SALE AND SERVICING AGREEMENT among FORD CREDIT AUTO OWNER TRUST 2009-B, as Issuer, FORD CREDIT AUTO RECEIVABLES TWO LLC, as Depositor and FORD MOTOR CREDIT COMPANY LLC, as Servicer Dated as of May 1, 2009
Exhibit
99.1
Execution
Copy
among
as
Issuer,
FORD
CREDIT AUTO RECEIVABLES TWO LLC,
as
Depositor
and
FORD
MOTOR CREDIT COMPANY LLC,
as
Servicer
Dated as
of May 1, 2009
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
ARTICLE
I
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USAGE
AND DEFINITIONS
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1
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Section
1.1.
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Usage
and Definitions
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1
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ARTICLE
II
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TRUST
PROPERTY; REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE
DEPOSITOR; CUSTODIAN
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1
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Section
2.1.
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Sale
of Trust Property
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1
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Section
2.2.
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Savings
Clause
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1
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Section
2.3.
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Representations
and Warranties of the Depositor About the Receivables.
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2
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Section
2.4.
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Repurchase
of Receivables Upon Breach of Representations or Warranties by the
Depositor.
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2
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Section
2.5.
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Custodian.
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3
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ARTICLE
III
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ADMINISTRATION
AND SERVICING OF RECEIVABLES AND OTHER TRUST
PROPERTY
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5
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Section
3.1.
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Appointment;
Duties of the Servicer with Respect to the Servicing of the
Receivables.
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5
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Section
3.2.
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Purchase
of Receivables Upon Breach by the Servicer.
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7
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Section
3.3.
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Sales
of Charged off Receivables
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8
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Section
3.4.
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Duties
of the Servicer with Respect to the Servicing of the
Transaction; Annual Reports and Notices.
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9
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Section
3.5.
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Servicer's
Fees
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10
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Section
3.6.
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Servicer's
Expenses
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10
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ARTICLE
IV
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TRUST
ACCOUNTS; DISTRIBUTIONS; STATEMENTS TO NOTEHOLDERS AND THE
DEPOSITOR
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11
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Section
4.1.
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Accounts.
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11
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Section
4.2.
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Investment
of Funds on Deposit in the Bank Accounts.
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12
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Section
4.3.
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Remittances.
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14
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Section
4.4.
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Calculations
and Distributions; Withdrawals from the Reserve Account.
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15
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ARTICLE
V
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THE
DEPOSITOR
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15
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Section
5.1.
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Representations
and Warranties of the Depositor
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15
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Section
5.2.
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Liability
of the Depositor
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17
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Section
5.3.
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Merger
or Consolidation of, or Assumption of the Obligations of, the
Depositor
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17
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Section
5.4.
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Depositor
May Own Notes
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18
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Section
5.5.
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Depositor's
Designation of the Rating Agencies
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18
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ARTICLE
VI
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THE
SERVICER
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18
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Section
6.1.
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Representations
and Warranties of the Servicer
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18
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Section
6.2.
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Liability
of the Servicer.
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19
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Section
6.3.
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Indemnities
of the Servicer.
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20
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Section
6.4.
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Merger
or Consolidation of, or Assumption of the Obligations of, the
Servicer; Assignment to Affiliate
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21
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Section
6.5.
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Delegation
of Duties
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21
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Section
6.6.
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Ford
Credit Not to Resign as Servicer
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21
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Section
6.7.
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Servicer
May Own Notes
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22
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ARTICLE
VII
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SERVICING
TERMINATION
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22
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Section
7.1.
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Events
of Servicing Termination.
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22
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Section
7.2.
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Appointment
of Successor Servicer.
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23
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Section
7.3.
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Notification
to Secured Parties and the Holder of the Residual Interest
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25
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Section
7.4.
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Waiver
of Events of Servicing Termination
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25
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ARTICLE
VIII
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TERMINATION
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25
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Section
8.1.
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Clean-Up
Call.
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25
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ARTICLE
IX
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MISCELLANEOUS
PROVISIONS
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26
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Section
9.1.
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Amendment.
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26
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Section
9.2.
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Protection
of Right, Title and Interest to the Trust Property.
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27
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Section
9.3.
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Notices.
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28
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Section
9.4.
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Assignment
by the Depositor or the Servicer
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29
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Section
9.5.
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Third-Party
Beneficiaries
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29
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Section
9.6.
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GOVERNING
LAW
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29
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Section
9.7.
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Submission
to Jurisdiction
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29
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Section
9.8.
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WAIVER
OF JURY TRIAL
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29
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Section
9.9.
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Severability
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29
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Section
9.10.
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Counterparts
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30
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Section
9.11.
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Headings
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30
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Section
9.12.
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No
Waiver; Cumulative Remedies
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30
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Section
9.13.
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Agent
for Service.
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30
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Section
9.14.
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No
Petition
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30
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Section
9.15.
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Limitation
of Liability of Owner Trustee and Indenture Trustee.
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31
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Schedule
A
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Schedule
of Receivables
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SA-1
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Schedule
B
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Notice
Addresses
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SB-1
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Appendix
A
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Usage
and Definitions
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AA-1
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Exhibit
A
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Form
of Monthly Investor Report
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EA-1
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SALE AND
SERVICING AGREEMENT, dated as of May 1, 2009 (this "Agreement"), among
FORD CREDIT AUTO OWNER TRUST 2009-B, a Delaware statutory trust, as Issuer, FORD
CREDIT AUTO RECEIVABLES TWO LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as
Depositor, and FORD MOTOR CREDIT COMPANY LLC, a Delaware limited liability
company, as Servicer.
BACKGROUND
The
Depositor has purchased a pool of retail installment sale contracts secured by
new and used cars and light trucks from Ford Credit.
The
Depositor wishes to sell and assign and the Issuer wishes to purchase from the
Depositor such contracts and related property on the terms and conditions in
this Agreement.
The
Issuer wishes to appoint the Servicer to service the contracts and the Servicer
is willing to service the contracts for the Issuer.
ARTICLE
I
USAGE AND
DEFINITIONS
Section
1.1. Usage and
Definitions. Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined
in this Agreement are defined in Appendix A. Appendix A also contains
rules as to usage applicable to this Agreement. Appendix A is
incorporated by reference into this Agreement.
ARTICLE
II
TRUST
PROPERTY; REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
OF
THE DEPOSITOR; CUSTODIAN
Section
2.1. Sale of Trust
Property. In consideration of the Issuer's delivery to the
Depositor of Notes with an aggregate Note Balance of $1,935,300,000 and the
rights to distributions under Section 8.2 of the Indenture, the Depositor
irrevocably sells and assigns to the Issuer, without recourse (subject to the
obligations of the Depositor under this Agreement), all right, title and
interest of the Depositor, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, in and to
the Receivables and the other Trust Property. The sale made under
this Agreement does not constitute and is not intended to result in an
assumption by the Issuer of any obligation of the Depositor or Ford Credit to
the Obligors, the Dealers or any other Person in connection with the Receivables
and the other Trust Property.
Section
2.2. Savings
Clause. It is the intention of the Depositor and the Issuer
that (i) the sale and assignment pursuant to Section 2.1 constitutes an absolute
sale of the Trust Property, conveying good title free and clear of any Lien,
other than Permitted Liens, from the Depositor to the Issuer, and (ii) the Trust
Property not be a part of the Depositor's estate in the event of a bankruptcy or
insolvency of the Depositor. If, notwithstanding the intention of the
Depositor and the Issuer, such transfer is deemed to be a pledge in connection
with a financing or is otherwise deemed not to be a sale and assignment, the
Depositor Grants, and the parties intend that the Depositor Grant, to the Issuer
a first priority perfected security interest in all of the Depositor's right,
title and interest in the Trust Property to secure a loan in an amount equal to
all
amounts
payable by the Depositor under this Agreement, all amounts payable as principal
and interest on the Notes and all amounts payable as servicing fees under this
Agreement and all fees and expenses of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner
Trustee, and in such event, this Agreement will constitute a security agreement
under applicable law and the Issuer will have all of the rights and remedies of
a secured party and creditor under the UCC.
Section
2.3. Representations and
Warranties of the Depositor About the Receivables.
(a) Representations and
Warranties from the Purchase Agreement. Ford Credit made the
representations and warranties set forth in Section 3.2 of the Purchase
Agreement to the Depositor, and has consented to the transfer by the Depositor
to the Issuer of the Depositor's rights with respect to such representations and
warranties on which the Issuer is relying in acquiring the
Receivables. Pursuant to Section 2.1, the Depositor has transferred
to the Issuer all of the Depositor's rights under the Purchase Agreement,
including the right to require Ford Credit to repurchase Receivables in
accordance with the Purchase Agreement if there is a breach of Ford Credit's
representations and warranties. In addition, the Depositor represents
and warrants as of the Closing Date, which representations and warranties the
Issuer has relied on in purchasing the Receivables and will survive the sale of
the Receivables to the Issuer and the pledge of the Receivables to the Indenture
Trustee pursuant to the Indenture, that the representations and warranties set
forth in Section 3.2 of the Purchase Agreement are true and correct in all
material respects.
(b) Representations and
Warranties of the Depositor. The Depositor represents and
warrants as of the Closing Date, which representations and warranties the Issuer
has relied on in purchasing the Receivables and will survive the sale of the
Receivables to the Issuer and the pledge of the Receivables to the Indenture
Trustee pursuant to the Indenture, that:
(i) immediately
before the sale under this Agreement, the Depositor had good and marketable
title to the Receivables and other Trust Property free and clear of any Lien,
other than Permitted Liens, and
(ii) immediately
upon the sale under this Agreement, the Issuer will have good and marketable
title to the Receivables and other Trust Property, free and clear of any Lien,
other than Permitted Liens.
Section
2.4. Repurchase of Receivables
Upon Breach of Representations or Warranties by the
Depositor.
(a) If
a Responsible Person of the Depositor has actual knowledge, or receives notice
from the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee, of a breach of the
representations or warranties made by the Depositor pursuant to Section 2.3 that
materially and adversely affects any Receivable and such breach has not been
cured in all material respects by the last day of the second full Collection
Period (or, at the Depositor's option, the first full Collection Period) after
the Responsible Person obtains actual knowledge or is notified of such breach,
the Depositor will repurchase such Receivable by remitting (or causing to be
remitted) the Purchase Amount for such Receivable to the Collection Account on
the Business Day
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preceding
the Payment Date after such Collection Period (or, with Rating Agency
Confirmation, on such Payment Date). If Ford Credit is the Servicer,
the Depositor may cause any Purchase Amount to be remitted any in accordance
with Section 4.3(c).
(b) The
sole remedy for a breach of the representations and warranties of the Depositor
contained in Section 2.3 and Section 5.1 is (i) to require the Depositor to
repurchase such materially and adversely affected Receivable, or (ii) to require
the Depositor or the Indenture Trustee to enforce the obligation of Ford Credit
to repurchase such materially and adversely affected Receivable pursuant to
Section 3.3(a) of the Purchase Agreement. None of the Servicer, the
Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor or the Administrator will
have any duty to conduct an investigation as to the occurrence of any condition
requiring the repurchase of any Receivable pursuant to Section
2.4(a).
(c) When
the Purchase Amount is included in Available Funds for a Payment Date or Final
Scheduled Payment Date, as applicable, the Issuer will, without further action,
be deemed to have sold and assigned to the Depositor as of the last day of the
second preceding Collection Period all of the Issuer's right, title and interest
in and to the Receivable repurchased by the Depositor pursuant to Section 2.4(a)
and security and documents relating to such Receivable. Such sale
will not require any action by the Issuer and will be without recourse,
representation or warranty by the Issuer except the representation that the
Issuer owns the Receivable free and clear of any Liens other than Permitted
Liens. Upon such sale, the Servicer will xxxx its computer records to
indicate that such receivable is no longer a Receivable and take any action
necessary or appropriate to evidence the sale of such receivable, free from any
Lien of the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee.
Section
2.5. Custodian.
(a) Appointment of
Custodian. To reduce administrative costs and facilitate the
servicing of the Receivables by the Servicer, the Issuer appoints Ford Credit,
in its capacity as the Servicer, to act as the custodian of the Receivables for
the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee. Ford Credit accepts such
appointment and agrees to perform the custodial duties set forth in this Section
2.5. Ford Credit in its capacity as custodian under this Agreement is
referred to as the "Custodian."
(b) Custody of Receivables
Files. The Custodian will hold and maintain in safekeeping the
following documents and instruments for each Receivable (the "Receivables Files")
for the benefit of the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee:
(i) the
original Receivable;
(ii) the
credit application executed by the Obligor;
(iii) the
original certificate of title or such other documents evidencing the security
interest of Ford Credit in the Financed Vehicle; and
(iv) all
other documents, notices and correspondence that the Servicer generates relating
to the Receivable, the Obligor or the Financed Vehicle.
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Unless
otherwise indicated above, any document or instrument in the Receivables Files
may be a photocopy or in electronic format. The Receivables Files are
constructively delivered to the Indenture Trustee, as pledgee of the Issuer
pursuant to the Indenture, and the Custodian confirms to the Issuer and the
Indenture Trustee that it has received the Receivables Files. No
initial review or any periodic review of the Receivables Files by the Issuer,
the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee is required.
(c) Maintenance and Safekeeping
of the Receivables Files. The Custodian will accurately
maintain and keep current the Receivables Files, including any computer systems
on which the Receivables Files are electronically stored, all in a manner that
will permit the Servicer and the Issuer to comply with this Agreement and the
Indenture Trustee to comply with the Indenture. The Custodian will
act with reasonable care and in accordance with the Credit and Collection Policy
in performing its duties as custodian. The Custodian will promptly
take appropriate action to remedy any material failure on its part to hold the
Receivables Files and maintain its computer systems as provided in this
Agreement and will report to the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee any such
material failure that it is unable to remedy within a reasonable
time. The Custodian may destroy any document (other than the original
Receivable or certificate of title) in any Receivable File and store such
document in an electronic format in accordance with the Credit and Collection
Policy.
(d) Location of Receivables
Files. The Custodian will maintain the Receivables Files (or
access to any Receivables Files stored in an electronic format) at one of its
offices or the offices of one of its custodians in the United
States. Upon request, the Custodian will provide a list of locations
of the Receivables Files to the Depositor, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee,
or their representatives, attorneys or auditors.
(e) Access to Receivables
Files. The Custodian will provide the Depositor, the Issuer
and the Indenture Trustee with access to the Receivables Files and the related
computer systems at offices designated by the Custodian without charge, but only
upon reasonable request, during normal business hours. Such access
will be subject to the Custodian's security and confidentiality procedures and
the terms and conditions of a confidentiality agreement satisfactory to the
Custodian. Nothing in this Section 2.5(e) will affect the obligation
of the Indenture Trustee or the Custodian to observe any applicable privacy and
confidentiality law prohibiting disclosures of information regarding the
Obligors and the failure of the Custodian to provide access as a result of such
obligations will not constitute a breach of this Section 2.5(e).
(f) Effective Period and
Termination of Custodian. Ford Credit's appointment as
custodian is effective as of the Cutoff Date and will continue until terminated
pursuant to this Section 2.5(f). If Ford Credit resigns as Servicer
in accordance with Section 6.6 or the Servicer is terminated pursuant to Section
7.1, the appointment of Ford Credit as custodian under this Agreement may be
terminated in the same manner as the Servicer may be terminated under Section
7.1. As soon as practicable after any termination of its appointment
as custodian, the Custodian will deliver to the Indenture Trustee or its agent
or designee the Receivables Files maintained by the Custodian at such place as
the Indenture Trustee may reasonably designate. All reasonable costs
and expenses incurred in connection with transferring the Receivables Files to
the successor custodian and amending this Agreement to reflect such successor as
custodian
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will be
paid by the predecessor custodian upon presentation of documentation of such
costs and expenses.
(g) Servicer's Access to
Receivables Files; Indemnity. Notwithstanding any termination
of the Custodian pursuant to Section 2.5(f), the Servicer will be entitled to
access the Receivables Files and, upon request from the Servicer, the successor
custodian will promptly release any document in the Receivables Files to the
Servicer. The Issuer will indemnify, defend and hold harmless the
Servicer against any and all costs, expenses, losses, claims and liabilities
resulting from the failure by a successor custodian to release Receivables Files
to the Servicer in a timely manner.
(h) Custodian as Nominee
Lienholder/Secured Party. For administrative convenience and
to further facilitate the servicing of the Receivables by the Servicer, the
Issuer appoints Ford Credit, in its capacity as Custodian and Servicer, as
nominee lienholder/secured party to act for the benefit and on behalf of the
Issuer and the Indenture Trustee with respect to the original certificates of
title or such other documents evidencing the security interest of the Issuer in
the Financed Vehicles (the "Security
Documents"). In addition, if the assignment of a Receivable
from Ford Credit to the Depositor pursuant to the Purchase Agreement and from
the Depositor to the Issuer pursuant to this Agreement is insufficient, without
a notation on the related Financed Vehicle's certificate of title, to provide
the Issuer a first priority perfect security interest in the related Finance
Vehicle, the Custodian, in its capacity as nominee lienholder/secured party,
agrees that it is acting as the agent of the Issuer for the purpose of
perfecting the security interest of the Issuer in such Financed Vehicle and
agrees that Ford Credit's listing as the lienholder/secured party on such
certificate of title is in its capacity as agent of the Issuer. The
Custodian hereby agrees to serve as nominee lienholder/secured party and agent
with respect to the Financed Vehicles and will, as nominee lienholder/secured
party and agent: (i) act exclusively for the benefit and on behalf of the Issuer
and the Indenture Trustee pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, and (ii) take
any and all actions necessary or advisable in order to establish, maintain,
preserve and protect the Issuer's security interest in the Financed
Vehicles. The Custodian further acknowledges the right of the Issuer
to treat the Security Documents in all respects as if the name of the Issuer
appeared on such documents as lienholder/secured party in place of Ford Credit's
name.
ARTICLE
III
ADMINISTRATION
AND SERVICING OF RECEIVABLES
AND OTHER
TRUST PROPERTY
Section
3.1. Appointment; Duties of the
Servicer with Respect to the Servicing of the Receivables.
(a) Appointment and General
Duties. The Issuer appoints Ford Credit to act as the Servicer
of the Receivables for the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee. The
Servicer will manage, service, administer and collect on the Receivables with
reasonable care using that degree of skill and attention that the Servicer
exercises with respect to all comparable automotive receivables that it services
for itself or others and in accordance with the Credit and Collection
Policy. The Servicer's duties will include:
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(i) collecting
and applying all payments made on the Receivables,
(ii) investigating
delinquencies,
(iii) sending
invoices and responding to inquiries of Obligors,
(iv) processing
requests for extensions and modifications,
(v) administering
payoffs, defaults and delinquencies,
(vi) repossessing
and then selling the Financed Vehicle securing any Receivable that the Servicer
determines is unlikely to eventually be paid in full,
(vii) maintaining
accurate and complete accounts and computer systems pertaining to servicing the
Receivables,
(viii) providing
to the Custodian copies, or access to, any documents, instruments, notices and
correspondence that modify information contained in the Receivables Files,
and
(ix) furnishing
Monthly Investor Reports and any other periodic reports required by the
transaction documents.
In
performing its duties as servicer of the Receivables, the Servicer will comply
with all material requirements of federal and State laws and
regulations.
(b) Collection of Receivable
Payments; Extensions, Rebates and Adjustments on
Receivables. The Servicer will make reasonable efforts to
collect all payments due under the terms of the Receivables. The Servicer may
waive any late payment charge or any other fees that may be collected in the
ordinary course of servicing a Receivable and may grant extensions, refunds,
rebates or adjustments with respect to any Receivable or amend any Receivable,
in each case in accordance with the Credit and Collection Policy, except that if
the Servicer (i) grants payment extensions on a Receivable that extend the final
payment date of the Receivable more than six months past the last original
scheduled payment date of any Receivable in the securitized pool, (ii) modifies
the Amount Financed under a Receivable, (iii) modifies the APR of a Receivable,
or (iv) increases the number of originally scheduled due dates of the
Receivable, it will purchase the Receivable in the manner provided in Section
3.2, unless it is required to take such action under law or pursuant to a court
order.
(c) Maintenance of Security
Interests in Financed Vehicles. The Servicer will take all
necessary steps to maintain perfection of the security interest created by each
Receivable in the related Financed Vehicle. The Issuer authorizes the
Servicer to take all actions necessary to continue perfection of such security
interest on behalf of the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee if a Financed Vehicle
is relocated to another State or for any other reason. Unless
required by law or court order, the Servicer will not release any Financed
Vehicle from the security interest granted by the related Receivable, except (i)
upon payment in full of the Receivable, (ii) in order to receive proceeds from
insurance covering such Financed Vehicle, (iii) upon repossession,
(iv)
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upon
discounted settlement of the Receivable, or (v) upon abandonment, in each case
in accordance with the Credit and Collection Policy.
(d) No
Impairment. The Servicer will not impair in any material
respect the rights of the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee in the Receivables
except in accordance with the Credit and Collection Policy or as otherwise
permitted by this Agreement.
(e) Other
Action.
(i) Effective
as of the date of this Agreement, all Receivables are assigned to the Servicer
solely for the purpose of fulfilling the Servicer's duties under this Agreement,
including commencement of or participation in legal proceedings to enforce a
Receivable or otherwise related to a Receivable. If in any
enforcement suit or legal proceeding it is held that the Servicer may not
enforce a Receivable on the ground that it is not a real party in interest or a
holder entitled to enforce the Receivable, the Owner Trustee, on behalf of the
Issuer, will, at the Servicer's expense and direction, assign the Receivable to
the Servicer solely for such purpose or take steps to enforce the Receivable,
including bringing suit in the names of the Indenture Trustee, the Noteholders,
the Issuer or any of them. On request of the Servicer, the Owner
Trustee will furnish the Servicer with any powers of attorney and other
documents reasonably necessary or appropriate to enable the Servicer to carry
out its servicing and administrative duties under this Agreement.
(ii) The
Servicer is authorized to execute and deliver, on behalf of itself, the Issuer,
the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Noteholders, or any of them, any
instruments of satisfaction, cancellation, partial or full release or discharge,
and any other comparable instruments, with respect to the Receivables and the
Financed Vehicles.
Section
3.2. Purchase of Receivables Upon
Breach by the Servicer.
(a) (i) If
a Responsible Person of the Servicer has actual knowledge, or receives notice
from the Depositor, the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee, of a
breach of the covenants set forth in Sections 3.1(c) or (d) and such breach is
not cured in all material respects by the end of the second full Collection
Period (or, at the Servicer's option, the first full Collection Period) after
the Responsible Person obtained actual knowledge or was notified of such breach,
the Servicer will purchase each Receivable materially and adversely affected by
such breach by remitting the Purchase Amount for such Receivable to the
Collection Account on the Business Day preceding the Payment Date after such
Collection Period (or, with Rating Agency Confirmation, on such Payment
Date).
(ii) Upon
the occurrence of any of the conditions requiring purchase of a Receivable set
forth in Section 3.1(b), the Servicer will repurchase the Receivable affected by
such occurrence by remitting the Purchase Amount for such Receivable to the
Collection Account on the Business Day preceding the Payment Date after the
Collection Period (or, with Rating Agency Confirmation, on such Payment Date) in
which such modification is made.
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(iii) If
the Servicer, in its sole discretion, determines that as a result of a computer
systems error or computer systems limitation or for any other reason the
Servicer is unable to service any Receivable in accordance with the Credit and
Collection Policy and the terms of this Agreement, the Servicer may purchase
such Receivable by remitting the Purchase Amount for such Receivable to the
Collection Account on the Business Date preceding the Payment Date after the
Collection Period (or, with Rating Agency Confirmation, on such Payment Date) in
which such determination is made.
(iv) If
Ford Credit is the Servicer, it may remit any Purchase Amounts in accordance
with Section 4.3(c).
(b) The
sole remedy (except as provided in Section 6.3) of the Issuer, the Indenture
Trustee, the Owner Trustee and the Secured Parties with respect to a breach of
the covenants made by the Servicer in Section 3.1(c) or (d) or the occurrence of
a condition specified in Section 3.1(b) is to require the Servicer to purchase
the Receivable as set forth in Section 3.2(a). None of the Owner
Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Servicer, the Depositor or the Administrator
will have any duty to conduct an investigation as to the occurrence of any
condition requiring the purchase of any Receivable pursuant to Section
3.2(a).
(c) When
the Purchase Amount is included in Available Funds for a Payment Date or Final
Scheduled Payment Date, as applicable, the Issuer will be deemed to have sold
and assigned to the Servicer as of the last day of the second preceding
Collection Period all of the Issuer's right, title and interest in and to the
Receivable purchased by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.2(a), and all
security and documents relating to such Receivable. Such sale will
not require any action by the Issuer and will be without recourse,
representation or warranty by the Issuer except the representation that the
Issuer owns the Receivable free and clear of any Liens other than Permitted
Liens. Upon such sale, the Servicer will xxxx its computer records
indicating that any receivable purchased pursuant to Section 3.2(a) is no longer
a Receivable and take any action necessary or appropriate to evidence the
transfer of ownership of the Purchased Receivable free from any Lien of the
Issuer or the Indenture Trustee.
Section
3.3. Sales of Charged off
Receivables. The Servicer, in its sole discretion, may sell a
Receivable that has been charged off in accordance with the Credit and
Collection Policy. Proceeds of any such sale allocable to the
Receivable will constitute Recoveries. If the Servicer elects to sell
any charged off Receivable, such Receivable will be deemed to have been sold and
assigned by the Trust to the Servicer immediately prior to the sale by the
Servicer. The sole right of the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee with
respect to any Receivables sold pursuant to this Section 3.3 will be to receive
the Recoveries. Upon such sale, the Servicer will xxxx its computer
records indicating that any such receivable sold is no longer a Receivable and
take any action necessary or appropriate to evidence the sale of the receivable
free from any Lien of the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee.
Section
3.4. Duties of the Servicer with
Respect to the Servicing of the Transaction; Annual Reports and
Notices.
(a) Monthly Investor
Report. On or about the 10th day of each calendar month,
commencing in the first full month after the Closing Date, the Servicer will
deliver to the
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Owner
Trustee, the Note Paying Agent, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and the
Rating Agencies, a servicing report substantially in the form of Exhibit A (the
"Monthly Investor
Report") with respect to the preceding Collection Period and the related
Payment Date. For the first Collection Period, the Servicer may
modify the form of the Monthly Investor Report as appropriate to reflect that
the first Collection Period is comprised of two calendar months, including to
report the Collections and the performance of the Receivables with respect to
each calendar month. A Responsible Person of the Servicer will
certify the accuracy of the information in each Monthly Investor
Report.
(b) Annual Statement as to
Compliance. To the extent required by Regulation AB, the
Servicer will deliver to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee
and each Rating Agency within 90 days after the end of each calendar year
beginning with the year after the Closing Date, an Officer's Certificate, dated
as of December 31 of the preceding calendar year, signed by a Responsible Person
of the Servicer to the effect that (i) a review of the Servicer's activities
during the preceding calendar year (or, in the case of the first certificate,
the portion of the preceding calendar year since the Closing Date) and of its
performance under this Agreement has been made under such Responsible Person's
supervision and (ii) to such Responsible
Person's knowledge, based on such review, the Servicer has fulfilled in all
material respects all of its obligations under this Agreement throughout such
calendar year (or applicable portion of such calendar year), or, if there has
been a failure to fulfill any such obligation in any material respect,
specifically identifying each such failure known to such Responsible Person and
the nature and status of such failure. If the Issuer is not required
to file periodic reports under the Exchange Act or otherwise required by law to
file an Officer's Certificate of the Servicer as to compliance, the Servicer may
deliver such Officer's Certificate on or before April 30 of each calendar
year. A copy of the Officer's Certificate referred to in this Section
3.4(b) may be obtained by any Noteholder or Person certifying it is a Note Owner
by a request in writing to the Indenture Trustee at its Corporate Trust
Office.
(c) Notice of Event of Servicing
Termination. The Servicer will notify the Depositor, the Owner
Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and each Rating Agency of any event that with the
giving of notice or lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of Servicing
Termination under Section 7.1, no later than five Business Days after a
Responsible Person of the Servicer obtains actual knowledge of such
event.
(d) Compliance with Obligations
under Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act. If directed by the Administrator,
the Servicer will prepare, execute and deliver all certificates or other
documents required to be delivered by the Issuer pursuant to the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx
Act of 2002.
(e) Report on Assessment of
Compliance with Servicing Criteria and Attestation. The
Servicer will:
(i) deliver
to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and each Rating
Agency, a report, dated as of December 31 of the preceding calendar year, on its
assessment of compliance with the minimum servicing criteria during the
preceding calendar year, including disclosure of any identified material
instance of non-compliance identified by the Servicer, as specified by Rule
13a-18 and 15d-18 of the Exchange Act and Item 1122 of Regulation AB under the
Securities Act; and
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(ii) cause
a firm of registered public accountants that is qualified and independent within
the meaning of Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act to deliver
an attestation report that satisfies the requirements of Rule 13a-18 or Rule
15d-18 under the Exchange Act and Item 1122 of Regulation AB, as applicable, on
the assessment of compliance with servicing criteria with respect to the prior
calendar year. Such attestation report will be addressed to the board
of directors of the Servicer and the Servicer will deliver copies to the Issuer,
the Owner Trustee, the Depositor and the Indenture Trustee. Such
attestation will be in accordance with Rules 1-02(a)(3) and 2-02(g) of
Regulation S-X under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act. The
firm may render other services to the Servicer, the Depositor or Ford Credit,
but the firm must indicate in each attestation report that it is qualified and
independent within the meaning of Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X under the
Securities Act.
The
reports referred to in this Section 3.4(e) will be delivered within 90 days
after the end of each calendar year unless the Issuer is not required to file
periodic reports under the Exchange Act or any other law, in which case the
reports may be delivered on or before April 30 of each calendar year, beginning
in the year after the Closing Date. A copy of the reports referred to
in this Section 3.4(e) may be obtained by any Noteholder or Person certifying it
is a Note Owner by a request in writing to the Indenture Trustee at its
Corporate Trust Office.
(f) Delivery of Tax Related
Information. To the extent required by law, the Servicer will
deliver to the Owner Trustee for distribution to the holder of the Residual
Interest information for the preparation of the holder of the Residual
Interest's federal and State income tax returns.
(g) Termination of Reporting
Obligation. The Servicer's obligation to deliver or cause the
delivery of reports under this Section 3.4, other than tax reports under Section
3.4(f), will terminate upon the payment in full of the Notes, including by
redemption in whole as contemplated by Section 8.1.
Section
3.5. Servicer's
Fees. On each Payment Date, the Issuer will pay the Servicing
Fee to the Servicer in accordance with Section 8.2 of the
Indenture. In addition, the Servicer will be entitled to retain all
Supplemental Servicing Fees and receive investment earnings (net of investment
losses and expenses) on funds deposited into the Bank Accounts during each
Collection Period.
Section
3.6. Servicer's
Expenses. Except as otherwise set forth in this Agreement, the
Servicer will pay all expenses incurred by it in connection with its activities
under this Agreement, including fees and disbursements of independent
accountants, taxes imposed on the Servicer and expenses incurred in connection
with distributions and reports. The Servicer may charge Obligors, and
be reimbursed, for collection, repossession, transportation and remarketing
expenses in accordance with the Credit and Collection Policy.
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ARTICLE
IV
TRUST
ACCOUNTS; DISTRIBUTIONS;
STATEMENTS
TO NOTEHOLDERS AND THE DEPOSITOR
Section
4.1. Accounts.
(a) Collection
Account. Pursuant to Section 8.2 of the Indenture, the
Indenture Trustee will establish and maintain a segregated trust account in the
name "The Bank of New York Mellon as Indenture Trustee, as secured party for
Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2009-B" at a Qualified Institution (initially the
corporate trust department of The Bank of New York Mellon), that is designated
as the "Collection
Account". The Collection Account will initially be account
number 235821. The Collection Account will be under the sole dominion
and control of the Indenture Trustee, except that the Servicer may make deposits
to and direct the Indenture Trustee to make withdrawals from the Collection
Account in accordance with this Agreement. The Servicer may direct
the Indenture Trustee to withdraw from the Collection Account and pay to the
Indenture Trustee or the Servicer, as applicable, amounts that do not constitute
Available Funds for any Collection Period or that were deposited into the
Collection Account in error.
(b) Principal Payment
Account. Pursuant to Section 8.2 of the Indenture, the
Indenture Trustee will establish and maintain a segregated trust account at a
Qualified Institution that is designated as the "Principal Payment
Account". The Principal Payment Account will initially be
account number 235823. The Principal Payment Account is established
and maintained solely for administrative purposes.
(c) Reserve
Account.
(i) Pursuant
to Section 8.2 of the Indenture, the Indenture Trustee will establish and
maintain a segregated trust account in the name "The Bank of New York Mellon as
Indenture Trustee, as secured party for Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2009-B" at
a Qualified Institution (initially the corporate trust department of The Bank of
New York Mellon), that is designated as the "Reserve
Account". The Reserve Account will initially be account number
235822. On the Closing Date, the Depositor will deposit or cause to
be deposited the Specified Reserve Balance into the Reserve Account from the net
proceeds of the sale of the Notes. The Reserve Account will be under
the sole dominion and control of the Indenture Trustee, except that the Servicer
may make deposits to and direct the Indenture Trustee to make withdrawals from
the Reserve Account in accordance with this Agreement.
(ii) The
Indenture Trustee will transfer all funds on deposit in the Reserve Account to
the Depositor, or if the Depositor has notified the Indenture Trustee of the
establishment of the Trust Distribution Account, to the Trust Distribution
Account, on the earlier of: (i) the first Payment Date on or after
which the Servicer has deposited into the Collection Account the amount
specified in Section 8.1(a) in connection with its exercising its option to
acquire the Trust Property pursuant to Section 8.1 and (ii) the date on which
the Note Balance of the Notes and of all other amounts owing or to be
distributed to the Secured Parties under the Indenture and this Agreement are
paid in full.
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(d) [Reserved].
(e) Benefit of Accounts;
Deposits and Withdrawals. The Collection Account and the
Reserve Account and all amounts, securities, investments, financial assets and
other property deposited in or credited to them will be held by the Indenture
Trustee as secured party for the benefit of the Secured Parties and, after
payment in full of the Notes, as agent of the Issuer and as part of the Trust
Property. All deposits to and withdrawals from the Collection
Account, the Principal Payment Account and the Reserve Account will be made in
accordance with the Basic Documents.
(f) Maintenance of
Accounts. If an institution maintaining one of the Bank
Accounts ceases to be a Qualified Institution, the Servicer, with respect to the
Collection Account and the Principal Payment Account, or the Depositor, with
respect to the Reserve Account, will, with the Indenture Trustee's or Owner
Trustee's assistance as necessary, within 30 calendar days, move such Bank
Account to a Qualified Institution.
(g) Compliance. Each
Bank Account will be established and maintained pursuant to the Control
Agreement. The Servicer, with respect to the Collection Account and
the Principal Payment Account, and the Depositor, with respect to the Reserve
Account, will ensure that the Control Agreement establishing each Bank Account
requires the Qualified Institution maintaining each such account to comply with
entitlement orders (as defined in Article 8 of the UCC) originated by the
Indenture Trustee without further consent of the Issuer for so long as the Notes
are Outstanding and to act as a securities intermediary in accordance with the
UCC.
(h) Trust Distribution
Account. The Depositor may cause the Owner Trustee to
establish and maintain a segregated trust account in the name "U.S. Bank Trust
National Association as Owner Trustee," that is designated as the "Trust Distribution
Account" and will promptly notify the Owner Trustee and the Indenture
Trustee after the establishment of the Trust Distribution
Account. The Trust Distribution Account will be under the sole
dominion and control of the Owner Trustee, except that the Indenture Trustee may
make deposits to the Trust Distribution Account in accordance with the Basic
Documents. All deposits to and withdrawals from the Trust
Distribution Account will be made in accordance with the Indenture and the Trust
Agreement.
Section
4.2. Investment of Funds on
Deposit in the Bank Accounts.
(a) For
so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, funds
on deposit in the Collection Account (but not amounts in the Principal Payment
Account) and in the Reserve Account will, to the extent permitted by law, be
invested in Permitted Investments by the Qualified Institution maintaining such
accounts as directed by the Servicer with respect to the Collection Account, and
as directed by the Depositor or by any Person appointed by the Depositor with
respect to the Reserve Account, in each case without requiring any action by the
Indenture Trustee. The Servicer and the Depositor, as applicable, may
direct the Indenture Trustee to consent, vote, waive or take any other action,
or not to take any such action, with respect to any matters available to the
holder of such Permitted Investments.
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(b) If
(i) the Servicer, with respect to the Collection Account and the Principal
Payment Account, or the Depositor, with respect to the Reserve Account, fails to
give investment directions for any funds on deposit in a Bank Account to the
Qualified Institution maintaining such Bank Account by 11:00 a.m. New York time
(or such other time as may be agreed by the Issuer and such Qualified
Institution) on the Business Day preceding a Payment Date or (ii) a Default or
Event of Default has occurred and is continuing with respect to the Notes and
the Indenture Trustee has provided notice to the Qualified Institution
maintaining such Bank Account, the Qualified Institution maintaining such Bank
Account will, pursuant to the Control Agreement, to the fullest extent
practicable, invest and reinvest funds on deposit in such Bank Account in one or
more investments described in clause (b) of the definition of Permitted
Investments.
(c) Permitted
Investments of funds on deposit in the Collection Account (or any reinvestments
of such Permitted Investments) will mature no later than the Business Day
preceding the Payment Date on which such Collections are required to be
distributed under the Indenture. Permitted Investments of funds on
deposit in the Reserve Account will mature no later than the Business Day
preceding the first Payment Date on which Collections are required to be
distributed following the date of investment, except that such funds may be
invested in Permitted Investments that will not mature before the next Payment
Date if Rating Agency Confirmation has been obtained with respect to the
investment. Permitted Investments will be held to their maturity,
except that Permitted Investments may be sold or disposed of before their
maturity in connection with the sale or liquidation of the Collateral following
an Event of Default as provided in Section 5.6 of the Indenture. All
interest and other income (net of losses and investment expenses) on funds on
deposit in the Bank Accounts will be paid to the Servicer on each Payment Date
pursuant to Section 3.5.
(d) None
of the Depositor, the Servicer or the Qualified Institution maintaining any Bank
Account will be liable for the selection of Permitted Investments or for
investment losses incurred thereon (other than in the capacity as obligor
thereon, if applicable).
(e) Neither
the Servicer, with respect to the Collection Account and the Principal Payment
Account, nor the Depositor, with respect to the Reserve Account, will direct the
Qualified Institution maintaining such account to make any investment of any
funds or to sell any investment held in such account unless the security
interest Granted and perfected in such account in favor of the Indenture Trustee
will continue to be perfected in such investment or the proceeds of such sale,
in each case without any further action by any Person.
(f) With
respect to funds on deposit in the Bank Accounts:
(i) any
such funds or property in such accounts that is a "financial asset" as defined
in Section 8-102(a)(9) of the UCC will be physically delivered to, or credited
to an account in the name of, the Qualified Institution maintaining the
applicable account in accordance with such institution's customary procedures
such that the institution establishes a "securities entitlement" in favor of the
Indenture Trustee with respect to such funds or property; and
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(ii) any
funds or property that are held in deposit accounts will be held solely in the
name of the Indenture Trustee at one or more depository institutions having the
Required Ratings, each such deposit account will be subject to the exclusive
custody and control of the Indenture Trustee and the Indenture Trustee will have
sole signature authority with respect to each such deposit account.
(g) The
Servicer, with respect to the Collection Account and the Principal Payment
Account, and the Depositor, with respect to the Reserve Account, will ensure
that the Qualified Institution maintaining each such account, in its capacity as
securities intermediary, agrees in the Control Agreement that each item of
property credited to each such account will be treated as a "financial asset"
within the meaning of Section 8-102(a)(9) of the UCC.
Section
4.3. Remittances.
(a) If
Ford Credit's short term unsecured debt is rated at least "A-1" by Standard
& Poor's and "F1" by Fitch (this rating requirement, the "Monthly Remittance Required
Ratings"), Ford Credit may remit Collections on the Business Day
preceding each Payment Date and Final Scheduled Payment Date, or with Rating
Agency Confirmation, on each Payment Date or Final Scheduled Payment
Date.
(b) If
Ford Credit's short term unsecured debt is not rated at least equal to the
Monthly Remittance Required Ratings or an Event of Servicing Termination
occurs:
(i) on
the Closing Date, the Servicer will remit to the Collection Account all amounts
received and applied as interest or principal on the Receivables in accordance
with the Credit and Collection Policy during the period from the Cutoff Date to
two Business Days preceding the Closing Date; and
(ii) on
and after the Closing Date, Ford Credit will remit to the Collection Account all
amounts received and applied as interest or principal on the Receivables in
accordance with the Credit and Collection Policy within two Business Days after
such application.
(c) If
Ford Credit is the Servicer and for any Payment Date or Final Scheduled Payment
Date, the sum of (i) Collections for the related Collection Period, plus (ii) Purchase
Amounts for such Payment Date or Final Scheduled Payment Date, exceeds the
amounts remitted pursuant to Section 4.3(b) for the related Collection Period,
Ford Credit will remit an amount equal to such excess to the Collection Account
on the Business Day preceding such Payment Date, or with Rating Agency
Confirmation, on such Payment Date. If, for any Payment Date or for
such Final Scheduled Payment Date, the amounts remitted pursuant to Section
4.3(b) for the related Collection Period exceed the sum of (i) Collections for
the related Collection Period, plus (ii) Purchase
Amounts for such Payment Date or Final Scheduled Payment Date, the Indenture
Trustee will pay to Ford Credit an amount equal to such excess within two
Business Days of Ford Credit's request, but in no event later than such Payment
Date or Final Scheduled Payment Date. Upon the Indenture Trustee's
request, Ford Credit will provide the Indenture Trustee reasonable support for
Ford Credit's calculation of the amounts to be remitted or paid pursuant to this
Section 4.3(c).
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(d) Ford
Credit may make the remittances pursuant to this Section 4.3 net of Servicing
Fees to be paid to Ford Credit. Nonetheless, the Servicer will
account for all of the above described remittances and distributions in the
Monthly Investor Report as if the amounts were remitted, deposited and/or
transferred separately.
(e) If
Ford Credit (or a successor of Ford Credit pursuant to Section 6.4) is not the
Servicer, the Servicer will be required to remit Collections to the Collection
Account within two Business Days after receipt and application.
(f) Pending
deposit into the Collection Account, amounts collected by the Servicer may be
used by the Servicer at its own risk and for its own benefit and will not be
segregated from its own funds.
Section
4.4. Calculations and
Distributions; Withdrawals from the Reserve Account.
(a) On
or before each Determination Date, the Servicer will calculate the Reserve
Account Draw Amount for the following Payment Date and will instruct the
Indenture Trustee to withdraw from the Reserve Account and deposit the Reserve
Account Draw Amount into the Collection Account on or before such Payment
Date.
(b) On
or before each Determination Date, the Servicer will instruct the Indenture
Trustee (based on the most recent Monthly Investor Report) to make the
withdrawals, deposits, distributions and payments required to be made on the
following Payment Date pursuant to Section 8.2 of the Indenture.
ARTICLE
V
THE
DEPOSITOR
Section
5.1. Representations and
Warranties of the Depositor. The Depositor represents and
warrants to the Issuer as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing
Date, on which the Issuer is relying in acquiring the Trust Property and which
will survive the sale of the Trust Property to the Issuer and the pledge of the
Trust Property by the Issuer to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to the
Indenture:
(a) Organization and
Qualification. The Depositor is duly organized and validly
existing as a limited liability company in good standing under the laws of the
State of Delaware. The Depositor is qualified as a foreign limited
liability company in good standing and has obtained all necessary licenses and
approvals in all jurisdictions in which the ownership or lease of its properties
or the conduct of its activities requires such qualification, license or
approval, unless the failure to obtain such qualifications, licenses or
approvals could not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on
the Depositor's ability to perform its obligations under this Agreement or the
other Basic Documents to which it is a party.
(b) Power, Authorization and
Enforceability. The Depositor has the power and authority to
execute deliver and perform the terms of each of the Basic Documents to which it
is a party and to acquire, own and sell the Receivables and the other Trust
Property and has duly authorized the sale of the Receivables and other Trust
Property to the Issuer by all necessary
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action. The
Depositor has authorized the execution, delivery and performance of the terms of
each of the Basic Documents to which it is a party. Each of the Basic
Documents to which the Depositor is a party is the legal, valid and binding
obligation of the Depositor enforceable against the Depositor, except as may be
limited by insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization or other laws relating to the
enforcement of creditors' rights or by general equitable
principles.
(c) Valid
Sale. This Agreement evidences a valid sale of the Trust
Property from the Depositor to the Issuer, enforceable against creditors of and
purchasers from the Depositor.
(d) No Conflicts and No
Violation. The consummation of the transactions contemplated
by the Basic Documents to which the Depositor is a party and the fulfillment of
the terms of the Basic Documents to which the Depositor is a party will not (i)
conflict with or result in a breach of the terms or provisions of, or constitute
a default under any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement,
guarantee or similar agreement or instrument under which the Depositor is a
debtor or guarantor, (ii) result in the creation or imposition of any Lien upon
any of the properties or assets of the Depositor pursuant to the terms of any
such indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, guarantee or similar
agreement or instrument (other than this Agreement), (iii) violate the
Certificate of Formation or Limited Liability Company Agreement, or (iv) violate
any law or, to 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, in each case which conflict,
breach, default, Lien, or violation would reasonably be expected to have a
material adverse effect on the Depositor's ability to perform its obligations
under the Basic Documents.
(e) No
Proceedings. To the Depositor's knowledge, there are no
proceedings or investigations pending or overtly threatened in writing, before
any court, regulatory body, administrative agency, or other governmental
instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Depositor or its properties: (i)
asserting the invalidity of any of the Basic Documents or the Notes, (ii)
seeking to prevent the issuance of the Notes or the consummation of any of the
transactions contemplated by any of the Basic Documents, (iii) seeking any
determination or ruling that would reasonably be expected to have a material
adverse effect on the Depositor's ability to perform its obligations under, or
the validity or enforceability of, any of the Basic Documents or the Notes, or
(iv) relating to Ford Credit or the Depositor that would reasonably be expected
to (A) affect the treatment of the Notes as indebtedness for U.S. federal income
or Applicable Tax State income or franchise tax purposes, (B) be deemed to cause
a taxable exchange of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (C) cause
the Issuer to be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership
taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes, or (D) cause the
Issuer to incur Michigan Single Business Tax liability other than such
proceedings that would not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse
effect upon the Depositor or materially and adversely affect the performance by
the Depositor of its obligations under, or the validity and enforceability of,
the Basic Documents or the Notes.
(f) Valid Security
Interest. This Agreement creates a valid and continuing
security interest (as defined in the applicable UCC) in the Trust Property in
favor of the Issuer
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that is
prior to all other Liens other than Permitted Liens and is enforceable as such
against all other creditors of and purchasers from the Depositor.
Section
5.2. Liability of the
Depositor. The Depositor will be liable in accordance with
this Agreement only to the extent of the obligations specifically undertaken by
the Depositor under this Agreement.
(a) The
Depositor will not be liable to the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture
Trustee, the Noteholders, the Servicer or any other Person for any action taken,
or not taken, in good faith pursuant to this Agreement or for errors in
judgment. All such liability is expressly waived and released as a
condition of, and consideration for, the execution of this Agreement by the
Depositor and the issuance of the Notes. Notwithstanding the
preceding two sentences, this Section 5.2 will not protect the Depositor against
any liability that would otherwise be imposed by reason of Depositor's, willful
misconduct, bad faith or negligence in the performance of its duties under this
Agreement.
(b) The
Depositor will pay any and all taxes levied or assessed upon the Issuer or upon
all or any part of the Trust Property.
(c) The
Depositor and any officer, director, employee or agent of the Depositor may rely
in good faith on the advice of counsel or on any document believed to be genuine
and to have been executed by the proper party in respect of any matters arising
under this Agreement.
(d) The
Depositor will be under no obligation to appear in, prosecute or defend any
legal action that is unrelated to its obligations under this Agreement and that,
in its opinion, may cause it to incur any expense or liability.
Section
5.3. Merger or Consolidation of,
or Assumption of the Obligations of, the Depositor. Any Person
(a) into which the Depositor is merged or consolidated, (b) resulting from any
merger or consolidation to which the Depositor is a party or (c) succeeding to
the business of the Depositor, if more than 50% of the voting stock or voting
power and 50% or more of the economic equity of such Person is owned, directly
or indirectly, by Ford Motor Company, will be the successor to the Depositor
under this Agreement without the execution or filing of any document or any
further act except those actions required under this Section
5.3. Within 15 Business Days after any such merger, consolidation or
succession such Person will (i) execute an agreement of assumption to perform
every obligation of the Depositor under this Agreement, (ii) deliver to the
Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee an Officer's Certificate and an Opinion
of Counsel each stating that such merger, consolidation or succession and such
agreement of assumption comply with this Section 5.3, (iii) deliver to the Owner
Trustee and the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that
either (A) upon the later of the attachment of the security interest and the
filing of the necessary financing statements, the security interest in favor of
the Issuer in the Trust Property and the Indenture Trustee in the Collateral
will be perfected, or (B) no such action is necessary to preserve and protect
such security interest, and (iv) provide notice of such merger, consolidation or
succession to the Rating Agencies.
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Section
5.4. Depositor May Own
Notes. The Depositor and any Affiliate of the Depositor, in
its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Notes
with the same rights as it would have if it were not the Depositor or an
Affiliate of the Depositor except as otherwise provided in any Basic
Document. Notes owned by or pledged to the Depositor or any Affiliate
of the Depositor will have an equal and proportionate benefit under the Basic
Document, without preference, priority or distinction, except as otherwise
provided in any Basic Document.
Section
5.5. Depositor's Designation of
the Rating Agencies. The Depositor designates Fitch and
Standard & Poor's as the Rating Agencies rating the Notes.
ARTICLE
VI
THE
SERVICER
Section
6.1. Representations and
Warranties of the Servicer. The Servicer represents and
warrants to the Issuer as of the date of this Agreement, on which the Issuer is
relying in acquiring the Trust Property and which will survive the sale of the
Trust Property to the Issuer and the pledge of the Trust Property by the Issuer
to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to the Indenture:
(a) Organization and
Qualification. The Servicer is duly incorporated and validly
existing as a limited liability company in good standing under the laws of the
State of Delaware. The Servicer is qualified as a foreign limited
liability company in good standing and has obtained all necessary licenses and
approvals in all jurisdictions in which the ownership or lease of its properties
or the conduct of its activities requires such qualification, license or
approval, unless the failure to obtain such qualifications, licenses or
approvals would not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on
the Servicer's ability to perform its obligations under this Agreement or the
other Basic Documents to which it is a party.
(b) Power, Authorization and
Enforceability. The Servicer has the power and authority to
execute deliver and perform the terms of each of the Basic Documents to which it
is a party and to acquire, own, hold, service and sell the Receivables and to
hold the Receivables Files as custodian on behalf of the Issuer and the
Indenture Trustee. The Servicer has authorized the execution,
delivery and performance of the terms of each of the Basic Documents to which it
is a party. Each of the Basic Documents to which the Servicer is a
party is the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Servicer enforceable
against the Servicer, except as may be limited by insolvency, bankruptcy,
reorganization or other laws relating to the enforcement of creditors' rights or
by general equitable principles.
(c) No Conflicts and No
Violation. The consummation of the transactions contemplated
by the Basic Documents to which the Servicer is a party and the fulfillment of
the terms of the Basic Documents to which the Servicer is a party will not (i)
conflict with or result in a breach of the terms or provision of, or constitute
a default under any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement,
guarantee or similar agreement or instrument under which the Servicer is a
debtor or guarantor (other than this Agreement), (ii) result in the creation or
imposition of any Lien upon any of the properties or assets of the Servicer
pursuant to the terms of any such indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan
agreement, guarantee or similar agreement,
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(iii)
violate the Certificate of Formation or the Limited Liability Company Agreement
of the Servicer, or (iv) violate any law or, to the Servicer's knowledge, any
order, rule or regulation applicable to the Servicer of any court or of any
federal or state regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental
instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Servicer or its properties; in each
case, which conflict, breach, default, Lien, or violation would reasonably be
expected to have a material adverse effect on the Servicer's ability to perform
its obligations under the Basic Documents.
(d) No
Proceedings. To the Servicer's knowledge, there are no
proceedings or investigations pending or overtly threatened in writing before
any court, regulatory body, administrative agency, or other governmental
instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Servicer or its properties: (i)
asserting the invalidity of any of the Basic Documents or the Notes, (ii)
seeking to prevent the issuance of the Notes or the consummation of any of the
transactions contemplated by any of the Basic Documents, (iii) seeking any
determination or ruling that would reasonably be expected to have a material
adverse effect on the Servicer's ability to perform its obligations under, or
the validity or enforceability of, any of the Basic Documents or the Notes, or
(iv) relating to the Servicer that would reasonably be expected to (A) affect
the treatment of the Notes as indebtedness for U.S. federal income or Applicable
Tax State income or franchise tax purposes, (B) be deemed to cause a taxable
exchange of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (C) cause the Issuer
to be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a
corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes, or (D) cause the Issuer to
incur Michigan Single Business Tax liability other than such proceedings that,
to the Servicer's knowledge, would not reasonably be expected to have a material
adverse effect upon the Servicer and its subsidiaries considered as a whole or
materially and adversely affect the performance by the Servicer of its
obligations under, or the validity and enforceability of, any of the Basic
Documents or the Notes.
Section
6.2. Liability of the
Servicer.
(a) The
Servicer will be liable to the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee,
the Noteholders and to the Depositor only to the extent of the obligations
specifically undertaken by the Servicer under this Agreement. All
other liability is expressly waived and released as a condition of, and
consideration for, the execution of this Agreement by the
Servicer. This Section 6.2 will not protect the Servicer against any
liability that would otherwise be imposed by reason of the Servicer's willful
misconduct, bad faith or negligence in the performance of its duties under this
Agreement. The Servicer and any subservicer may rely in good faith on
any document of any kind that appears on its face to be properly executed and
submitted by any Person with respect to any matters arising under this
Agreement.
(b) The
obligations of the Servicer under this Agreement are solely corporate
obligations of the Servicer, and no recourse may be taken, directly or
indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Servicer against any owner,
beneficiary, agent, officer, director, or employee of the Servicer in their
individual capacities except for any liability that would otherwise be imposed
by reason of such Person's willful misconduct, bad faith or negligence in the
performance of its duties.
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(c) The
Servicer will not be under any obligation to appear in, prosecute or defend any
legal action that is not incidental to its duties to service the Receivables in
accordance with this Agreement and that in its opinion may involve it in any
expense or liability. The Servicer may in its sole discretion (but
will not be required to) undertake any legal action that it may deem necessary
or desirable to protect the interests of the Noteholders or the Depositor under
the Basic Documents. In such event, the legal expenses, costs and
liabilities of such action and any liability resulting from such action will be
expenses, costs and liabilities of the Servicer.
(d) The
Servicer will not be in default under this Agreement if it is unable to perform
any of its obligations as a result of an act of God, act of war, terrorism,
fires, earthquake or other natural disaster. The Servicer will make
commercially reasonable efforts to resume the performance of its obligations
under this Agreement as soon as reasonably practicable after any such
event.
Section
6.3. Indemnities of the
Servicer.
(a) The
Servicer will indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Issuer, the Owner Trustee
and the Indenture Trustee, and their respective officers, directors, employees
and agents from and against any and all costs, losses, claims and liabilities
arising out of, or imposed upon any such Person through the Servicer's
(including in its capacity as Custodian) willful misconduct, bad faith or
negligence (except for errors in judgment) in the performance of its duties
under any Basic Document to which it is a party.
(b) Promptly
upon receipt by the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or any of
their respective officers, directors, employees and agents (each, for purposes
of this Section 6.3(b), an "Indemnified Person")
of notice of the commencement of any Proceeding against any such Indemnified
Person, such Indemnified Person will, if a claim in respect of such Proceeding
will be made against the Servicer under this Section 6.3, notify the Servicer of
the commencement of such Proceeding. The Servicer may participate in
and assume the defense and settlement of any such Proceeding at the Servicer's
expense. No settlement of such Proceeding may be made without the
approval of the Servicer and such Indemnified Person, which approvals will not
be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned. The Servicer's
indemnification obligation will include the reasonable fees and expenses of
counsel and the expenses of litigation. After notice from the
Servicer to such Indemnified Person of the Servicer's intention to assume the
defense of such Proceeding with counsel reasonably satisfactory to such
Indemnified Person, and so long as the Servicer so assumes the defense of such
Proceeding in a manner reasonably satisfactory to such Indemnified Person, the
Servicer will not be liable for any legal expenses of counsel to such
Indemnified Person unless there is a conflict between the interests of the
Servicer and such Indemnified Person, in which case the Servicer will pay for
the separate counsel to such Indemnified Person.
(c) For
purposes of this Section 6.3, if the Servicer is terminated pursuant to Section
7.1 or if the Servicer resigns pursuant to Section 6.6, such Servicer will be
deemed to continue to be the Servicer until a Successor Servicer (other than the
Indenture Trustee) has assumed the obligations of the Servicer in accordance
with Section 7.2.
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(d) The
Servicer's obligations under this Section 6.3 with respect to the period such
Person was (or was deemed to be) the Servicer will survive the termination of or
resignation by such Person as Servicer, the termination of this Agreement and
the resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or the
termination of the Issuer. If the Servicer makes any indemnity
payments pursuant to this Section 6.3 and the Person to or on behalf of whom
such payments are made thereafter collects any of such amounts from others, such
Person will promptly repay such amounts to the Servicer, without
interest.
Section
6.4. Merger or Consolidation of,
or Assumption of the Obligations of, the Servicer; Assignment to
Affiliate. Any Person (a) into which the Servicer is merged or
consolidated, (b) resulting from any merger or consolidation to which the
Servicer is a party, (c) succeeding to the business of the Servicer, or (d) that
is an Affiliate of the Servicer to whom the Servicer has assigned this
Agreement, will be the successor to the Servicer under this Agreement without
the execution or filing of any document or any further act except those actions
required under this Section 6.4. Within 15 Business Days after any
such merger, consolidation, succession or assignment, such Person will (i)
execute an agreement of assumption to perform every obligation of the Servicer
under this Agreement, (ii) deliver to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture
Trustee an Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that
such merger, consolidation, succession or assignment and such agreement of
assumption comply with this Section 6.4, (iii) deliver to the Owner Trustee and
the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that either (A) upon
the later of the attachment of the security interest and the filing of the
necessary financing statements, the security interest in favor of the Issuer in
the Trust Property and the Indenture Trustee in the Collateral will be
perfected, or (B) no such action is necessary to preserve and protect such
security interest, and (iv) provide notice of such merger, consolidation,
succession or assignment to the Rating Agencies.
Section
6.5. Delegation of
Duties. So long as Ford Credit acts as Servicer or Custodian,
the Servicer or Custodian may without notice or consent delegate any or all of
its duties under this Agreement to Ford Motor Company or any company or other
business entity of which Ford Motor Company owns, directly or indirectly, more
than 50% of the voting stock or voting power and 50% or more of the economic
equity. The Servicer or Custodian may perform any of its duties
through subcontractors. No such delegation or subcontracting will
relieve the Servicer or Custodian of its responsibilities with respect to such
duties and the Servicer will remain primarily responsible with respect to such
duties. The Servicer or Custodian will be responsible for the fees of
any such subcontractors.
Section
6.6. Ford Credit Not to Resign as
Servicer. Neither Ford Credit nor any successor Servicer will
resign as Servicer under this Agreement except upon determining that the
performance of its duties under this Agreement is no longer permissible under
law. Notice of any determination permitting the resignation of Ford
Credit as Servicer or a successor Servicer will be delivered to the Owner
Trustee and the Indenture Trustee as soon as practicable (and, if not given in
writing, will be confirmed in writing as soon as practicable). Any
determination permitting the resignation of Ford Credit as Servicer or a
successor Servicer will be evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel to such effect
delivered to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee with or promptly
following delivery of such notice.
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Section
6.7. Servicer May Own
Notes. The Servicer and any Affiliate of the Servicer, in its
individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Notes with
the same rights as it would have if it were not the Servicer or an Affiliate of
the Servicer, except as otherwise provided in any Basic
Document. Notes owned by or pledged to the Servicer or any Affiliate
of the Servicer will have an equal and proportionate benefit under the Basic
Document, without preference, priority or distinction, except as otherwise
provided in any Basic Document.
ARTICLE
VII
SERVICING
TERMINATION
Section
7.1. Events of Servicing
Termination.
(a) The
occurrence and continuation of any of the following events will be an "Event of Servicing
Termination":
(i) Any
failure by the Servicer to deliver to the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee
any proceeds or payment required to be delivered under this Agreement that
continues for a period of five Business Days after the earlier of the date on
which (x) notice of such failure is given to the Servicer by the Owner Trustee
or the Indenture Trustee, or (y) a Responsible Person of the Servicer learns of
such failure, unless:
(1) (A)
such failure is caused by an event outside the control of the Servicer that the
Servicer could not have avoided through the exercise of due care, (B) such
failure does not continue for more than ten Business Days after the earlier of
the date on which notice of such failure is given to the Servicer by the Owner
Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or a Responsible Person of the Servicer learns
of such failure, (C) during such period the Servicer uses all commercially
reasonable efforts to perform its obligations under this Agreement, and (D) the
Servicer provides the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and
the Noteholders with prompt notice of such failure that includes a description
of the Servicer's efforts to remedy such failure, or
(2) (A)
such failure would not reasonably be expected to, or upon investigation and
quantification does not, result in the failure in paying or depositing an amount
greater than 0.05% of the sum of the Note Balances of all Notes, and (B) such
failure does not continue for more than (i) if the Servicer's long-term debt is
rated investment grade by all Rating Agencies rating the Notes, 90 days after a
Responsible Person of the Servicer learns of such failure, or (ii) if the
Servicer's long-term debt is not so rated, 90 days after such
failure,
(ii) Any
failure by the Servicer to observe or to perform in any material respect any
other covenants or agreements of the Servicer set forth in this Agreement, which
failure materially and adversely affects the rights of the Noteholders and
continues for 90 days after the Servicer receives notice of such failure from
the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders of at least 25% of
the Note Balance of the Controlling Class, or
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(iii) The
occurrence of an Insolvency Event with respect to the Servicer.
(b) If
an Event of Servicing Termination occurs, the Indenture Trustee will promptly
notify each Rating Agency. So long as such Event of Servicing
Termination has not been remedied, either the Indenture Trustee or the
Noteholders of at least a majority of the Note Balance of the Controlling Class
(or, if no Notes are Outstanding, the Owner Trustee, at the direction of the
holder of the Residual Interest), by notice to the Servicer and the Rating
Agencies (and to the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee if given by the
Noteholders), may terminate all of the rights and obligations (other than those
set forth in Section 6.2 and Section 6.3) of the Servicer under this
Agreement. Upon the receipt by the Servicer of such notice (or such
later date as may be specified in such notice of termination), all authority and
power of the Servicer under this Agreement will pass to and be vested in the
Indenture Trustee or such Successor Servicer as may be appointed under Section
7.2. In such event, the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee are
authorized to execute and deliver, on behalf of the predecessor Servicer, as
attorney-in-fact or otherwise, any and all documents and other instruments, and
to do or accomplish all other acts or things necessary or appropriate to effect
the termination of the predecessor Servicer and to complete the transfer of the
Receivables Files and related documents to the Indenture Trustee or the
successor Servicer or the successor Custodian.
(c) Upon
termination of the Servicer under this Section 7.1 or the Servicer's resignation
under Section 6.6, the predecessor Servicer will cooperate with the Indenture
Trustee, the Owner Trustee and the Successor Servicer in effecting the
termination of the responsibilities and rights of the predecessor Servicer under
this Agreement, including, as soon as practicable, the transfer to the Indenture
Trustee or such Successor Servicer of all cash amounts that are held by the
predecessor Servicer for deposit, or thereafter received with respect to a
Receivable and the delivery of the Receivables Files and the related accounts
and records maintained by the Servicer. In no event, however, will
the Servicer be obligated to provide, license or assign its processes,
procedures, models, servicing software or other applications to any Successor
Servicer or any other third party, or provide anything covered by a restriction
on transfer or assignment or a confidentiality agreement. All
reasonable costs and expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred by the
Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee and the Successor Servicer associated with
(i) the transition of servicing duties to the Successor Servicer, and (ii)
amending this Agreement to reflect a succession of the Servicer pursuant to this
Section 7.1 will be paid by the predecessor Servicer upon presentation of
reasonable documentation of such costs and expenses.
Section
7.2. Appointment of Successor
Servicer.
(a) If
the Servicer is terminated pursuant to Section 7.1, it will continue to perform
its functions as Servicer under this Agreement until the date specified in the
notice of termination. If the Servicer resigns pursuant to Section
6.6, it will continue to perform its functions as Servicer under this Agreement
until (i) if the resigning Servicer is Ford Credit, the earlier to occur of (A)
the Indenture Trustee or a Successor Servicer assuming the responsibilities and
obligations of Ford Credit as Servicer in accordance with this Section 7.2 and
as the Administrator in accordance with Section 5.2 of the Administration
Agreement, or (B) the date upon which any regulatory authority requires such
resignation, and (ii) if the resigning Servicer
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is not
Ford Credit, the earlier to occur of (A) the date 45 days from the delivery to
the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee of the notice of such resignation in
accordance with Section 6.6, or (B) the date upon which the Servicer is legally
unable to act as Servicer as specified in the notice of resignation and
accompanying Opinion of Counsel.
(b) If
the Servicer resigns or is terminated under this Agreement, the Indenture
Trustee will (i) provide notice of such termination or resignation to the
Issuer, and (ii) as promptly as possible, appoint an institution having a net
worth of not less than $50,000,000 whose business includes the servicing of
motor vehicle receivables, as the successor to the Servicer under this
Agreement. Such successor will accept its appointment (including its
appointment as Administrator under the Administration Agreement as set forth in
Section 7.2(d)) by (x) entering into a servicing agreement with the Issuer
having substantially the same provisions as the provisions of this Agreement
applicable to the Servicer, in a form acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the
Indenture Trustee, and (y) delivering a copy of such servicing agreement to the
Indenture Trustee and the Issuer (such a successor, a "Successor
Servicer"). Promptly following a Successor Servicer's
acceptance of its appointment, the Indenture Trustee will notify the Issuer of
such appointment, specifying in such notice the name and address of the
Successor Servicer.
(c) If
no Person has accepted its appointment as Successor Servicer when the
predecessor Servicer ceases to act as Servicer in accordance with this Section
7.2, the Indenture Trustee, without further action, will be automatically
appointed the Successor Servicer. However, if the Indenture Trustee
is unwilling or legally unable to act as Successor Servicer, it will appoint, or
petition a court of competent jurisdiction to appoint, an institution having a
net worth of not less than $50,000,000 whose business includes the servicing of
motor vehicle receivables, as successor. The Indenture Trustee will
be released from its duties and obligations as Successor Servicer on the date
that a new servicer enters into a servicing agreement with the Issuer and
delivers a copy of such servicing agreement to the Indenture Trustee and the
Issuer as provided in Section 7.2(b).
(d) Upon
acceptance of its appointment as Successor Servicer, the Successor Servicer will
(i) be the successor in all respects to the predecessor Servicer and will be
subject to all of the responsibilities, duties, and liabilities following such
Successor Servicer's appointment placed on the predecessor Servicer relating to
such predecessor Servicer's performance of its duties as Servicer, and (ii)
become the Administrator under the Administration Agreement in accordance with
Section 5.2 of the Administration Agreement.
(e) In
connection with any appointment of a Successor Servicer, the Indenture Trustee
may make such arrangements for the compensation of such Successor Servicer out
of payments on Receivables as it and such Successor Servicer may agree; provided that no such
compensation will be in excess of the amount paid to the predecessor Servicer
under this Agreement. The Indenture Trustee and such Successor
Servicer will take such action, consistent with this Agreement, as will be
necessary to effectuate any such succession.
(f) If
the Indenture Trustee succeeds to the Servicer's duties as provided in Section
7.2(c), it will do so in its individual capacity and not in its capacity as
Indenture Trustee and, accordingly, Article VI of the Indenture will be
inapplicable to the Indenture Trustee in its
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duties as
Successor Servicer. In case the Indenture Trustee becomes Successor
Servicer pursuant to Section 7.2(c), the Indenture Trustee will be entitled to
appoint as Servicer any one of its Affiliates; provided that the
Indenture Trustee, in its capacity as Successor Servicer, will be liable for the
actions and omissions of such Affiliate in its capacity as
Servicer.
Section
7.3. Notification to Secured
Parties and the Holder of the Residual Interest. Upon any
termination of the Servicer, or appointment of a Successor Servicer pursuant to
this Article VII, the Indenture Trustee will promptly notify the Secured Parties
and each Rating Agency, and the Owner Trustee will promptly notify the holder of
the Residual Interest.
Section
7.4. Waiver of Events of
Servicing Termination. The Noteholders of at least a majority
of the Note Balance of the Controlling Class or, if no Notes are Outstanding,
the Owner Trustee, at the direction of the holder of the Residual Interest, may
waive any Event of Servicing Termination and its consequences, except an event
resulting from the failure to make any required deposits to or payments from any
of the Bank Accounts in accordance with this Agreement that resulted in an Event
of Default in the payment of principal or interest on any of the Notes (other
than an Event of Default relating to failure to pay principal due only by reason
of acceleration) under the Indenture. Upon any such waiver of an
Event of Servicing Termination, such Event of Servicing Termination will cease
to exist and will be deemed to have been remedied for every purpose under this
Agreement. No such waiver will extend to any subsequent or other
event or impair any right resulting from such waiver. The Issuer will
notify the Rating Agencies of any such waiver.
ARTICLE
VIII
TERMINATION
Section
8.1. Clean-Up
Call.
(a) If
the Pool Balance is equal to or less than 10% of the Initial Pool Balance on the
last day of any Collection Period, the Servicer has the option to purchase the
Trust Property (other than the amounts on deposit in or invested in Permitted
Investments maturing on or before the following Payment Date in the Trust
Accounts). The Servicer may exercise its option to purchase the Trust
Property by (i) notifying the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee and the
Rating Agencies at least ten days before the Payment Date related to such
Collection Period, and (ii) remitting to the Collection Account the purchase
price for the Trust Property equal to the aggregate Principal Balance of the
Receivables as of the last day of such Collection Period in immediately
available funds on the Business Day preceding the Payment Date (or, with Rating
Agency Confirmation, on the Payment Date) related to such Collection
Period. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Servicer will not be
permitted to purchase the Trust Property unless the sum of (i) such purchase
price, (ii) the Collections on deposit in the Collection Account for such
Collection Period, and (iii) any Purchase Amounts paid by the Depositor or the
Servicer relating to such Collection Period is greater than or equal to the sum
of (i) the Note Balance of the Notes Outstanding, and all accrued but unpaid
interest thereon, and (ii) all amounts due to the Indenture Trustee under the
Indenture.
(b) When
the purchase price for the Trust Property is included in Available Funds for a
Payment Date, the Issuer will be deemed to have sold and assigned as of the last
day
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of the
preceding Collection Period all of the Issuer's right, title and interest in and
to the Trust Property, including the Receivables and all security and documents
relating to such Receivables. Such sale will not require any action
by the Issuer and will be without recourse, representation or warranty by the
Issuer except the representation that the Issuer owns the Receivable free and
clear of any Liens other than Permitted Liens. Upon such sale, the
Servicer will xxxx its computer records indicating that any receivables
purchased pursuant to Section 8.1(a) are no longer Receivables, file UCC
termination or amendment statements or take any other action necessary or
appropriate to evidence the transfer of ownership of the purchased Receivables
free from any Lien of the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee. The
Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee, as applicable, will execute
such documents and instruments and any and all further instruments, including
any authorizations to file UCC financing statement amendments, required or
reasonably requested by the Servicer to effect such transfer.
ARTICLE
IX
MISCELLANEOUS
PROVISIONS
Section
9.1. Amendment.
(a) Subject
to Section 9.1(f), this Agreement may be amended by the Depositor, the Servicer
and the Issuer, with ten Business Days prior notice to the Rating Agencies (and
the consent of the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee to the extent that
their respective rights or obligations will be materially and adversely
affected, which consent may not be unreasonably withheld, delayed or
conditioned), but without the consent of any of the Noteholders subject to the
following conditions:
(i) the
Depositor, the Servicer or the Issuer delivers an Officer's Certificate to the
Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee to the effect that such amendment will
not materially and adversely affect the interest of any Noteholder,
and
(ii) the
Depositor, the Servicer or the Issuer delivers an Opinion of Counsel to the
Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee to the effect that such amendment will
not (A) cause any Note to be deemed sold or exchanged for purposes of Section
1001 of the Code, (B) cause the Issuer to be treated as an association or
publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax
purposes, or (C) adversely affect the treatment of the Notes as debt for U.S.
federal income tax purposes.
(b) Subject
to Section 9.1(f), this Agreement also may be amended by the Depositor, the
Servicer and the Issuer, with ten Business Days prior notice to the Rating
Agencies and with the consent of (i) the Indenture Trustee, to the extent that
its rights or obligations will be materially and adversely affected by such
amendment (which consent may not be unreasonably withheld, delayed or
conditioned), (ii) the Owner Trustee, to the extent that its rights and
obligations will be materially and adversely affected by such amendment (which
consent may not be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned), and (iii) the
Noteholders of at least a majority of the Note Balance of each Class of the
Notes Outstanding (with the Noteholders of the Class A Notes voting together as
a single class).
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(c) Notwithstanding
anything else stated in Section 9.1(a) or (b), no such amendment: (i) may (A)
increase or reduce in any manner the amount of, or accelerate or delay the
timing of, or change the allocation or priority of, Collections or distributions
that are required to be made for the benefit of the Secured Parties, or (B)
reduce the percentage of the Note Balance of the Notes Outstanding required to
consent to any such amendment, without the consent of all affected Noteholders,
or (ii) may change the Specified Reserve Balance without receipt of the consent
of all affected Noteholders.
(d) Promptly
upon the execution of any amendment in accordance with this Section 9.1, the
Owner Trustee will send a copy of such amendment to the Indenture Trustee and
each Rating Agency, and the Indenture Trustee will notify each Noteholder of the
substance of such amendment.
(e) If
the consent of the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders is
required, they do not need to approve the particular form of any proposed
amendment so long as their consent approves the substance of the proposed
amendment.
(f) Before
executing any amendment to this Agreement, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture
Trustee will be entitled to request, receive and rely upon an Opinion of Counsel
delivered by the Depositor stating that the execution of such amendment is
authorized or permitted by this Agreement.
Section
9.2. Protection of Right, Title
and Interest to the Trust Property.
(a) The
Depositor will file financing statements and continuation statements, in the
manner and place required by law to preserve, maintain and protect the interest
of the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Secured Parties
in the Trust Property. The Depositor will deliver to the Issuer and
the Indenture Trustee file-stamped copies of, or filing receipts for, any
financing statement and continuation statement promptly upon such document
becoming available following filing. The Depositor authorizes the
Issuer and the Indenture Trustee to file any financing or continuation
statements, and amendments to such statements, in all jurisdictions and with all
filing offices as the Issuer or the Indenture may determine are necessary or
advisable to preserve, maintain and protect the interest of the Issuer and the
Indenture Trustee in the Trust Property. Such financing and
continuation statements may describe the Trust Property in any manner as the
Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may reasonably determine to ensure the
perfection of the interest of the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee in the Trust
Property. The Issuer or the Indenture Trustee, as applicable, will
deliver to the Depositor file-stamped copies of, or filing receipts for, any
such financing statement and continuation statement promptly upon such document
becoming available following filing.
(b) The
(i) Depositor, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, if required or reasonably
requested by the other or by the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee, and
(ii) Owner Trustee, if required or reasonably requested by the Indenture
Trustee, agree to do and perform any and all acts and to execute any and all
further instruments to more fully effect the purposes of this
Agreement.
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(c) Each
of the Depositor and the Servicer will give the Owner Trustee and the Indenture
Trustee at least 60 days' prior notice of any change in its corporate structure,
form of organization or jurisdiction of organization if, as a result of such
relocation or change, Section 9-307 of the UCC could require the filing of a new
financing statement or an amendment to a previously filed financing or
continuation statement and will promptly file any such new financing statement
or amendment. Each of the Depositor and the Servicer will maintain
its chief executive office, and the Servicer will maintain each office from
which it will service the Receivables, within the United States and will
maintain its jurisdiction of organization in only one State.
(d) Neither
the Depositor nor the Servicer will change its name in any manner that could
make any financing statement or continuation statement filed by the Depositor,
the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee in accordance with Section 9.2(a) seriously
misleading within the meaning of Section 9-506 of the UCC, unless it has given
the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee at least five days' prior notice
thereof and promptly files appropriate amendments to all previously filed
financing statements.
(e) On
and after the Closing Date until a Receivable has been paid in full or
repurchased, the Servicer will maintain its computer systems to indicate clearly
that such Receivable is owned by the Issuer and has been pledged to the
Indenture Trustee pursuant to the Indenture.
(f) At
any time the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee has reasonable grounds to
believe that a list of all Receivables (by contract number) then included in the
Trust Property is necessary in connection with the performance of its duties
under any Basic Agreement, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee may
request such a list from the Depositor and the Depositor will furnish such list
to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee within 30 Business Days of the
request.
(g) The
Depositor will, to the extent required by applicable law, cause the Notes to be
registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Section 12(b)
or Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act, within the time periods specified in such
sections.
Section
9.3. Notices.
(a) All
notices, requests, demands, consents, waivers or other communications to or from
the parties to this Agreement must be in writing and will be deemed to have been
given and made:
(i) upon
delivery or, in the case of a letter mailed by registered first class mail,
postage prepaid, three days after deposit in the mail,
(ii) in
the case of a fax, when receipt is confirmed by telephone, reply email or reply
fax from the recipient,
(iii) in
the case of an email, when receipt is confirmed by telephone or reply email from
the recipient, and
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(iv) in
the case of an electronic posting to a password-protected website to which the
recipient has been provided access, upon delivery of an email to such recipient
stating that such electronic posting has occurred.
Any such
notice, request, demand, consent or other communication must be delivered or
addressed as set forth on Schedule B to this Agreement or at such other address
as any party may designate by notice to the other parties.
(b) Any
notice required or permitted to be mailed to a Noteholder must be sent by
overnight delivery, mailed by registered first class mail, postage prepaid, or
sent by fax, to the address of such Person as shown in the Note
Register. Any notice so mailed within the time prescribed in this
Agreement will be conclusively presumed to have been properly given, whether or
not the Noteholder receives such notice.
Section
9.4. Assignment by the Depositor
or the Servicer. Except as provided in Sections 6.4, 6.6 and
7.2, this Agreement may not be assigned by the Depositor or the Servicer without
the prior consent of the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the holder of the
Residual Interest and the Noteholders of at least 66-2/3% of the Note Balance of
the Notes Outstanding.
Section
9.5. Third-Party
Beneficiaries. This Agreement will inure to the benefit of and
be binding upon the parties to this Agreement. The Owner Trustee and the
Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Secured Parties will be third-party
beneficiaries of this Agreement entitled to enforce this Agreement against the
Depositor and the Servicer. Except as otherwise provided in this
Agreement, no other Person will have any right or obligation under this
Agreement.
Section
9.6. GOVERNING
LAW. THIS
AGREEMENT WILL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE
STATE OF NEW YORK.
Section
9.7. Submission to
Jurisdiction. The parties submit to the nonexclusive
jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the Southern District of
New York and of any New York State Court sitting in New York, New York for
purposes of all legal proceedings arising out of or relating to this Agreement.
The parties irrevocably waive, to the fullest extent they may do so, any
objection that they may now or hereafter have to the laying of the venue of any
such proceeding brought in such a court and any claim that any such proceeding
brought in such a court has been brought in an inconvenient forum.
Section
9.8. WAIVER OF
JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY TO THIS
AGREEMENT IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW,
ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR
RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED BY THIS
AGREEMENT.
Section
9.9. Severability. If
any of the covenants, agreements or terms of this Agreement is held invalid,
illegal or unenforceable, then it will be deemed severable from the remaining
covenants, agreements or terms of this Agreement and will in no way affect the
validity, legality or enforceability of the remaining Agreement.
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Section
9.10. Counterparts. This
Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts. Each
counterpart will be an original, and all counterparts will together constitute
one and the same instrument.
Section
9.11. Headings. The
headings in this Agreement are included for convenience only and will not affect
the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.
Section
9.12. No Waiver; Cumulative
Remedies. No failure or delay of the Owner Trustee, the
Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders in exercising any power, right or remedy
under this Agreement will operate as a waiver. No single or partial
exercise of any power, right or remedy precludes any other or further exercise
of such power, right or remedy or the exercise of any other power, right or
remedy. The powers, rights and remedies provided in this Agreement
are in addition to any powers, rights and remedies provided by law.
Section
9.13. Agent for
Service.
(a) The
agent for service of the Depositor in respect of this Agreement will be the
person holding the office of Corporate Secretary of the Depositor, at the
following address:
Ford
Credit Auto Receivables Two LLC
c/o Ford
Motor Credit Company LLC
World
Headquarters, Xxxxx 000-X0
Xxx
Xxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxx 00000.
Attention:
Securitization Operations Supervisor
Telephone:
(000) 000-0000
Fax:
(000) 000-0000
(b) The
agent for service of the Servicer in respect of this Agreement will be the
person holding the office of Corporate Secretary of the Servicer, at the
following address:
Ford
Motor Credit Company LLC
Xxx
Xxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxx
0000, Xxxxxx 000-000
Xxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxx 00000.
Attention: Corporate
Secretary
Telephone:
(000) 000-0000
Fax: (000)
000-0000
Section
9.14. No
Petition. The Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Issuer
and the Servicer each covenants and agrees that, before the date that is one
year and one day (or, if longer, any applicable preference period) after the
payment in full of all securities issued by the Depositor or by a trust for
which the Depositor was the depositor, it will not institute against, or join
any other Person in instituting against, the Depositor any bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings or other
proceedings under any federal or State bankruptcy or similar law in connection
with any obligations relating to the Notes or any of the Basic
Documents. This Section 9.14 will survive the resignation or removal
of the Owner
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Trustee
under the Trust Agreement or the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture and the
termination of this Agreement.
Section
9.15. Limitation of Liability of
Owner Trustee and Indenture Trustee.
(a) Notwithstanding
anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary, this Agreement has been
countersigned by U.S. Bank Trust National Association, not in its individual
capacity but solely as Owner Trustee of the Issuer and in no event will U.S.
Bank Trust National Association in its individual capacity or, except as
provided in the Trust Agreement, as Owner Trustee of the Issuer have any
liability for the representations, warranties, covenants, agreements or other
obligations of the Issuer under this Agreement or in any of the certificates,
notices or agreements delivered pursuant to this Agreement. For all
purposes of this Agreement, in the performance of its duties or obligations
under this Agreement or in the performance of any duties or obligations of the
Issuer under this Agreement, the Owner Trustee will be subject to, and entitled
to the benefits of, Articles V, VI and VII of the Trust Agreement.
(b) Notwithstanding
anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary, this Agreement has been
accepted by The Bank of New York Mellon, not in its individual capacity but
solely as Indenture Trustee, and in no event will The Bank of New York Mellon
have any liability for the representations, warranties, covenants, agreements or
other obligations of the Issuer under this Agreement or in any of the
certificates, notices or agreements delivered pursuant to this
Agreement.
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EXECUTED
BY:
FORD
CREDIT AUTO RECEIVABLES TWO LLC, as Depositor
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/s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx | |
Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx | |||
Title: Secretary | |||
FORD
CREDIT AUTO OWNER TRUST 2009-B, as
Issuer
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By:
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U.S.
BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity
but solely as Owner Trustee of Ford Credit Auto Owner
Trust 2009-B
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By: | /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx | ||
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx | |||
Title: Assistant Vice President |
FORD
MOTOR CREDIT COMPANY LLC, as Servicer
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx | |||
Title: Assistant Treasurer | |||
[Signature Page to Sale and Servicing Agreement]
AGREED
AND ACCEPTED BY:
THE
BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON,
not in its individual capacity
but solely as Indenture Trustee
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/s/
Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx
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Title: Assistant
Treasurer
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U.S.
BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
not in its individual capacity
but solely as Owner Trustee
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By: |
/s/
Xxxxxxx
X. Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxx
X. Xxxxxx
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Title: Assistant
Treasurer
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FORD
MOTOR CREDIT COMPANY LLC,
as
Custodian |
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By: |
/s/
Xxxxxx
X. Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx
X. Xxxxxx
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Title: Assistant
Treasurer
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Schedule
A
Schedule of
Receivables
Delivered
on CD-ROM to Indenture Trustee at Closing
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Schedule
B
Notice
Addresses
1.
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If
to Ford Credit, in its individual capacity or as Servicer, Custodian,
Administrator or Sponsor under the Purchase
Agreement:
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Ford
Motor Credit Company LLC
c/o Ford
Motor Company
World
Headquarters, Xxxxx 000-X0
Xxx
Xxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: Securitization
Operations Supervisor
Telephone: (000)
000-0000
Fax: (000)
000-0000
With a copy to:
Ford
Motor Credit Company LLC
Xxx
Xxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxx
0000, Xxxxxx 000-000
Xxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: Corporate
Secretary
Telephone: (000)
000-0000
Fax: (000)
000-0000
2.
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If
to the Depositor:
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Ford
Motor Credit Company LLC
c/o Ford
Motor Company
World
Headquarters, Xxxxx 000-X0
Xxx
Xxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: Ford
Credit SPE Management Office
Telephone: (000)
000-0000
Fax: (000)
000-0000
With a copy to:
Ford
Motor Credit Company LLC
Xxx
Xxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxx
0000, Xxxxxx 000-000
Xxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: Corporate
Secretary
Telephone: (000)
000-0000
Fax: (000)
000-0000
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3. If
to the Issuer:
c/o the
Owner Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Owner Trustee
With
copies to:
c/o Ford
Motor Company
World
Headquarters, Xxxxx 000-X0
Xxx
Xxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: Ford
Credit SPE Management Office
Telephone: (000)
000-0000
Fax: (000)
000-0000
and
Ford
Motor Credit Company LLC
Xxx
Xxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxx
0000, Xxxxxx 000-000
Xxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: Corporate
Secretary
Telephone: (000)
000-0000
Fax: (000)
000-0000
4.
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If
to the Owner Trustee, at the Corporate Trust Office of the Owner
Trustee
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5.
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If
to the Indenture Trustee, at the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture
Trustee;
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6.
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If
to Standard & Poor's:
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Standard
& Poor's
00 Xxxxx
Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx,
Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Asset
Backed Surveillance Department
Telephone: (000)
000-0000
Fax: (000)
000-0000
7.
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If
to Fitch, Inc.:
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Fitch,
Inc.
0 Xxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx,
Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Asset
Backed Surveillance
Telephone: (000)
000-0000
Fax: (000)
000-0000
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Appendix
A
USAGE AND
DEFINITIONS
Usage
The
following rules of construction and usage apply to this Appendix, any agreement
that incorporates this Appendix and any document made or delivered pursuant to
any such agreement:
(a) The
term "documents" includes any and all documents, agreements, instruments,
certificates, notices, reports, statements or other writings however evidenced,
whether in electronic or physical form.
(b) Accounting
terms not defined or not completely defined in this Appendix will be construed
in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles as in effect on
the date of the document that incorporates this Appendix.
(c) References
to "Article," "Section," "Exhibit," "Schedule" or another subdivision of or to
an attachment are, unless otherwise specified, to an article, section, exhibit,
schedule or subdivision of or an attachment to the document in which such
reference appears.
(d) Any
document defined or referred to in this Appendix or in any document that
incorporates this Appendix means such document as from time to time amended,
modified, supplemented or replaced, including by waiver or consent, and includes
all attachments to and instruments incorporated in such document.
(e) Any
statute defined or referred to in this Appendix or in any document that
incorporates this Appendix means such statute as from time to time amended,
modified, supplemented or replaced, including by succession of comparable
successor statutes, and includes any rules and regulations promulgated under
such statute and any judicial and administrative interpretations of such
statute.
(f) Calculation
of any amount on or as of any date will be determined at or as of the close of
business on such day after the application of any monies, payments and other
transactions to be applied on such day, except that calculations as of the
Cutoff Date will be determined as of the open of business on such day prior to
the application of any monies, payments and other transactions to be applied on
such day.
(g) In
the computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later specified
date, the word "from" means "from and including," the word "to" means "to but
excluding" and the word "through" means "to and including."
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(h) All
terms defined in this Appendix apply to the singular and plural forms of such
terms and the term "including" means "including without
limitation."
(i) References
to a Person are also to its permitted successors and assigns.
Definitions
"Accrued Note
Interest" means, for a Class and a Payment Date or Final Scheduled
Payment Date, the sum of the Note Monthly Interest and the Note Interest
Shortfall.
"Act of Noteholders"
has the meaning specified in Section 11.3(a) of the Indenture.
"Adjusted Pool
Balance" means, on the Closing Date, an amount equal to:
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(a)
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the
Initial Pool Balance, minus
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(b)
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the
Yield Supplement Overcollateralization
Amount,
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and
means, on a Payment Date, an amount (not less than zero) equal to:
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(a)
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the
Pool Balance as of the last day of the preceding Collection Period, minus
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(b)
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the
Yield Supplement Overcollateralization
Amount.
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"Administration
Agreement" means the Administration Agreement, dated as of the Cutoff
Date, among the Administrator, the Issuer and the Indenture
Trustee.
"Administrator" means
Ford Credit, in its capacity as administrator under the Administration
Agreement.
"Affiliate" means, for
a specified Person, any other Person controlling, controlled by or under common
control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this
definition, "control" when used with respect to any Person means the power to
direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or
otherwise.
"Amount Financed"
means, for a Receivable, the amount financed by the Obligor for the purchase of
the Financed Vehicle, the purchase of extended warranty protection plans,
physical damage, credit life and disability insurance policies and similar
products, prior balances on trade-in vehicles and other related fees and
charges.
"Annual Percentage
Rate" or "APR" of a Receivable
means the annual rate of finance charges stated in the Receivable or in any
federal Truth In Lending Act correction notice related to the
Receivable.
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"Applicable Tax State"
means the State in which the Owner Trustee maintains its Corporate Trust Office,
the State in which the Owner Trustee maintains its principal executive offices
and the State of Michigan.
"Authenticating Agent"
has the meaning specified in Section 2.12(a) of the Indenture.
"Available Funds"
means, for a Payment Date or Final Scheduled Payment Date, as applicable, the
sum of the following amounts for such Payment Date or Final Scheduled Payment
Date:
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(a)
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Collections
for the related Collection Period on deposit in the Collection Account,
plus
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(b)
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Purchase
Amounts received on Receivables that became Purchased Receivables during
the related Collection Period, plus
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(c)
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any
amounts deposited by the Servicer to purchase the Trust Property on such
Payment Date or Final Scheduled Payment Date pursuant to Section 8.1 of
the Sale and Servicing Agreement, plus
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(d)
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the
Reserve Account Draw Amount.
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"Bank Accounts" means
the Reserve Account, the Collection Account and the Principal Payment
Account.
"Bankruptcy Code"
means the United States Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. 101 et seq.
"Basic Documents"
means the Certificate of Formation, the Limited Liability Company Agreement, the
Certificate of Trust, the Trust Agreement, the Purchase Agreement, the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, the Indenture, the Administration Agreement, the DTC Letter
and the Control Agreement.
"Book-Entry Note"
means a beneficial interest in any of the Notes issued in book-entry form as
described in Section 2.10 of the Indenture, which will initially include the
Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes and the Class A-4
Notes.
"Business Day" means
any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions
or trust companies in New York, New York or the State of Delaware are authorized
or obligated by law, regulation or executive order to close.
"Certificate of
Formation" means the Amended and Restated Certificate of Formation of
Ford Credit Auto Receivables Two LLC.
"Certificate of Trust"
means the Certificate of Trust of Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust
2009-B.
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"Class" means the
Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes and the Class A-4
Notes, as applicable.
"Class A Notes" means
the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes and the Class A-4
Notes.
"Class A-1 Note
Transfer" has the meaning specified in Section 2.4(i) of the
Indenture.
"Class A-1 Note Purchase
Agreement" means the Class A-1 Note Purchase Agreement, dated June 2,
2009, among the Depositor, Ford Credit and Barclays Capital Inc., BNP Paribas
Securities Corp., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., as
the "Class A-1 Note
Purchasers."
"Class A-1 Notes"
means the $560,000,000 Class A-1 0.98795% Asset Backed Notes issued by the
Issuer, substantially in the form of Exhibit A to the Indenture.
"Class A-2 Notes"
means the $341,000,000 Class A-2 2.10% Asset Backed Notes issued by the Issuer,
substantially in the form of Exhibit A to the Indenture.
"Class A-3 Notes"
means the $747,000,000 Class A-3 2.79% Asset Backed Notes issued by the Issuer,
substantially in the form of Exhibit A to the Indenture.
"Class A-4 Notes"
means the $287,300,000 Class A-4 4.50% Asset Backed Notes issued by the Issuer,
substantially in the form of Exhibit A to the Indenture.
"Clearing Agency"
means an organization registered as a "clearing agency" pursuant to Section 17A
of the Exchange Act.
"Closing Date" means
June 9, 2009.
"Code" means the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
"Collateral" means (a)
the Trust Property, (b) the Issuer's rights under the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, (c) all present and future claims, demands, causes of action and
choses in action in respect of the foregoing, and (d) all payments on or under
and all proceeds of the foregoing, but excluding, the
Trust Distribution Account (if established) and all funds deposited in the Trust
Distribution Account, if any.
"Collection Account"
means the account or accounts established and maintained pursuant to Section
4.1(a) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Collection Period"
means each calendar month, or for the first Collection Period, two calendar
months, commencing with the Cutoff Date. For any Payment Date and
Determination Date or for purposes of determining the Principal Balance, Pool
Balance or Note Pool Factor, the related Collection Period means the Collection
Period preceding (a) such Payment Date or Determination Date or (b) the month in
which the Principal Balance, Pool Balance or Note Pool Factor is
determined.
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"Collections" means,
for a Collection Period, all amounts received and applied by the Servicer on the
Receivables during such Collection Period, including, without
duplication:
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(a)
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payments
received from Obligors, plus
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(b)
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payments
received on behalf of Obligors, including amounts under physical damage,
credit life and disability insurance policies, plus
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(c)
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partial
prepayments due to refunds of cancelled items originally included in the
Amount Financed, such as extended warranty protection plan costs or
physical damage, credit life, disability insurance premiums and similar
products, plus
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(d)
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Liquidation
Proceeds, plus
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(e)
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Recoveries,
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but
excluding
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(a)
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amounts
constituting the Supplemental Servicing Fee, plus
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(b)
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amounts
on any Receivable for which the Purchase Amount is included in the
Available Funds for the related Payment Date or Final Scheduled Payment
Date.
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"Control Agreement"
means the Account Control Agreement, dated as of the Cutoff Date, among the
Depositor, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and The Bank of New York Mellon, in
its capacity as a securities intermediary.
"Controlling Class"
means the Outstanding Class A Notes.
"Corporate Trust
Office" means,
(a) with
respect to the Owner Trustee:
000
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxx 00000
Attention:
Corporate Trust Services
Telephone: (000)
000-0000
Fax: (000)
000-0000
or at
such other address in the State of Delaware as the Owner Trustee may designate
by notice to the Indenture Trustee, the Administrator and the Depositor,
and
(b) with
respect to the Indenture Trustee:
000
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 0
Xxxx
Xxx Xxxx,
Xxx Xxxx 00000
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Attention:
Structured Finance Services – Asset Backed Securities
Telephone: (000)
000-0000
Fax: (000)
000-0000
or at
such other address as the Indenture Trustee may designate by notice to the Owner
Trustee and the Administrator.
"Credit and Collection
Policy" means the credit and collection policies and procedures of Ford
Credit relating to retail installment sale contracts originated or purchased and
serviced by Ford Credit as they may change from time to time.
"Custodian" has the
meaning specified in Section 2.5 of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement.
"Cutoff Date" means
May 1, 2009.
"Dealer" means the
seller of a Financed Vehicle, originator of the related Receivable and seller of
the Receivable to Ford Credit.
"Dealer Recourse"
means all recourse rights against the originating Dealer on a
Receivable.
"Default" means any
occurrence that is, or with notice or the lapse of time or both would become, an
Event of Default.
"Definitive Notes" has
the meaning specified in Section 2.10(a) of the Indenture.
"Delaware Limited Liability
Company Act" means Chapter 18 of Title 6 of the Delaware
Code.
"Delaware Statutory Trust
Act" means Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the Delaware Code.
"Delinquent" means a
Receivable on which more than $49.99 of the scheduled payment required to be
paid by the Obligor is past due.
"Depositor" means Ford
Credit Auto Receivables Two LLC.
"Determination Date"
means, for a Collection Period, the Business Day immediately preceding the
related Payment Date.
"DTC Letter" means the
letter of representations for the Notes, dated June 9, 2009 among the Issuer,
the Indenture Trustee and The Depository Trust Company.
"ERISA" means the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
"Event of Default" has
the meaning specified in Section 5.1(a) of the Indenture.
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"Event of Servicing
Termination" has the meaning specified in Section 7.1 of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement.
"Exchange Act" means
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
"Final Scheduled Payment
Date" means, for each Class, the Payment Date specified
below:
Class
|
Final Scheduled Payment
Date
|
Class
A-1
|
June
15, 2010
|
Class
A-2
|
November
15, 2011
|
Class
A-3
|
August
15, 2013
|
Class
A-4
|
July
15,
2014
|
"Financed Vehicle"
means a new or used car or light truck and all related accessories securing an
Obligor's indebtedness under a Receivable.
"Fitch" means Fitch,
Inc., d/b/a Fitch Ratings.
"Fixed Overcollateralization
Amount" means 7.00% of the Adjusted Pool Balance on the Closing
Date.
"Ford Credit" means
Ford Motor Credit Company LLC, a Delaware limited liability
company.
"Grant" means to
mortgage, pledge, assign and to xxxxx x xxxx upon and a security interest in the
relevant property.
"Indemnified Person"
has the meaning specified in Section 6.7(c) of the Indenture, Section 6.3(b) of
the Sale and Servicing Agreement and Section 7.2(b) of the Trust Agreement, as
applicable.
"Indenture" means the
Indenture, dated as of the Cutoff Date, between the Issuer and the Indenture
Trustee.
"Indenture Trustee"
means The Bank of New York Mellon, a New York banking corporation, not in its
individual capacity but solely as Indenture Trustee under the
Indenture.
"Independent" means
that the relevant Person (a) is independent of the Issuer, the Depositor and
their Affiliates, (b) does not have any direct financial interest or any
material indirect financial interest in the Issuer, the Depositor or their
Affiliates, and (c) is not an officer, employee, promoter, underwriter, trustee,
partner, director or person performing similar functions of or for the Issuer,
the Depositor or their Affiliates.
"Independent
Certificate" means a certificate or opinion to be delivered to the
Indenture Trustee under Section 11.1 of the Indenture, signed by an Independent
appraiser or other expert appointed by an Issuer Order and approved by the
Indenture Trustee in the exercise
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reasonable care, and stating that the signer has read the definition of
"Independent" and that the signer is Independent.
"Initial Pool Balance"
means $2,308,504,668.66, the aggregate Principal Balance of the Receivables as
of the Cutoff Date.
"Initial Purchaser"
means Ford Credit Auto Receivables Two LLC.
"Insolvency Event"
means, for a Person, (a) the making of a general assignment for the benefit of
creditors, (b) the filing of a voluntary petition in bankruptcy, (c) being
adjudged bankrupt or insolvent, or having had an order entered against such
Person for relief in any bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, (d) the filing by
such Person of a petition or answer seeking reorganization, liquidation,
dissolution or similar relief under any statute, law or regulation, (e) seeking,
consenting to or acquiescing in the appointment of a trustee, liquidator,
receiver or similar official of such Person or of all or any substantial part of
such Person's assets, (f) the failure to obtain dismissal or a stay within 60
days of the commencement of or the filing by such Person of an answer or other
pleading admitting or failing to contest the material allegations of a petition
filed against such Person in any proceeding against such Person seeking (i)
reorganization, liquidation, dissolution or similar relief under any statute,
law or regulation, or (ii) the appointment of a trustee, liquidator, receiver or
similar official of such Person or of all or any substantial part of such
Person's assets, or (g) the failure by such Person generally to pay its debts as
such debts become due.
"Interest Period"
means, for a Payment Date or Final Scheduled Payment Date, (a) for the Class A-1
Notes, from the preceding Payment Date to the following Payment Date (or from
the Closing Date to July 15, 2009 in the case of the first Payment Date) or, if
the Class A-1 Notes are not paid in full prior to their Final Scheduled Payment
Date, to the Final Scheduled Payment Date for the Class A-1 Notes, if earlier,
and (b) for each other Class, from the 15th day of the calendar month preceding
each Payment Date to the 15th day of the following calendar month (or from the
Closing Date to July 15, 2009 in the case of the first Payment
Date).
"Issuer" means Ford
Credit Auto Owner Trust 2009-B.
"Issuer Order" and
"Issuer
Request" has the meaning specified in Section 11.1(a) of the
Indenture.
"Lien" means a
security interest, lien, charge, pledge or encumbrance.
"Limited Liability Company
Agreement" means the Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company
Agreement of the Depositor, dated as of March 1, 2001, executed by Ford Credit,
as sole member; or the Limited Liability Company Agreement of Ford Credit, dated
as of April 30, 2007 and effective on May 1, 2007, as the context
requires.
"Liquidated
Receivable" means a Receivable for which the Servicer has received and
applied the proceeds of a sale by auction or other disposition of the related
Financed Vehicle.
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"Liquidation Proceeds"
means, for a Collection Period and any Liquidated Receivable and any other
Receivable that is charged off during such Collection Period in accordance with
the Credit and Collection Policy, an amount equal to:
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(a)
|
all
amounts received and applied by the Servicer with respect to such
Receivable from whatever source, whether allocable to interest or
principal, during such Collection Period, minus
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(b)
|
Recoveries
with respect to such Receivable, minus
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(c)
|
the
sum of any amounts expended by the Servicer for the account of the related
Obligor in accordance with the Credit and Collection Policy, including
collection expenses and all amounts paid to third parties in connection
with the repossession, transportation, reconditioning and disposition of
the related Financed Vehicle, minus
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(d)
|
any
amounts required by law or under the Credit and Collection Policy to be
remitted to the related Obligor.
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"Monthly Investor
Report" has the meaning specified in Section 3.4(a) of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement.
"Monthly Remittance Required
Ratings" has the meaning specified in Section 4.3(a) of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement.
"Moody's" means
Xxxxx'x Investors Service, Inc.
"Note Balance" means,
for a Note or Class, the initial aggregate principal amount of such Note or
Class minus all
amounts distributed on such Note or Class that is allocable to
principal.
"Note Interest Rate"
means, for each Class, the interest rate per annum specified below:
Class
|
Note Interest Rate
|
Class
A-1
|
0.98795%
|
Class
A-2
|
2.10%
|
Class
A-3
|
2.79%
|
Class
A-4
|
4.50%
|
"Note Interest
Shortfall" means, for a Class and a Payment Date or Final Scheduled
Payment Date, an amount equal to:
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(a)
|
the
Note Monthly Interest for the preceding Payment Date for such Class, plus
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(b)
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any
outstanding Note Interest Shortfall for that Class for the preceding
Payment Date together with interest on such Note Interest Shortfall, to
the
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extent
lawful, at the Note Interest Rate for such Class for the related Interest
Period, minus
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(c)
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the
amount of interest that was paid to the Noteholders of such Class on such
preceding Payment Date.
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"Note Monthly
Interest" means, for a Class and a Payment Date or Final Scheduled
Payment Date, the aggregate amount of interest accrued on the Note Balance of
that Class at the Note Interest Rate for such Class for the related Interest
Period.
"Note Owner" means,
for a Book-Entry Note, the Person who is the beneficial owner of a Book-Entry
Note as reflected on the books of the Clearing Agency or on the books of a
Person maintaining an account with such Clearing Agency (as a direct participant
or as an indirect participant, in each case in accordance with the rules of such
Clearing Agency).
"Note Paying Agent"
means the Indenture Trustee and any other Person appointed as Note Paying Agent
pursuant to Section 2.13 of the Indenture.
"Note Pool Factor"
means, for a Class and a Payment Date, a seven-digit decimal figure equal to the
Note Balance of such Class after giving effect to any principal payments to be
made on that Class on that Payment Date divided by the initial Note Balance of
such Class.
"Note Register" and
"Note
Registrar" have the meanings specified in Section 2.4 of the
Indenture.
"Noteholder" means the
Person in whose name a Note is registered on the Note Register.
"Notes" means the
Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes and the Class A-4
Notes, collectively.
"Obligor" means the
purchaser or co-purchasers of the Financed Vehicle or any guarantor or other
Person who owes payments under the related Receivable (not including any Dealer
for Dealer Recourse).
"Officer's
Certificate" means (a) for the Issuer, a certificate signed by a
Responsible Person of the Issuer and (b) for the Depositor or the Servicer, a
certificate signed by any officer of the Depositor or the Servicer, as
applicable.
"Opinion of Counsel"
means a written opinion of counsel which counsel is reasonably acceptable to the
Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee and the Rating Agencies, as
applicable.
"Other Assets" means
any assets or interests in any assets (other than the Trust Property) conveyed
or purported to be conveyed by the Depositor to any Person other than the
Issuer, whether by way of a sale, capital contribution, the Grant of a Lien or
otherwise.
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"Outstanding" means,
as of any date, all Notes authenticated and delivered under the Indenture on or
before such date except (a) Notes that have been cancelled by the Note Registrar
or delivered to the Note Registrar for cancellation, (b) Notes or portions of
Notes to the extent an amount necessary to pay all or a portion of such Notes
has been deposited with the Indenture Trustee or any Note Paying Agent in trust
for the Noteholders of such Notes on or before such date; provided that if such
Notes are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been given pursuant to
the Indenture or provision for such notice has been made in a manner
satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, and (c) Notes in exchange for or in lieu
of which other Notes have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to the
Indenture unless proof satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee is presented that
any such Notes are held by a bona fide purchaser; provided that in
determining (i) whether Noteholders evidencing the required Note Balance have
given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver
under any Basic Document, Notes owned by the Issuer, the Depositor, the Servicer
or their Affiliates will be deemed not to be Outstanding, and (ii) whether the
Indenture Trustee is protected in relying on any such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Notes that a
Responsible Person of the Indenture Trustee knows to be so owned will be deemed
not to be Outstanding; provided, however, that,
notwithstanding the foregoing, Notes owned by the Issuer, the Depositor, the
Servicer or their Affiliates will be treated as Outstanding if (i) no other
Notes remain Outstanding or (ii) such Notes have been pledged in good faith and
the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Indenture Trustee the
pledgee's right to act with respect to such Notes and that the pledgee is not
the Issuer, the Depositor, the Servicer or their Affiliate.
"Owner Trustee" means
U.S. Bank Trust National Association and its successors and assigns, a national
banking association, not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee
under the Trust Agreement.
"Payment Date" means
the 15th day of each calendar month or, if not a Business Day, the next Business
Day, commencing in the first full month after the Closing Date.
"Permitted
Investments" means book-entry securities, negotiable instruments or
securities represented by instruments in bearer or registered form that
evidence:
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(a)
|
direct
non-callable obligations of, and obligations fully guaranteed as to timely
payment by, the United States,
|
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(b)
|
demand
deposits, time deposits, certificates of deposit or bankers' acceptances
of any depository institution or trust company (i) incorporated under the
laws of the United States or any State or any United States branch or
agency of a foreign bank, (ii) subject to supervision and examination by
federal or State banking or depository institution authorities, and (iii)
that at the time the investment or contractual commitment to invest is
made, the commercial paper or other short-term unsecured debt obligations
(other than obligations with a rating based on the credit of a Person
other than such depository institution or trust company) of such
depository institution or trust company have the Required
Rating,
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(c)
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commercial
paper, including asset-backed commercial paper, having, at the time the
investment or contractual commitment to invest is made, the Required
Rating,
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(d)
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investments
in money market funds having, at the time the investment or contractual
commitment to invest is made, a rating in the highest investment grade
category from each of the Rating Agencies (including funds for which the
Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee or any of their Affiliates is
investment manager or advisor),
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(e)
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repurchase
obligations with respect to any security that is a direct non-callable
obligation of, or fully guaranteed by, the United States or any agency or
instrumentality of the United States the obligations of which are backed
by the full faith and credit of the United States, in either case entered
into with a depository institution or trust company (acting as principal)
described in clause (b) above, and
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(f)
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any
other investment for which the Issuer or the Administrator has received
Rating Agency Confirmation.
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"Permitted Lien" means
a tax, mechanics' or other Lien that attaches by operation of law, or any
security interest of the Depositor in the Purchased Property under the Purchase
Agreement, the Issuer in the Trust Property under the Sale and Servicing
Agreement or the Indenture Trustee in the Collateral under the
Indenture.
"Person" means any
legal person, including any corporation, natural person, joint venture, limited
liability company, partnership, trust, business trust, association, government,
any department or agency of any government or any other entity of whatever
nature.
"Pool Balance" means,
on the last day of a Collection Period, an amount equal to the aggregate
Principal Balance of the Receivables as of such day, excluding Purchased
Receivables.
"Preliminary
Prospectus" means the preliminary prospectus supplement, dated May 29,
2009, to the Depositor's prospectus, dated May 26, 2009.
"Principal Balance"
means, for a Receivable as of the close of business on the last day of a
Collection Period, an amount (not less than zero) equal to:
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(a)
|
the
Amount Financed, minus
|
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(b)
|
the
portion of all Collections applied on or prior to such date allocable to
principal, minus
|
|
(c)
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Realized
Losses.
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"Principal Payment
Account" means the account established and maintained pursuant to Section
4.1(b) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
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"Proceeding" means any
suit in equity, action at law or other judicial or administrative proceeding, or
governmental investigation.
"Priority Principal
Payment" means, for a Payment Date, the greater of:
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(a)
|
an
amount (not less than zero) equal to the Note Balance of the Class A Notes
as of the preceding Payment Date or the Closing Date, as applicable, minus the
Adjusted Pool Balance, and
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(b)
|
on
and after the Final Scheduled Payment Date of any Class A Notes, the Note
Balance of such Class A Notes.
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"Prospectus" means (a)
the final prospectus supplement, dated June 2, 2009, to the Depositor's
prospectus, dated May 26, 2009, relating to the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3
Notes and the Class A-4 Notes and (b) the final offering memorandum, dated June
2, 2009, relating to the Class A-1 Notes.
"Purchase Agreement"
means the Purchase Agreement, dated as of the Cutoff Date, between the Sponsor
and the Depositor.
"Purchase Amount"
means, for a Receivable for which the Purchase Amount is to be included in
Available Funds for a Payment Date or Final Scheduled Payment Date, the
Principal Balance of the Receivable as of the last day of the second preceding
Collection Period plus 30 days of interest at the applicable APR or, if such
Receivable has been charged off, an amount equal to the Realized Loss on such
Receivable minus any Recoveries through the last day of the preceding Collection
Period.
"Purchased Property"
means (a) the Receivables, (b) all amounts received and applied on the
Receivables on or after the Cutoff Date, (c) the security interests in the
Financed Vehicles granted by Obligors pursuant to the Receivables and any other
interest of Ford Credit in the Financed Vehicles, (d) rights to receive proceeds
from claims on any physical damage, credit life, credit disability or other
insurance policies covering Financed Vehicles or Obligors, (e) Dealer Recourse,
(f) the Receivables Files, (g) all property securing the Receivables, (h)
rebates of premiums and other amounts relating to insurance policies and other
items financed under the Receivables in effect as of the Cutoff Date, (i) all
present and future claims, demands, causes of action and choses in action in
respect of any of the foregoing, and (j) all payments on or under and all
proceeds in respect of any of the foregoing.
"Purchased Receivable"
means, for a Collection Period, a Receivable (a) purchased by the Servicer
pursuant to Section 3.2(a) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, (b) repurchased
by the Depositor pursuant to Section 2.4(a) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement,
or (c) repurchased by Ford Credit pursuant to Section 3.3(a) of the Purchase
Agreement and for which, in each case, the Purchase Amount is included in
Available Funds for the related Payment Date or Final Scheduled Payment Date, as
applicable.
"QIB" has the meaning
specified in Section 2.4 of the Indenture.
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"Qualified
Institution" means (a) any bank or depository institution organized under
the laws of the United States or any State or any United States branch or agency
of a foreign bank or depository institution that (i) is subject to supervision
and examination by federal or State banking authorities, (ii) has a short-term
deposit rating of "P-1" from Moody's, "A-1+" from Standard & Poor's and
"F1+" from Fitch (if rated by Fitch), (iii) if such institution holds any Bank
Accounts other than as segregated trust accounts and the deposits are to be held
in such accounts more than 30 days, has a long-term unsecured debt rating or
issuer rating of "AA-" or better from Standard & Poor's and "AA-" or better
from Fitch (if rated by Fitch), and (iv) if such institution is organized under
the laws of the United States, whose deposits are insured by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation, or (b) the corporate trust department of (i) The Bank of
New York Mellon, (ii) U.S. Bank Trust National Association, or (iii) any other
bank or depository institution organized under the laws of the United States or
any State or any United States branch or agency of a foreign bank or depository
institution that is subject to supervision and examination by federal or State
banking authorities that (x) is authorized under such laws to act as a trustee
or in any other fiduciary capacity, and (y) has a long-term deposit rating of
"Baa3" or better from Moody's and "BBB-" or better from Fitch (if rated by
Fitch).
"Rating Agency" means,
as of any date, each nationally recognized statistical rating organization that
has been designated by the Depositor to provide a rating on the Notes and is
then rating the Notes.
"Rating Agency
Confirmation" means, for an action or request, that (a) Standard &
Poor's has notified the Depositor, the Servicer, the Owner Trustee and the
Indenture Trustee that such action or request will not result in a reduction or
withdrawal of its then current rating of the Notes and (b) the Issuer has given
ten Business Days' prior written notice to Fitch, and Fitch has not notified the
Depositor, the Servicer, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee in writing
that such action will result in a downgrade or withdrawal of the then current
rating on any of the Notes.
"Realized Loss" means,
for a Receivable that is charged off by the Servicer in accordance with the
Credit and Collection Policy, an amount (not less than zero) equal
to:
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(a)
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the
Principal Balance of such Receivable as of the last day of the Collection
Period preceding the Collection Period in which the Receivable is charged
off, minus
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(b)
|
any
Liquidation Proceeds received in the Collection Period in which the
Receivable is charged off.
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"Receivable" means,
for a Collection Period, any retail installment sale contract listed on the
Schedule of Receivables, excluding any such contract that became a Purchased
Receivable during a preceding Collection Period.
"Receivables Files"
has the meaning specified in Section 2.5 of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement.
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"Record Date" means,
for a Payment Date and a Book-Entry Note, the close of business on the day
before such Payment Date and, for a Payment Date and a Definitive Note, the last
day of the month preceding the month in which such Payment Date
occurs.
"Recoveries" means,
for a Receivable that has been charged off in accordance with the Credit and
Collection Policy (whether or not such Receivable is a Liquidated Receivable)
and a Collection Period, an amount equal to:
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(a)
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all
amounts received and applied by the Servicer during such Collection Period
with respect to such Receivable from whatever source, whether allocable to
interest or principal, after the date it was charged off, minus
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(b)
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the
sum of any amounts expended by the Servicer for the account of the related
Obligor in accordance with the Credit and Collection Policy, including
collection expenses and all amounts paid to third parties in connection
with the repossession, transportation, reconditioning and disposition of
the related Financed Vehicle to the extent such amounts have not been
included in calculating Liquidation Proceeds for such Collection Period,
minus
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(c)
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any
amounts required by law or under the Credit and Collection Policy to be
remitted to the Obligor.
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"Redemption Date"
means the Payment Date specified by the Servicer for a redemption of the Notes
pursuant to Section 10.1 of the Indenture.
"Registered
Noteholder" means the Person in whose name a Note is registered on the
Note Register on the applicable Record Date.
"Regular Principal
Payment" means, for a Payment Date or Final Scheduled Payment Date, an
amount (not less than zero) equal to:
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(a)
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the
greater of:
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(i)
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the
Note Balance of the Class A-1 Notes as of the preceding Payment Date or
the Closing Date, as applicable,
and
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(ii)
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an
amount equal to:
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(A)
|
the
aggregate Note Balances of all Notes as of the preceding Payment Date or
the Closing Date, as applicable, minus
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(B)
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the
Pool Balance as of the last day of the preceding Collection Period minus the
Targeted Overcollateralization
Amount,
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minus
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(b) the
Priority Principal Payment.
"Regulation AB" means
Subpart 229.1100 – Asset Backed Securities (Regulation AB), 17 C.F.R.
§§229.1100-229.1123, as clarified and interpreted by the Securities and Exchange
Commission or its staff.
"Required Rating"
means, for short-term unsecured debt obligations, a rating of (a) "P-1" from
Moody's, (b) "A-1+" from Standard & Poor's and (c) if rated by Fitch,
"F1+" from Fitch.
"Reserve Account"
means the account established and maintained pursuant to Section 4.1(c) of the
Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Reserve Account Draw
Amount" means, for a Payment Date the lesser of:
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(a)
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an
amount (not less than zero) equal to the Total Required Payment minus Available
Funds determined without regard to the Reserve Account Draw Amount,
and
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(b)
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the
amount in the Reserve Account minus any
investment earnings.
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"Residual Interest"
means a beneficial ownership interest in the Issuer, as recorded on the Trust
Register.
"Responsible Person"
means:
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(a)
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for
the Administrator, the Depositor, the Sponsor and the Servicer, any Person
designated in an Officer's Certificate of such Person or other notice
signed by an officer of such Person as authorized to act for such Person,
which Officer's Certificate or other notice has been sent to all other
transaction parties including the Owner Trustee and the Indenture
Trustee,
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(b)
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with
respect to the Issuer, any officer within the Corporate Trust Office of
the Owner Trustee, including any vice president, assistant vice president,
secretary, assistant secretary or any other officer of the Owner Trustee
customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the
above designated officers and also, with respect to a particular matter,
any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of such
officer's knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject, and
for so long as the Administration Agreement is in effect, any Responsible
Person of the Administrator, and
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(c)
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with
respect to the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, any officer within
the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee,
as the case may be, including any vice president, assistant vice
president, secretary, assistant secretary or any other officer of the
Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, as the case may be, customarily
performing functions similar to those performed by any of the
above
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designated
officers and also, with respect to a particular matter, any other officer to
whom such matter is referred because of such officer's knowledge of and
familiarity with the particular subject and also means, with respect to the
Owner Trustee, for so long as the Administration Agreement is in effect, any
Responsible Person of the Administrator.
"Rule 144A" means Rule
144A under the Securities Act.
"Rule 144A
Information" has the meaning specified in Section 2.4 of the
Indenture.
"Sale and Servicing
Agreement" means the Sale and Servicing Agreement, dated as of the Cutoff
Date, among the Issuer, the Depositor and the Servicer.
"Schedule of
Receivables" means the schedule or file identifying the Receivables
attached as Exhibit A to the Purchase Agreement and Schedule A to the Sale and
Servicing Agreement and the Indenture.
"Secured Parties"
means the Noteholders.
"Securities Account"
means each account established and maintained pursuant to Section 1 of the
Control Agreement.
"Securities Act" means
the Securities Act of 1933.
"Servicer" means Ford
Credit or the Successor Servicer.
"Servicing Fee" means,
for a Collection Period, the fee payable to the Servicer for services rendered
during such Collection Period in an amount equal to the product of:
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(a)
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one-twelfth
of 1.0%, times
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(b)
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the
Pool Balance as of the last day of the preceding Collection
Period
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provided, that with respect to
the first Collection Period, the Servicing Fee will be an amount equal to sum of
the amounts for each month in the first Collection Period equal to the product
of:
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(a)
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one-twelfth
of 1.0%, times
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(b)
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the
Pool Balance as of the last day of the preceding month (or the Cutoff Date
for the first month).
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"Similar Law" means
any federal, state, local or non-U.S. law or regulation that is, to a material
extent, similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code.
"Specified Reserve
Balance" means $23,085,046.69, or 1.00% of the Initial Pool
Balance.
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"Sponsor" means Ford
Credit.
"Standard &
Poor's" means Standard & Poor's, a division of The XxXxxx-Xxxx
Companies, Inc.
"State" means any
state or commonwealth of the United States, or the District of
Columbia.
"Successor Servicer"
means a successor Servicer appointed pursuant to Section 7.2 of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement.
"Supplemental Servicing
Fee" means, for a Collection Period, all late fees, prepayment charges,
extension fees and other administrative fees or similar charges on the
Receivables.
"Targeted Credit Enhancement
Amount" means, for a Payment Date, the greater of:
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(a)
|
the
Specified Reserve Balance, and
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(b)
|
1.50%
of the Pool Balance as of the last day of the preceding Collection
Period.
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"Targeted
Overcollateralization Amount" means, for a Payment Date, an amount equal
to:
|
(a)
|
the
Yield Supplement Overcollateralization Amount, plus
|
|
(b)
|
the
Targeted Credit Enhancement Amount, minus
|
|
(c)
|
the
Specified Reserve Balance, plus
|
|
(d)
|
the
Fixed Overcollateralization Amount.
|
"Total Required Payment"
means, for a Payment Date, the sum of
|
(a)
|
the
amount, up to a maximum of $150,000, payable to the Indenture Trustee
under Section 6.7 of the Indenture and to the Owner Trustee under Sections
7.1 and 7.2 of the Trust Agreement, and any expenses of the Issuer
incurred in accordance with the Basic Documents, plus
|
|
(b)
|
the
Servicing Fee and all unpaid Servicing Fees from preceding Collection
Periods, plus
|
|
(c)
|
the
Accrued Note Interest for all Classes of Notes, plus
|
|
(d)
|
the
Priority Principal Payment.
|
AA-18
Following
an Event of Default and an acceleration of the Notes or an Insolvency Event or
dissolution of the Depositor, until the Note Balances of all Notes have been
paid in full, the Total Required Payment will also include the aggregate Note
Balances of all Notes.
"Trust Accounts" means
the Bank Accounts and the Trust Distribution Account (if
established).
"Trust Agreement"
means the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement dated as of the Cutoff Date,
between the Depositor and the Owner Trustee.
"Trust Distribution
Account" means the account that may be established and maintained
pursuant to Section 4.1(h) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
"Trust Indenture Act"
or "TIA" means
the Trust Indenture Act of 1939.
"Trust Property" means
(a) the Purchased Property, (b) the Depositor's rights under the Purchase
Agreement, (c) the Depositor's rights under the Sale and Servicing Agreement,
(d) all security entitlements relating to the Trust Accounts and the property
deposited in or credited to any of the Trust Accounts, (e) all present and
future claims, demands, causes of action and choses in action in respect of any
of the foregoing, and (f) all payments on or under and all proceeds in respect
of any of the foregoing.
"Trust Register" and
"Trust
Registrar" have the meanings specified in Section 3.2 of the Trust
Agreement.
"UCC" means the
Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction.
"Underwriting
Agreement" means the Underwriting Agreement, dated June 2, 2009, among
the Depositor, Ford Credit and Barclays Capital Inc., BNP Paribas Securities
Corp., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., as the
representatives of the underwriters named in such agreement.
"U.S. Bank Trust"
means U.S. Bank Trust National Association, a national banking
association.
"Void Class A-1 Note
Transfer" has the meaning specified in Section 2.4(i) of the
Indenture.
"Yield Supplement
Overcollateralization Amount" means, for the Closing Date and each
Payment Date, the amount specified on the Yield Supplement Overcollateralization
Schedule for such date. The Yield Supplement Overcollateralization
Amount has been calculated for the Closing Date and each Payment Date as the sum
for each Receivable of the amount (not less than zero) equal to:
|
(a)
|
the
future payments on the Receivable discounted to present value as of the
last day of the preceding Collection Period (or the Cutoff Date, for the
Closing Date) at the APR of the Receivable, minus
|
AA-19
|
(b)
|
the
future payments on the Receivable discounted to present value as of the
last day of the preceding Collection Period (or the Cutoff Date, for the
Closing Date) at 11.25%.
|
For
purposes of this calculation, the future payments on each Receivable are the
equal monthly payments that would reduce the Receivable's Principal Balance as
of the Cutoff Date to zero on the Receivable's final scheduled payment date, at
an interest rate equal to the APR of the Receivable and without any delays,
defaults or prepayments.
"Yield Supplement
Overcollateralization Schedule" means, for the Closing Date and each
Payment Date, the following schedule:
Closing
Date
|
$271,308,694.99
|
June
2012
|
$48,461,124.34
|
|
July
2009
|
254,460,037.89
|
July
2012
|
45,123,341.85
|
|
August
2009
|
246,233,162.92
|
August
2012
|
41,918,203.07
|
|
September
2009
|
238,138,616.31
|
September
2012
|
38,845,458.94
|
|
October
2009
|
230,176,603.97
|
October
2012
|
35,905,249.52
|
|
November
2009
|
222,347,450.36
|
November
2012
|
33,096,616.40
|
|
December
2009
|
214,650,883.12
|
December
2012
|
30,417,708.43
|
|
January
2010
|
207,086,744.77
|
January
2013
|
27,868,065.03
|
|
February
2010
|
199,655,444.09
|
February
2013
|
25,447,924.22
|
|
March
2010
|
192,357,907.39
|
March
2013
|
23,158,469.56
|
|
April
2010
|
185,195,341.46
|
April
2013
|
21,000,632.36
|
|
May
2010
|
178,169,015.90
|
May
2013
|
18,975,355.78
|
|
June
2010
|
171,279,849.77
|
June
2013
|
17,080,870.90
|
|
July
2010
|
164,528,831.73
|
July
2013
|
15,314,577.56
|
|
August
2010
|
157,917,023.99
|
August
2013
|
13,669,268.20
|
|
September
2010
|
151,445,264.90
|
September
2013
|
12,137,091.24
|
|
October
2010
|
145,114,181.00
|
October
2013
|
10,713,152.86
|
|
November
2010
|
138,923,760.65
|
November
2013
|
9,393,466.82
|
|
December
2010
|
132,873,739.32
|
December
2013
|
8,178,316.32
|
|
January
2011
|
126,963,539.56
|
January
2014
|
7,067,780.79
|
|
February
2011
|
121,193,891.95
|
February
2014
|
6,062,475.79
|
|
March
2011
|
115,566,272.40
|
March
2014
|
5,163,107.92
|
|
April
2011
|
110,082,086.22
|
April
2014
|
4,369,398.87
|
|
May
2011
|
104,742,782.86
|
May
2014
|
3,680,350.87
|
|
June
2011
|
99,549,413.68
|
June
2014
|
3,078,908.28
|
|
July
2011
|
94,502,669.47
|
July
2014
|
2,537,679.03
|
|
August
2011
|
89,602,200.42
|
August
2014
|
2,053,625.18
|
|
September
2011
|
84,846,802.70
|
September
2014
|
1,624,200.71
|
|
October
2011
|
80,234,921.34
|
October
2014
|
1,247,427.71
|
|
November
2011
|
75,763,579.47
|
November
2014
|
920,234.74
|
|
December
2011
|
71,433,552.42
|
December
2014
|
642,485.24
|
|
January
2012
|
67,245,537.65
|
January
2015
|
414,115.50
|
|
February
2012
|
63,200,574.16
|
February
2015
|
235,625.22
|
|
March
2012
|
59,299,660.00
|
March
2015
|
107,413.89
|
|
April
2012
|
55,543,117.86
|
April
2015
|
29,346.12
|
|
May
2012
|
51,931,581.90
|
AA-20
Exhibit
A
Ford
Credit Auto Owner Trust 2009-B
Monthly
Investor Report
Collection
Period
Payment
Date
Transaction
Month(s)
Additional
information about the structure, cashflows, defined terms and parties for this
transaction can be found in the prospectus supplement, available on the SEC
website (xxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx) under the registration number 333-143316 and at
xxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/xxxxx.xxxxx.
ORIGINAL DEAL
PARAMETERS
Dollar
Amount
|
#
of Receivables
|
Weighted
Avg Remaining
|
|
Term
at Cutoff
|
|||
Initial
Pool Balance
|
|||
Original
Securities:
|
Dollar
Amount
|
Note
Interest Rate
|
Legal
Final Maturity
|
Class A-1 Notes
|
%
|
||
Class A-2 Notes
|
%
|
||
Class A-3 Notes
|
%
|
||
Class A-4 Notes
|
%
|
||
Total
|
%
|
II. AVAILABLE
FUNDS
Interest:
|
Interest
Collections
|
Principal:
|
Principal
Collections
Prepayments
in Full
Liquidation Proceeds
Recoveries
|
|
Sub
Total
|
Collections
Purchase
Amounts:
|
Purchase
Amounts Related to Principal
Purchase Amounts Related to
Interest
|
EA-1
Sub
Total
|
Clean-up
Call
|
|
Reserve
Account Draw Amount
|
Available
Funds – Total
III.
DISTRIBUTIONS
Calculated
Amount
|
Amount
Paid
|
Shortfall
|
Carryover
Shortfall
|
Remaining
Available
Funds
|
|
Owner
Trustee Fees and Expenses
Indenture
Trustee Fees and Expenses
Servicing
Fee
Interest
- Class A-1 Notes
Interest
- Class A-2 Notes
Interest
- Class A-3 Notes
Interest
- Class A-4 Notes
Priority
Principal Payment
Reserve
Account Deposit
Regular
Principal Payment
Additional
Trustee Fees and Expenses
Residual
Released to Depositor
Total
|
Principal
Payment:
|
|
Priority
Principal Payment
Regular
Principal Payment
|
|
Total
|
IV. NOTEHOLDER
PAYMENTS
Noteholder
Principal Payments
Actual
Per $1,000 of Original Balance
|
Noteholder
Interest Payments
Actual
Per $1,000 of Original Balance
|
Total
Payment
Actual
Per $1,000 of Original Balance
|
EA-2
Class A-1
Notes
Class A-2
Notes
Class A-3
Notes
Class A-4
Notes
Total
V. NOTE BALANCE AND POOL
INFORMATION
Beginning
of Period
|
End
of Period
|
|||
Balance
|
Note
Factor
|
Balance
|
Note
Factor
|
Class A-1
Notes
Class A-2
Notes
Class A-3
Notes
Class A-4
Notes
Total
Pool
Information
Weighted
Average APR
Weighted
Average Remaining Term
Number of
Receivables Outstanding
Pool
Balance
Adjusted
Pool Balance (Pool Balance - YSOC Amount)
Pool
Factor
VI. OVERCOLLATERALIZATION
INFORMATION
Specified
Reserve Balance
Targeted
Credit Enhancement Amount
Yield
Supplement Overcollateralization Amount
Targeted
Overcollateralization Amount
Actual
Overcollateralization Amount (EOP Pool Balance -EOP Note
Balance)
VII. RECONCILIATION OF
RESERVE ACCOUNT
Beginning
Reserve Account Balance
Reserve
Account Deposits Made
Reserve
Account Draw Amount
Ending
Reserve Account Balance
Change in
Reserve Account Balance
EA-3
Specified Reserve Balance
VIII. NET LOSSES AND
DELINQUENT ACCOUNTS
# of Receivables
|
Amount
|
Realized
Loss
(Recoveries)
Net
Losses for Current Collection Period
Cumulative
Net Losses Last Collection
Cumulative
Net Losses for all Collection Periods
Ratio of
Net Losses for Current Collection Period to Beginning of Period Pool Balance
(annualized)
Delinquent
Receivables:
% of EOP Pool
|
# of Receivables
|
Amount
|
31-60
Days Delinquent
61-90
Days Delinquent
Over 120
Days Delinquent
Total
Delinquent Receivables
Repossession
Inventory:
Repossessed
in Current Collection Period
Total
Repossessed Inventory
Ratio
of Net Losses to the Average Pool Balance for the Collection
Period:
Second
Preceding Collection Period
Preceding
Collection Period
Current
Collection Period
Three
Month Average
Number
of 61+ Delinquent Receivables to EOP Number of Outstanding
Receivables:
Second
Preceding Collection Period
Preceding
Collection Period
Current
Collection Period
Three
Month Average
EA-4