or which is otherwise acceptable to each Rating Agency. If such corporation shall
publish reports of condition at least annually pursuant to law or to the requirements of the
aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the purpose of this Section, the combined
capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as
set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. In case at any time the Owner
Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, the Owner
Trustee shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in Section 10.02.
Section 10.02 Resignation or Removal of Owner Trustee. The Owner Trustee may at any
time resign and be discharged from the trusts hereby created by giving written notice thereof to
the Administrator, the Indenture Trustee and the Rating Agencies. Upon receiving such notice of
resignation, the Administrator shall promptly appoint a successor Owner Trustee by written
instrument, in duplicate, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the resigning Owner
Trustee and one copy to the successor Owner Trustee. If no successor Owner Trustee shall have been
so appointed and have accepted appointment within 30 days after the giving of such notice of
resignation, the resigning Owner Trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor Owner Trustee.
If at any time the Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions
of Section 10.01 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Administrator, or
if at any time the Owner Trustee shall be legally unable to act, or shall be adjudged bankrupt or
insolvent, or a receiver of the Owner Trustee or of its property shall be appointed, or any public
officer shall take charge or control of the Owner Trustee or of its property or affairs for the
purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation, then the Administrator may remove the Owner
Trustee. If the Administrator shall remove the Owner Trustee under the authority of the
immediately preceding sentence, the Administrator shall promptly appoint a successor Owner Trustee
by written instrument, in duplicate, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the
outgoing Owner Trustee so removed and one copy to the successor Owner Trustee, and shall pay all
fees owed to the outgoing Owner Trustee.
Any resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee and appointment of a successor Owner Trustee
pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section shall not become effective until acceptance of
appointment by the successor Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 10.03 and
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payment of all fees and expenses owed to the outgoing Owner Trustee. The Administrator shall
provide notice of such resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee to each Rating Agency.
Section 10.03 Successor Owner Trustee. Any successor Owner Trustee appointed pursuant
to Section 10.01 or 10.02 shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Administrator and to its
predecessor Owner Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment under this Agreement, and
thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor Owner Trustee shall become effective, and
such successor Owner Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become fully
vested with all the rights, powers, duties and obligations of its predecessor under this Agreement,
with like effect as if originally named as Owner Trustee. The predecessor Owner Trustee shall,
upon payment of its fees and expenses, deliver to the successor Owner Trustee all documents and
statements and monies held by it under this Agreement; and the Administrator and the predecessor
Owner Trustee shall execute and deliver such instruments and do such other things as may reasonably
be required for fully and certainly vesting and confirming in the successor Owner Trustee all such
rights, powers, duties and obligations.
No successor Owner Trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this Section unless at the
time of such acceptance such successor Owner Trustee shall be eligible pursuant to Section 10.01.
Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor Owner Trustee pursuant to this Section, the
Administrator shall mail notice thereof to all Certificateholders, the Servicer, the Indenture
Trustee, the Noteholders and the Rating Agencies. If the Administrator shall fail to mail such
notice within 10 days after acceptance of such appointment by the successor Owner Trustee, the
successor Owner Trustee shall cause such notice to be mailed at the expense of the Administrator.
Any successor Owner Trustee appointed pursuant to this Section 10.03 shall promptly file an
amendment to the Certificate of Trust with the Secretary of State identifying the name and
principal place of business of such successor Owner Trustee in the State of Delaware.
Section 10.04 Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee. Any Person into which the
Owner Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any Person
resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Owner Trustee shall be a party,
or any Person succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Owner
Trustee, shall be the successor of the Owner Trustee hereunder, without the execution or filing of
any instrument or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the
contrary notwithstanding; provided, that such Person shall be eligible pursuant to Section 10.01;
and provided further, that the Owner Trustee shall mail notice of such merger or consolidation to
each Rating Agency; and provided further, that such successor Owner Trustee shall file an amendment
to the Certificate of Trust as described in Section 10.03.
Section 10.05 Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee. Notwithstanding any
other provisions of this Agreement, at any time, for the purpose of meeting any legal requirements
of any jurisdiction in which any part of the Trust Estate or any Financed Vehicle may at the time
be located, the Administrator and the Owner Trustee acting jointly shall have the power and shall
execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more Persons approved by
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the Administrator and Owner Trustee to act as co-trustee, jointly with the Owner Trustee, or
as separate trustee or separate trustees, of all or any part of the Trust Estate, and to vest in
such Person, in such capacity, such title to the Trust Estate or any part thereof and, subject to
the other provisions of this Section, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the
Administrator and the Owner Trustee may consider necessary or desirable. If the Administrator
shall not have joined in such appointment within 15 days after the receipt by it of a request so to
do, the Owner Trustee alone shall have the power to make such appointment. No co-trustee or
separate trustee under this Agreement shall be required to meet the terms of eligibility as a
successor Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 10.01 and no notice of the appointment of any
co-trustee or separate trustee shall be required pursuant to Section 10.03.
Each separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent permitted by law, be appointed and
act subject to the following provisions and conditions:
(a) All rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed upon the Owner Trustee
shall be conferred upon and exercised or performed by the Owner Trustee and such separate trustee
or co-trustee jointly (it being understood that such separate trustee or co-trustee is not
authorized to act separately without the Owner Trustee joining in such act), except to the extent
that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts are to be performed, the
Owner Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform such act or acts, in which event such
rights, powers, duties and obligations (including the holding of title to the Trust Estate or any
portion thereof in any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised and performed singly by such separate
trustee or co-trustee, but solely at the direction of the Owner Trustee;
(b) No trustee under this Agreement shall be personally liable by reason of any act or
omission of any other trustee under this Agreement; and
(c) The Administrator and the Owner Trustee acting jointly may at any time accept the
resignation of or remove any separate trustee or co-trustee.
Any notice, request or other writing given to the Owner Trustee shall be deemed to have been
given to each of the then separate trustees and co-trustees, as effectively as if given to each of
them. Every instrument appointing any separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Agreement
and the conditions of this Article. Each separate trustee and co-trustee, upon its acceptance of
the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or property specified in its instrument of
appointment, either jointly with the Owner Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein,
subject to all the provisions of this Agreement, specifically including every provision of this
Agreement relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or affording protection to, the
Owner Trustee. Each such instrument shall be filed with the Owner Trustee and a copy thereof given
to the Administrator.
Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time appoint the Owner Trustee as its agent or
attorney-in-fact with full power and authority, to the extent not prohibited by law, to do any
lawful act under or in respect of this Agreement on its behalf and in its name. If any separate
trustee or co-trustee shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of its
estates, properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be exercised by the Owner
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Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the appointment of a new or successor
co-trustee or separate trustee.
ARTICLE 11.
MISCELLANEOUS
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 11.01 Supplements and Amendments. This Agreement may be amended by the
Depositor and the Owner Trustee, with prior written notice to each Rating Agency, without the
consent of any of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders, to cure any ambiguity, to correct or
supplement any provisions in this Agreement or for the purpose of adding any provisions to or
changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions in this Agreement or of modifying in
any manner the rights of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders; provided, however, that such
action shall not, as evidenced by the satisfaction of the Rating Agency Condition with respect to
such amendment, materially and adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any
Noteholder or Certificateholder; provided, further, that such amendment shall not be deemed to
adversely affect in any material respect the interest of any Noteholder or Certificateholder if the
person requesting such amendment obtains a letter from the Rating Agencies stating that the
amendment would not result in the downgrading or withdrawal of the ratings then assigned to the
Notes and Trust Certificates.
This Agreement may also be amended from time to time by the Depositor and the Owner Trustee,
with prior written notice to each Rating Agency, with the consent of the Holders (as defined in the
Indenture) of the Controlling Class of Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the Outstanding
Amount of the Notes and the consent of the Holders of Trust Certificates evidencing not less than a
majority of the Certificate Percentage Interests, for the purpose of adding any provisions to or
changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Agreement or of modifying in
any manner the rights of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders; provided, however, that no such
amendment shall (a) reduce the interest rate or principal amount of any Note or Certificate or
delay the Stated Maturity Date of any Note without the consent of the Holder of such Note or (b)
reduce the aforesaid percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes and the Certificate
Percentage Interest required to consent to any such amendment, without the consent of the Holders
of all then-outstanding Notes and Trust Certificates.
This Agreement may be amended by the Depositor and the Owner Trustee to modify the provisions
of Section 3 to change the permitted purposes and powers of the Trust; provided, however, that (i)
the Indenture Trustee shall receive an Opinion of Counsel stating that such amendment will not have
a material adverse effect on any Noteholder and (ii) such amendment shall not, as evidenced by the
satisfaction of the Rating Agency Condition with respect to such amendment, materially and
adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any Noteholder or Certificateholder.
Promptly after the execution of any such amendment or consent, the Owner Trustee shall furnish
written notification of the substance of such amendment or consent to each Certificateholder, the
Indenture Trustee and each Rating Agency.
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It shall not be necessary for the consent of Certificateholders or Noteholders pursuant to
this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment or consent, but it shall be
sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance thereof. The manner of obtaining such
consents (and any other consents of Certificateholders provided for in this Agreement or in any
other Basic Document) and of evidencing the authorization of the execution thereof by
Certificateholders shall be subject to such reasonable requirements as the Owner Trustee may
prescribe.
Promptly after the execution of any amendment to the Certificate of Trust, the Owner Trustee
shall cause the filing of such amendment with the Secretary of State.
Prior to the execution of any amendment to this Agreement or the Certificate of Trust, the
Owner Trustee shall be entitled to receive and rely upon an Opinion of Counsel stating that the
execution of such amendment is authorized or permitted by this Agreement. The Owner Trustee may,
but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such amendment that affects the Owner Trustee’s own
rights, duties or immunities under this Agreement or otherwise.
In connection with the execution of any amendment to this Agreement or any amendment of any
other agreement to which the Trust is a party, the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to receive and
conclusively rely upon an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such amendment is authorized or
permitted by the Basic Documents and that all conditions precedent in the Basic Documents for the
execution and delivery thereof by the Trust or the Owner Trustee, as the case may be, have been
satisfied.
Section 11.02 No Legal Title to Trust Estate in Certificateholders. Neither the
Depositor nor the Certificateholders shall have legal title to any part of the Trust Estate. The
Certificateholders shall be entitled to receive distributions with respect to their undivided
ownership interest therein only in accordance with Articles V and IX. No transfer, by operation of
law or otherwise, of any right, title or interest of the Certificateholders to and in their
ownership interest in the Trust Estate shall operate to terminate this Agreement or the trusts
hereunder or entitle any transferee to an accounting or to the transfer to it of legal title to any
part of the Trust Estate.
Section 11.03 Limitations on Rights of Others. The provisions of this Agreement are
solely for the benefit of the Owner Trustee, the Depositor, the Certificateholders, the
Administrator and, to the extent expressly provided herein, the Indenture Trustee and the
Noteholders, and nothing in this Agreement, whether express or implied, shall be construed to give
to any other Person any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim in the Trust Estate or under or
in respect of this Agreement or any covenants, conditions or provisions contained herein.
Section 11.04 Notices.
(a) Unless otherwise expressly specified or permitted by the terms hereof, all notices shall
be in writing and shall be deemed given upon receipt by the intended recipient or three Business
Days after mailing if mailed by certified mail, postage prepaid (except that notice to the Owner
Trustee shall be deemed given only upon actual receipt by the Owner Trustee), if to the Owner
Trustee, addressed to the Corporate Trust Office; if to the Depositor, addressed to
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00000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, XX 00000, Attention: Vice President, Finance, with a
copy to General Counsel; or, as to each party, at such other address as shall be designated by such
party in a written notice to each other party. A copy of any such notice shall also be mailed to
the Servicer, addressed to 00000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, XX 00000, Attention: Vice
President, Finance, with a copy to General Counsel.
(b) Any notice required or permitted to be given to a Certificateholder shall be given by
first class mail, postage prepaid, at the address of such Certificateholder as shown in the
Certificate Register. Any notice so mailed within the time prescribed in this Agreement shall be
conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not such Certificateholder receives such
notice.
Section 11.05 Severability. Any provision of this Agreement that is prohibited or
unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of
such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any
such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render
unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.
Section 11.06 Separate Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed by the parties
hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be an original,
but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
Section 11.07 Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements contained herein
shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, each of the Depositor and its permitted
assignees, the Owner Trustee and its successors and each Certificateholder and its successors and
permitted assigns, all as herein provided. Any request, notice, direction, consent, waiver or
other instrument or action by a Certificateholder shall bind the successors and assigns of such
Certificateholder.
Section 11.08 Covenants of the Depositor. The Depositor will not at any time
institute against the Trust any bankruptcy proceedings under any United States federal or state
bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Trust Certificates,
the Notes, this Agreement or any of the other Basic Documents.
Section 11.09 No Petition. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the
Owner Trustee, by entering into this Agreement, each Certificateholder, by accepting a Trust
Certificate, and the Indenture Trustee and each Noteholder, by accepting the benefits of this
Agreement, hereby covenant and agree that they will not at any time institute against the Depositor
or the Trust or join in any institution against the Depositor or the Trust of, any bankruptcy
proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law in connection with
any obligations relating to the Trust Certificates, the Notes, this Agreement or any of the Basic
Documents.
Section 11.10 No Recourse.
(a) Each Certificateholder by accepting a Trust Certificate acknowledges that such Trust
Certificate represents a beneficial interest in the Trust only and does not represent an interest
in or an obligation of the Depositor, the Servicer, the Administrator, the Owner Trustee,
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the Indenture Trustee or any Affiliate thereof and no recourse may be had against such parties
or their assets, except as may be expressly set forth or contemplated in this Agreement, the Trust
Certificates or the Basic Documents.
(b) In furtherance of and not in derogation of the foregoing, to the extent the Depositor
enters into other securitization transactions, each Certificateholder, by accepting a Trust
Certificate, acknowledges and agrees that it shall have no right, title or interest in or to any
assets or interests therein of the Depositor (other than the Trust Estate and Reserve Account
relating to this transaction) conveyed or purported to be conveyed by the Depositor to another
securitization trust or other Person or Persons in connection therewith (whether by way of a sale,
capital contribution or by virtue of the granting of a lien) (“Other Assets”). To the extent that,
notwithstanding the agreements and provisions contained herein, a Certificateholder either (i)
asserts an interest or claim to, or benefit from, Other Assets, whether asserted against or through
the Depositor or any other Person owned by the Depositor, or (ii) is deemed to have any such
interest, claim or benefit in or from Other Assets, whether by operation of law, legal process,
pursuant to applicable provisions of insolvency laws or otherwise (including by virtue of Section
1111(b) of the Federal Bankruptcy Code or any successor provision having similar effect under the
Bankruptcy Code), and whether deemed asserted against or through the Depositor or any other Person
owned by the Depositor, then each Certificateholder, by accepting a Trust Certificate, further
acknowledges and agrees that any such interest, claim or benefit in or from Other Assets is and
shall be expressly subordinated to the indefeasible payment in full of all obligations and
liabilities of the Depositor which, under the terms of the relevant documents relating to the
securitization of such Other Assets, are entitled to be paid from, entitled to the benefits of, or
otherwise secured by such Other Assets (whether or not any such entitlement or security interest is
legally perfected or otherwise entitled to priority of distribution or application under applicable
law, including insolvency laws, and whether asserted against Depositor or any other Person owned by
the Depositor), including the payment of post-petition interest on such other obligations and
liabilities. This subordination agreement shall be deemed a subordination agreement within the
meaning of Section 510(a) of the Bankruptcy Code. Each Certificateholder, by acceptance of a Trust
Certificate, further acknowledges and agrees that no adequate remedy at law exists for a breach of
this paragraph and the terms of this paragraph may be enforced by an action for specific
performance. The provisions of this paragraph shall be for the third party benefit of those
entitled to rely thereon and shall survive the termination of this Agreement.
Section 11.11 Headings. The headings of the various Articles and Sections herein are
for convenience of reference only and shall not define or limit any of the terms or provisions
hereof.
Section 11.12 GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE
OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH
SUCH LAWS.
Section 11.13 Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in
any other document, the Owner Trustee shall not be required to execute, deliver or certify on
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behalf of the Trust, the Servicer, the Depositor or any other Person any filings,
certificates, affidavits or other instruments required by the SEC or required under the
Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002. Notwithstanding any Person’s right to instruct the Owner Trustee,
neither the Owner Trustee nor any agent, employee, director or officer of the Owner Trustee shall
have any obligation to execute any certificates or other documents required by the SEC or required
pursuant to the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 or the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and
the refusal to comply with any such instructions shall not constitute a default or breach under
this Agreement or any other document in connection herewith.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Trust Agreement to be duly executed by
their respective officers hereunto duly authorized, as of the day and year first above written.
HYUNDAI ABS FUNDING CORPORATION, as Depositor |
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By: | /s/ Min Xxx Xxxxx Park | |||
Name: | Min Xxx Xxxxx Park | |||
Title: | Vice President and Secretary | |||
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WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, as Owner Trustee |
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By: | /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx | |||
Name: | Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx | |||
Title: | Assistant Vice President | |||
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HYUNDAI MOTOR FINANCE COMPANY, as Administrator |
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By: | /s/ Xxx-Xxx Xxxx | |||
Name: | Xxx-Xxx Xxxx | |||
Title: | Treasurer | |||
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EXHIBIT A
FORM OF TRUST CERTIFICATE
ASSET BACKED TRUST CERTIFICATE
(This Trust Certificate does not represent an interest in or obligation of Hyundai ABS Funding
Corporation or any of its Affiliates, except to the extent described below.) (This Trust
Certificate is subordinate to the Notes, as set forth in the Sale and Servicing Agreement)
THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY OTHER
APPLICABLE SECURITIES OR “BLUE SKY” LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION, AND MAY NOT BE RESOLD,
ASSIGNED, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
OF THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE SECURITIES OR “BLUE SKY” LAWS, PURSUANT TO AN
EXEMPTION THEREFROM OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT THERETO. THE HOLDER HEREOF, BY PURCHASING
THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE, AGREES THAT THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE MAY BE RESOLD, ASSIGNED, PLEDGED OR
TRANSFERRED ONLY (A) SO LONG AS THE CERTIFICATE IS ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT, TO A PERSON WHOM THE TRANSFEROR REASONABLY BELIEVES AFTER DUE INQUIRY IS A
QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER ACTING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT (AND NOT FOR THE ACCOUNT OF OTHERS) OR AS
A FIDUCIARY OR AGENT FOR OTHERS (WHICH OTHERS ALSO ARE QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYERS) TO WHOM
NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE RESALE, ASSIGNMENT, PLEDGE OR TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE
144A, (B) TO A UNITED STATES PERSON WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 7701(a)(30) OF THE CODE, (C)
PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (D) IN A TRANSACTION
EXEMPT FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND OTHER SECURITIES OR “BLUE SKY”
LAWS, IN WHICH CASE THE OWNER TRUSTEE SHALL REQUIRE (I) THAT THE PROSPECTIVE TRANSFEREE CERTIFY TO
THE OWNER TRUSTEE AND THE DEPOSITOR IN WRITING THE FACTS SURROUNDING SUCH TRANSFER, WHICH
CERTIFICATION SHALL BE IN FORM AND SUBSTANCE SATISFACTORY TO THE OWNER TRUSTEE AND (II) IF
REQUESTED BY THE OWNER TRUSTEE, A WRITTEN OPINION OF COUNSEL (WHICH SHALL NOT BE AT THE EXPENSE OF
THE OWNER TRUSTEE) SATISFACTORY TO THE OWNER TRUSTEE AND THE DEPOSITOR, TO THE EFFECT THAT SUCH
TRANSFER WILL NOT VIOLATE THE SECURITIES ACT, IN EACH CASE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE
SECURITIES OR “BLUE SKY” LAWS OF ANY STATE OR JURISDICTION. ANY ATTEMPTED TRANSFER IN
CONTRAVENTION OF THE IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING RESTRICTIONS WILL BE VOID AB INITIO AND THE PURPORTED
TRANSFEROR WILL CONTINUE TO BE TREATED AS THE OWNER OF THE TRUST CERTIFICATE FOR ALL PURPOSES.
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NO TRUST CERTIFICATE OR INTEREST THEREIN MAY BE ACQUIRED BY OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF (I) AN
“EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN” (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 3(3) OF ERISA) WHETHER OR NOT IT IS SUBJECT TO THE
PROVISIONS OF TITLE I OF ERISA, (II) A “PLAN” DESCRIBED IN SECTION 4975(E)(1) OF THE CODE OR (III)
ANY ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE PLAN ASSETS BY REASON OF A PLAN’S INVESTMENT IN THE
ENTITY (EACH, A “BENEFIT PLAN INVESTOR”). BY ACCEPTING AND HOLDING A TRUST CERTIFICATE, THE HOLDER
THEREOF SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED AND WARRANTED THAT IT IS NOT A BENEFIT PLAN INVESTOR.
THIS CERTIFIES THAT Hyundai ABS Funding Corporation is the registered owner of a 100%
Certificate Percentage Interest that is nonassessable, fully-paid, beneficial ownership interest in
the assets of Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2006-A (the “Trust”) formed by Hyundai ABS Funding
Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Depositor”).
The Trust is governed by an Amended and Restated Trust Agreement dated as of March 15, 2006
(the “Trust Agreement”), between the Depositor, Administrator and Wilmington Trust Company, as
owner trustee (the “Owner Trustee”), a summary of certain of the pertinent provisions of which is
set forth below. To the extent not otherwise defined herein, the capitalized terms used herein
have the meanings assigned to them in the Sale and Servicing Agreement among the Trust, the
Depositor, Hyundai Motor Finance Company, as Seller and Servicer (the “Servicer”) and Citibank,
N.A., as Indenture Trustee (“Indenture Trustee”), dated as of March 15, 2006, as the same may be
amended or supplemented from time to time.
This Certificate is one of the duly authorized Trust Certificates designated as Hyundai Auto
Receivables Trust 2006-A Asset Backed Trust Certificates (herein called the “Trust Certificates”).
Also issued under the Indenture dated as of March 15, 2006, between the Trust and the Indenture
Trustee, are seven classes of Notes, designated as 4.838% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-1, 5.13%
Asset Backed Notes, Class A-2, 5.13% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-3, 5.26% Asset Backed Notes, Class
A-4 (collectively, the “Class A Notes”), 5.29% Asset Backed Notes, Class B (the “Class B Notes”),
5.34% Asset Backed Notes, Class C (the “Class C Notes”), and 5.52% Asset Backed Notes, Class D (the
“Class D Notes” and, together with the Class A Notes, the Class B Notes, and the Class C Notes, the
“Notes”). This Trust Certificate is issued under and is subject to the terms, provisions and
conditions of the Trust Agreement, to which Trust Agreement the holder of this Trust Certificate by
virtue of the acceptance hereof assents and by which such holder is bound. Under the Trust
Agreement, there will be distributed on the 15th day of each month (or, if such
15th day is not a Business Day, the next Business Day), commencing on April 17, 2006, to
the Person in whose name this Trust Certificate is registered at the close of business on the last
day of the preceding month, such Certificateholder’s Certificate Percentage Interest of any amounts
available to be distributed to Certificateholders on such date.
The holder of this Trust Certificate acknowledges and agrees that its rights to receive
distributions in respect of this Trust Certificate are subordinated to the rights of the
Noteholders as described in the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Indenture and the Trust
Agreement, as applicable.
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It is the intent of the Depositor and the Certificateholders that, for purposes of federal
income, state and local income and franchise tax, until the Trust Certificates are beneficially
owned by more than one Person, the Trust will be disregarded as an entity separate from its owner.
At such time that the Trust Certificates are beneficially owned by more than one Person, it is the
intent of the Depositor and the Certificateholders that, for purposes of federal income, state and
local income and franchise tax, the Trust will be treated as a partnership, the assets of which are
the assets held by the Trust, and the Certificateholders will be treated as partners in that
partnership. The Depositor and the Certificateholders, by acceptance of a Trust Certificate, agree
to treat, and to take no action inconsistent with the treatment of, the Trust as such for tax
purposes.
Each Certificateholder, by its acceptance of a Trust Certificate, covenants and agrees that
such Certificateholder will not at any time institute against the Depositor, or join in or
encourage any institution against the Depositor of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement,
insolvency or liquidation proceedings, or other proceedings under any United States federal or
state bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Trust
Certificates, the Notes, the Trust Agreement or any of the Basic Documents.
Each Certificateholder by accepting a Trust Certificate acknowledges that such
Certificateholder’s Trust Certificates represent beneficial interests in the Trust only and do not
represent interests in or obligations of Depositor, the Servicer, Administrator, Seller, Owner
Trustee, Indenture Trustee or any Affiliate thereof and no recourse may be had against such parties
or their assets, except as expressly set forth or contemplated in the Trust Agreement, the Trust
Certificates or the Basic Documents. In furtherance of and not in derogation of the foregoing,
each Certificateholder, by accepting a Trust Certificate, acknowledges and agrees that it shall
have no right, title or interest in or to any assets or interests therein of the Depositor (other
than the Trust Estate and Reserve Account relating to this transaction) conveyed or purported to be
conveyed by the Depositor to another securitization trust or other Person or Persons in connection
therewith (whether by way of a sale, capital contribution or by virtue of the granting of a lien)
(“Other Assets”). To the extent that, notwithstanding the agreements and provisions contained
herein, a Certificateholder either (i) asserts an interest or claim to, or benefit from, Other
Assets, whether asserted against or through the Depositor or any other Person owned by the
Depositor, or (ii) is deemed to have any such interest, claim or benefit in or from Other Assets,
whether by operation of law, legal process, pursuant to applicable provisions of insolvency laws or
otherwise (including by virtue of Section 1111(b) of the Federal Bankruptcy Code or any successor
provision having similar effect under the Bankruptcy Code), and whether deemed asserted against or
through the Depositor or any other Person owned by the Depositor, then each Certificateholder, by
accepting a Trust Certificate, further acknowledges and agrees that any such interest, claim or
benefit in or from Other Assets is and shall be expressly subordinated to the indefeasible payment
in full of all obligations and liabilities of the Depositor which, under the terms of the relevant
documents relating to the securitization of such Other Assets, are entitled to be paid from,
entitled to the benefits of, or otherwise secured by such Other Assets (whether or not any such
entitlement or security interest is legally perfected or otherwise entitled to priority of
distribution or application under applicable law, including insolvency laws, and whether asserted
against Depositor or any other Person owned by the Depositor), including the payment of
post-petition interest on such other obligations and liabilities. This subordination agreement
shall be deemed a subordination agreement within the
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meaning of Section 510(a) of the Bankruptcy Code. Each Certificateholder, by acceptance of a
Trust Certificate, further acknowledges and agrees that no adequate remedy at law exists for a
breach of this paragraph and the terms of this paragraph may be enforced by an action for specific
performance. The provisions of this paragraph shall be for the third party benefit of those
entitled to rely thereon and shall survive the termination of the Trust Agreement.
The Trust Certificates may not be acquired by or for the account of (i) an “employee benefit
plan” (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) whether or not it is subject to the provisions of Title
I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code or (iii) any entity whose
underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan’s investment in the entity (each, a
“Benefit Plan Investor”). By accepting and holding a Trust Certificate, the Holder thereof shall
be deemed to have represented and warranted that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been executed by an authorized
officer of Owner Trustee, by manual signature, this Trust Certificate shall not entitle the holder
hereof to any benefit under the Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement or be valid for
any purpose.
THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF
DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND
REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Owner Trustee, on behalf of the Trust and not in its individual capacity,
has caused this Trust Certificate to be duly executed.
HYUNDAI AUTO RECEIVABLES TRUST 2006-A | ||||||||||
By: | WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its individual capacity, but solely as Owner Trustee | |||||||||
Dated:
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By: | |||||||||
Authorized Signatory |
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OWNER TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Trust Certificates referred to in the within-mentioned Trust Agreement.
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, as Owner Trustee |
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By: | ||||
Name: | ||||
Title: | ||||
OR | ||||
CITIBANK, N.A., as Authenticating Agent for the Owner Trustee |
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By: | ||||
Name: | ||||
Title: |
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EXHIBIT B
ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto
the within Trust Certificate, and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and
appoints ,attorney, to transfer said Trust Certificate on the books of the Certificate
Registrar, with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated:
Signature Guaranteed:
NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of the registered owner
as it appears on the face of the within Trust Certificate in every particular, without alteration,
enlargement or any change whatever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor
institution” meeting the requirements of the Certificate Registrar, which requirements include
membership or participation in STAMP or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be
determined by the Certificate Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in
accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
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EXHIBIT C
FORM OF TRANSFEREE CERTIFICATE
[Date]
as Issuer
c/o Wilmington Trust Company,
as Owner Trustee
Wilmington Trust Company,
as Owner Trustee
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In connection with our proposed purchase of [___]% Certificate Percentage Interest Asset
Backed Trust Certificates (the “Trust Certificates”) of Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2006-A (the
“Issuer”), a trust formed by Hyundai ABS Funding Corporation (the “Depositor”), we confirm that:
a. We are a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A (“QIB”) and are acquiring
the Trust Certificate for our own institutional account (and not for the account of others) or as a
fiduciary or agent for others (which others also are QIBs);
b. We acknowledge that the Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under
the Securities Act or the securities laws of any jurisdiction;
c. We are familiar with Rule 144A and are aware that the sale is being made in reliance on
Rule 144A and we are not acquiring the Trust Certificates with a view to, or for resale in
connection with, a distribution that would constitute a public offering within the meaning of the
Securities Act or a violation of the Securities Act, and that, if in the future we decide to
resell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any Trust Certificates, such Trust Certificates may be
resold, assigned, pledged or transferred only (i) to the Depositor or any Affiliate thereof, (ii)
so long as such Trust Certificate is eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a person whom we
reasonably believe after due inquiry is a QIB acting for its own account (and not for the account
of others) or as a fiduciary or agent for others (which others also are QIBs) to whom notice is
given that the resale, pledge, assignment or transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, (iii)
pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (iv) in a sale, pledge
or other transfer made in a transaction otherwise exempt from the registration requirements of the
Securities Act, in which case (A) the Owner Trustee will require that both the prospective
transferor and the prospective transferee certify to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing
the facts surrounding such transfer, which certification shall be in form and substance
satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor and (B) the Owner Trustee will require a
written opinion of counsel (which will not be at the expense of the Depositor or the Owner Trustee)
satisfactory to the Depositor and the Owner Trustee to the effect that such transfer will not
violate the Securities Act, in each case in accordance with any applicable securities or “Blue Sky”
laws of any state of the United States;
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d. We have neither acquired nor will we transfer any Trust Certificate we purchase (or any
interest therein) or cause any such Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) to be marketed on
or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(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.
e. We either (A) are not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or
grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (or a disregarded entity of any of the
foregoing) or (B) are such an entity, but none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any
of the interests in us have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or, if the
Owner Trustee has received an Opinion of Counsel in form and substance acceptable to the Depositor
that the proposed transfer to such transferee will not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly
traded partnership within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code, such other percentage as the
Owner Trustee may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such
interests in us to be attributable to our ownership of Trust Certificates.
f. We (A) are acquiring the Trust Certificate for the account of [___] Persons and we will
notify the Owner Trustee of any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) understand that any
such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Trust Certificate is held shall require
the written consent of the Owner Trustee, which consent shall be granted unless the Owner Trustee
determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Trust would
be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly
traded partnership) taxable as a corporation.
g. We understand that no subsequent transfer of the Trust Certificates is permitted unless (A)
such transfer is of a Trust Certificate with a Certificate Percentage Interest of at least 5%, (B)
we cause the proposed transferee to provide to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor a letter
substantially in the form of this Exhibit C to the Trust Agreement or such other written statement
as the Owner Trustee shall prescribe and (C) the Trust consents in writing to the proposed
transfer, which consent shall be granted unless the Owner Trustee determines that such transfer
would create a risk that the 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 registered holders of
Trust Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 100 or otherwise cause the Trust to become a publicly
traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer.
h. We understand that the Opinion of Counsel to the Trust that the Trust is not a publicly
traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of the
representations in paragraphs (d), (e), (f) and (g) above.
i. We are a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.
j. No Trust Certificate will be acquired or held by or for the account of (i) an employee
benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) whether or not it is subject to the provisions
of Title I of ERISA, (ii) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code or (iii) any entity
whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan’s investment in the entity.
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Each Person who acquires any Trust Certificate or interest therein will certify that the
foregoing conditions are satisfied.
k. We are aware that we (or any account for which we are purchasing) may be required to bear
the economic risk of an investment in the Trust Certificates for an indefinite period, and we (or
such account) are able to bear such risk for an indefinite period.
l. We understand that the Trust Certificates will bear legends substantially as set forth in
Section 3.12 of the Trust Agreement;
m. If we are acquiring any Trust Certificates for the account of one or more QIB, we represent
that we have sole investment discretion with respect to each such account and that we have full
power to make the foregoing acknowledgments, representations and agreements on behalf of each such
account; and
n. We acknowledge that the Owner Trustee, the Depositor, and their Affiliates, and others will
rely upon the truth and accuracy of the foregoing acknowledgments, representations and agreements.
You are entitled to rely upon this letter and are irrevocably authorized to produce this
letter or a copy hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceedings or
official inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby.
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EXHIBIT D
FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF TRUST OF
HYUNDAI AUTO RECEIVABLES TRUST 2006-A
HYUNDAI AUTO RECEIVABLES TRUST 2006-A
This CERTIFICATE OF TRUST of HYUNDAI AUTO RECEIVABLES TRUST 2006-A (the “Trust”), is being
duly executed and filed by WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, a Delaware banking corporation, as owner
trustee, to form a statutory trust under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act (12 Del. Code, ss. 3801
et seq.) (the “Act”).
1. Name. The name of the statutory trust formed hereby is HYUNDAI AUTO RECEIVABLES
TRUST 2006-A.
2. Delaware Trustee. The name and business address of the trustee of the Trust in the
State of Delaware is Wilmington Trust Company, Xxxxxx Square North, 0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Corporate Trust Administrators.
3. Effective Date. This Certificate of Trust shall be effective upon filing with the
Secretary of State.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being the sole owner trustee of the Trust, has executed
this Certificate of Trust pursuant to Section 3811 (a) of the Act.
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, as owner trustee |
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