Exhibit 4.1
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SERIES SUPPLEMENT
CORPORATE BACKED TRUST CERTIFICATES
SERIES 2001-8 TRUST
between
XXXXXX ABS CORPORATION,
as Depositor
and
U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
CORPORATE BACKED TRUST CERTIFICATES
Dated as of March 8, 2001
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Section 1. Incorporation of Standard Terms.......................................................1
Section 2. Definitions...........................................................................1
Section 3. Designation of Trust and Certificates.................................................7
Section 4. Trust Certificates....................................................................8
Section 5. Distributions.........................................................................9
Section 6. Trustee's Fees.......................................................................11
Section 7. Optional Exchange; Optional Redemption...............................................11
Section 8. Events of Default....................................................................13
Section 9. Miscellaneous........................................................................14
Section 10. Governing Law........................................................................16
Section 11. Counterparts.........................................................................16
Section 12. Termination of the Trust.............................................................16
Section 13. Sale of Underlying Securities........................................................17
Section 14. Amendments...........................................................................17
Section 15. Voting of Underlying Securities, Modification of Indenture...........................17
SCHEDULE I SERIES 2001-8 UNDERLYING SECURITIES SCHEDULE
SCHEDULE II CALL SCHEDULE
EXHIBIT A-1 FORM OF TRUST CERTIFICATE CLASS A-1
EXHIBIT A-2 FORM OF TRUST CERTIFICATE CLASS A-2
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SERIES SUPPLEMENT
CORPORATE BACKED TRUST CERTIFICATES
Series 2001-8 TRUST
SERIES SUPPLEMENT, Series 2001-8, dated as of March 8, 2001
(the "Series Supplement"), by and between XXXXXX ABS CORPORATION, as Depositor
(the "Depositor"), and U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee (the
"Trustee").
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, the Depositor desires to create the Trust designated
herein (the "Trust") by executing and delivering this Series Supplement, which
shall incorporate the terms of the Standard Terms for Trust Agreements, dated as
of January 16, 2001 (the "Standard Terms"; together with this Series Supplement,
the "Trust Agreement"), by and between the Depositor and the Trustee, as
modified by this Series Supplement;
WHEREAS, the Depositor desires to deposit the Underlying
Securities set forth on Schedule I attached hereto (the "Underlying Securities
Schedule") into the Trust;
WHEREAS, in connection with the creation of the Trust and the
deposit therein of the Underlying Securities, it is desired to provide for the
issuance of trust certificates (the "Certificates") evidencing undivided
interests in the Trust; and
WHEREAS, the Trustee has joined in the execution of the
Standard Terms and this Series Supplement to evidence the acceptance by the
Trustee of the Trust;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing premises and
the mutual covenants expressed herein, it is hereby agreed by and between the
Depositor and the Trustee as follows:
Section 1. Incorporation of Standard Terms. Except as
otherwise provided herein, all of the provisions of the Standard Terms are
hereby incorporated herein by reference in their entirety, and this Series
Supplement and the Standard Terms shall form a single agreement between the
parties. In the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of this Series
Supplement and the provisions of the Standard Terms, the provisions of this
Series Supplement will control with respect to the Series 2001-8 Certificates
and the transactions described herein.
Section 2. Definitions. a) Except as otherwise specified
herein or as the context may otherwise require, the following terms shall have
the respective meanings set forth below for all purposes under this Series
Supplement. (Section 2(b) below sets forth terms listed in the Standard Terms
which are not applicable to this Series.) Capitalized terms used but not defined
herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Standard Terms.
"Available Funds" shall have the meaning specified in the
Standard Terms, except that investment income earned on funds invested pursuant
to Section 3.05 of the Standard Terms shall be included in Available Funds.
"Business Day" shall mean any day other than (i) Saturday and
Sunday or (ii) a day on which banking institutions in New York City, New York
are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to be closed for business
or (iii) a day that is not a business day for the purposes of the Indenture.
"Call Date" shall mean any date occurring on or after March 8,
2006, or after the announcement of any redemption or other unscheduled payment
or sale of the Underlying Securities on which the Call Rights are exercised and
the proceeds of an Optional Call are distributed to holders of the Certificates
pursuant to Section 7 hereof.
"Call Price" shall mean, for each related Call Date, (i) in
the case of the Class A-1 Certificates the par value of the Certificates, plus
any accrued and unpaid interest on such amount to but excluding the Call Date
and (ii) in the case of the Class A-2 Certificates, any accrued and unpaid
interest on the notional amount of such Certificates called to but excluding the
Call Date, plus the additional amount (or portion thereof, in case of a partial
call) set forth under the heading "Value" in Schedule II hereof for such Call
Date or, if such Call Date is not a Distribution Date, the immediately following
Distribution Date.
"Call Request" shall have the meaning specified in Section
7(b) hereof.
"Call Rights" shall mean the rights to purchase in whole or in
part at the Call Price the Certificates, and thereby cause an Optional Call of
the Certificates on any Call Date pursuant to the Optional Call provisions of
Section 7 hereof.
"Certificate Account" shall have the meaning specified in the
Standard Terms.
"Certificates" shall have the meaning specified in Section 3
hereof.
"Class A-1 Certificates" shall mean the Certificates, in the
form attached hereto as Exhibit A-1, to be issued by the Trust representing a
proportionate undivided beneficial ownership interest in certain distributions
to be made by the Trust and having the characteristics described herein and in
the Certificates.
"Class A-2 Certificates" shall mean the Certificates, in the
form attached hereto as Exhibit A-2, to be issued by the Trust representing a
proportionate undivided beneficial ownership interest in certain distributions
to be made by the Trust and having the characteristics described herein and in
the Certificates.
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"Closing Date" shall mean March 8, 2001.
"Collection Period" shall mean, (i) with respect to each
December Distribution Date, the period beginning on the day after the June
Distribution Date and ending on such December Distribution Date, inclusive and,
(ii) with respect to each June Distribution Date, the period beginning on the
day after the December Distribution Date of a given year and ending on the June
Distribution Date of the following year, inclusive; provided, however, that
clauses (i) and (ii) shall be subject to Section 9(f) hereof.
"Corporate Trust Office" shall mean the office of U.S. Bank
Trust National Association located at 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000.
"Currency" shall mean United States Dollars.
"Depository" shall mean The Depository Trust Company.
"Distribution Date" shall mean June 15 and December 15 of each
year (or if such date is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day),
commencing on June 15, 2001 and ending on the Final Scheduled Distribution Date
(absent the exercise by the Underlying Securities Issuer of its right to defer
interest payments) or any date on which the Underlying Securities Issuer
exercises an optional redemption right.
"Eligible Account" shall have the meaning specified in the
Standard Terms.
"Eligible Investments" shall be as defined in the Standard
Terms; provided, however, that (i) the minimum required rating for long-term
instruments will be equal to the rating of the Underlying Securities, and (ii)
the rating of any short-term instruments will be A-1+ by S&P and P1 by Moody's;
and provided, further, that any such investment matures no later than the
Business Day prior to any related Distribution Date and that any such investment
be denominated in U.S. dollars.
"Event of Default" shall mean (i) a default in the payment of
any interest on any Underlying Security after the same becomes due and payable
(subject to any permitted deferrals and applicable grace period), (ii) a default
in the payment of the principal of or any installment of principal of any
Underlying Security when the same becomes due and payable and (iii) any other
event specified as an "Event of Default" in the Indenture.
"Extraordinary Trust Expenses" shall have the meaning
specified in the Standard Terms.
"Final Scheduled Distribution Date" shall mean June 15, 2024.
"Indenture" shall mean the indenture pursuant to which the
Underlying Securities were issued.
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"Interest Accrual Period" shall mean for any Distribution
Date, the period from and including the preceding Distribution Date (or in the
case of the first Interest Accrual Period, from and including March 8, 2001) to
but excluding the current Distribution Date.
"Liquidation Price" shall mean the price at which the Trustee
sells the Underlying Securities.
"Liquidation Proceeds" shall have the meaning specified in the
Standard Terms.
"Maturity Date" shall have the meaning specified in Schedule I
hereto.
"Moody's" shall mean Xxxxx'x Investors Service, Inc.
"Optional Call" shall mean the call of the Certificates by the
Rights Holder, in whole or in part, resulting from the exercise of Call Rights
by the Rights Holder, pursuant to Section 7 hereof.
"Optional Exchange" shall mean the exchange of the
Certificates by the Trust for the Underlying Securities, pursuant to Section 7
hereof.
"Optional Exchange Date" shall mean any Distribution Date on
which Underlying Securities subject to Optional Exchange are distributed to the
Depositor or any of its Affiliates, as a Certificateholder.
"Ordinary Expenses" shall mean the Trustee's ordinary expenses
and overhead in connection with its services as Trustee, including the items
referred to in the definition of Ordinary Expenses in the Standard Terms.
"Prepaid Ordinary Expenses" shall be zero for this Series.
"Prospectus Supplement" shall mean the Prospectus Supplement,
dated February 27, 2001, relating to the Certificates.
"Rating Agency" shall mean Moody's and S&P.
"Rating Agency Condition" shall have the meaning specified in
the Standard Terms.
"Record Date" shall mean, with respect to each Distribution
Date, the day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.
"Required Interest" shall have the meaning specified in the
Standard Terms.
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"Required Percentage-Amendment" shall be 66-2/3% of the
aggregate Voting Rights.
"Required Percentage-Direction of Trustee" shall be 66-2/3% of
the aggregate Voting Rights.
"Required Percentage-Remedies" shall be 66-2/3% of the
aggregate Voting Rights.
"Required Percentage-Removal" shall be 66-2/3% of the
aggregate Voting Rights.
"Required Rating" shall mean, in the case of Moody's, the
rating assigned to the Underlying Securities by Moody's as of the Closing Date,
and, in the case of S&P, the rating assigned to the Underlying Securities by S&P
as of the Closing Date.
"Rights Holder" shall mean the holder of the Call Rights.
"S&P" shall mean Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, a
division of The McGraw Hill Companies Inc.
"Series" shall mean Series 2001-8.
"Trustee Fee" shall mean the amount paid to the Trustee by the
Depositor on the Closing Date.
"Trust Property" shall mean the Underlying Securities
described on Schedule I hereto and the Certificate Account.
"Underlying Securities" shall mean $32,575,000 aggregate
principal amount of 8.10% Debentures due 2024 issued by the Underlying
Securities Issuer, as set forth on Schedule I attached hereto (subject to
Section 3(d) hereof).
"Underlying Securities Issuer" shall mean General Motors
Corporation.
"Underlying Securities Trustee" shall mean Citibank, N.A.
"Underwriters" shall mean Xxxxxx Brothers Inc., an affiliate
of the Depositor, and Prudential Securities Incorporated.
"Voting Rights" shall, in the entirety, unless otherwise set
forth herein, be allocated among all Class A-1 Certificateholders in proportion
to the then unpaid principal amounts of their respective Certificates.
(b) The terms listed below are not applicable to this
Series.
"Accounting Date"
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"Administrative Fees"
"Advance"
"Allowable Expense Amounts"
"Basic Documents"
"Calculation Agent"
"Call Premium Percentage"
"Credit Support"
"Credit Support Instrument"
"Credit Support Provider"
"Cut-off Date"
"Eligible Expense"
"Exchange Rate Agent"
"Fixed Pass-Through Rate"
"Floating Pass-Through Rate"
"Guaranteed Investment Contract"
"Letter of Credit"
"Limited Guarantor"
"Limited Guaranty"
"Minimum Wire Denomination"
"Notional Amount"
"Optional Exchange Date"
"Pass-Through Rate"
"Place of Distribution"
"Purchase Price"
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"Required Premium"
"Required Principal"
"Requisite Reserve Amount"
"Retained Interest"
"Sale Procedures"
"Sub-Administration Account"
"Sub-Administration Agreement"
"Sub-Administration Agent"
"Surety Bond"
"Swap Agreement"
"Swap Counterparty"
"Swap Distribution Amount"
"Swap Guarantee"
"Swap Guarantor"
"Swap Receipt Amount"
"Swap Termination Payment"
Section 3. Designation of Trust and Certificates. The Trust
created hereby shall be known as the "Corporate -Backed Trust Certificates,
Series 2001-8 Trust." The Certificates evidencing certain undivided ownership
interests therein shall be known as "Corporate Backed Trust Certificates, Series
2001-8." The Certificates shall consist of the Class A-1 Certificates and the
Class A-2 Certificates (together, the "Certificates").
(a) The Certificates shall be held through the Depository in
book-entry form and shall be substantially in the forms attached hereto as
Exhibits A-1 and A-2. The Class A-1 Certificates shall be issued in
denominations of $25. The Class A-2 Certificates shall be issued in minimum
notional denominations of $1,000 and in integral multiples of $1,000 in excess
thereof. One Class A-2 Certificate may be issued in a notional amount that is
not an integral multiple of the applicable minimum denomination. Except as
provided in the Standard Terms and in paragraph (d) in this Section, the Trust
shall not issue additional Certificates or incur any indebtedness.
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(b) The Class A-1 Certificates have an initial aggregate
Certificate Principal Amount of $32,575,000. The Class A-2 Certificates are
interest-only Certificates, and have a notional principal amount equal to the
Certificate Principal Amount of the Class A-1 Certificates.
(c) The holders of the Class A-1 Certificates will be entitled
to receive on each Distribution Date the interest, if any, received on the
Underlying Securities, to the extent necessary to pay interest at a rate of
7.375% per annum on the outstanding Certificate Principal Amount of the Class
A-1 Certificates. The holders of the Class A-2 Certificates will be entitled to
receive on each Distribution Date the interest, if any, received on the
Underlying Securities, to the extent necessary to pay interest at a rate of
0.725% per annum on the outstanding notional principal amount of the Class A-2
Certificates. On June 15, 2001, the Trustee will pay to the Depositor the amount
of interest accrued on the Underlying Securities from December 15, 2000 to but
not including the Closing Date.
(d) The Depositor may sell to the Trustee additional
Underlying Securities on any date hereafter upon at least 3 Business Days notice
to the Trustee and upon (i) satisfaction of the Rating Agency Condition and (ii)
delivery of an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the sale of such additional
Underlying Securities will not materially increase the likelihood that the Trust
would fail to qualify as a grantor trust under the Code. Upon such sale to the
Trustee, the Trustee shall deposit such additional Underlying Securities in the
Certificate Account, and shall authenticate and deliver to the Depositor, or its
order, Certificates in a Certificate Principal Amount, and Class A-2 Class A-1
Certificates in a notional principal amount, equal to the principal amount of
such additional Underlying Securities. Any such additional Certificates
authenticated and delivered shall have the same terms and rank pari passu with
the corresponding classes of Certificates previously issued in accordance with
this Series Supplement.
Section 4. Trust Certificates. The Trustee hereby acknowledges
receipt, on or prior to the Closing Date, of:
(i) the Underlying Securities set forth on the Underlying
Securities Schedule; and
(ii) all documents required to be delivered to the Trustee
pursuant to Section 2.01 of the Standard Terms.
Section 5. Distributions. (a) On each applicable Distribution
Date, the Trustee shall apply Available Funds in the Certificate Account as
follows in the following order of priority:
(i) the Trustee will pay the interest portion of
Available Funds:
(a) first, to the Trustee, as reimbursement for any
Extraordinary Trust Expenses incurred by the Trustee
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in accordance with Section 6(b) below and approved by
100% of the Certificateholders; and
(b) second, to the holders of the Class A-1
Certificates and the holders of the Class A-2
Certificates, interest accrued and unpaid on each
such Class pro rata in proportion to their
entitlements thereto; and
(c) third, any remainder to the Depositor.
(ii) the Trustee will pay the principal portion of
Available Funds:
(a) first, to the Trustee, as reimbursement for any
remaining Extraordinary Trust Expenses incurred by
the Trustee in accordance with Section 6(b) below and
approved by 100% of the Certificateholders; and
(b) second, to the holders of the Class A-1
Certificates the Certificate Principal Amount.
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that the
Underlying Securities are redeemed or prepaid in whole or in part for any reason
other than at their maturity (for instance, if the Underlying Securities are
paid early in connection with a liquidation of the Underlying Securities Issuer
or in connection with certain adverse tax events), Available Funds will be
allocated in the following order of priority: (1) to the holders of the Class
A-1 Certificates, an amount equal to the outstanding principal amount thereof
plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, (2) to the holders of the Class A-2
Certificates, the present value of all amounts that would otherwise have been
payable on the Class A-2 Certificates for the period from the date of such
redemption or prepayment to the Final Scheduled Distribution Date using a
discount rate of 8.10% per annum, assuming no delinquencies, deferrals,
redemptions or prepayments on the Underlying Securities and (3) any remainder
shall be allocated to the holders of the Class A-1 Certificates and the Class
A-2 Certificates pro rata in proportion to the ratio of 7.375 to 0.725; provided
however that the Trustee shall be reimbursed for any Extraordinary Expenses
incurred by the Trustee in accordance with Section 6(b) below and approved by
100% of the Certificateholders prior to any distributions made pursuant to this
Section.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, in the event
of the occurrence of (i) a payment default on the Underlying Securities or (ii)
an acceleration of the date of maturity of the Underlying Securities in
connection with a default thereon, the Trustee shall proceed against the
Underlying Securities Issuer on behalf of the Certificateholders to enforce the
Underlying Securities or otherwise to protect the interests of the
Certificateholders, provided that, holders of the Certificates representing a
majority of the Voting Rights on the Certificates will be entitled to direct the
Trustee in any such proceeding or direct the Trustee to sell the Underlying
Securities. If the Trustee is directed to sell the Underlying Securities, the
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Trustee shall solicit bids for the sale of the Underlying Securities with
settlement thereof on or before the third (3rd) Business Day after such sale
from three leading dealers in the relevant market. Any of the following dealers
(or their successors) shall be deemed to qualify as leading dealers: (1) Credit
Suisse First Boston Corporation, (2) Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx & Co., (3) Xxxxxx Brothers
Inc., (4) Xxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated, (5) UBS Securities
LLC and (6) Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx Inc. The Trustee shall not be responsible for
the failure to obtain a bid so long as it has made reasonable efforts to obtain
bids. If a bid for the sale of the Underlying Securities has been accepted by
the Trustee but the sale has failed to settle on the proposed settlement date,
the Trustee shall request new bids from such leading dealers. In the event of
such sale or of an acceleration and a corresponding payment on the Underlying
Securities, the Trustee shall distribute the proceeds to the Certificateholders
no later than two Business Days after the receipt of immediately available funds
in accordance with Section 5(b) hereof.
(d) In the event that the Trustee receives non-cash property
in respect of the Underlying Securities as a result of a payment default on the
Underlying Securities (including from the sale thereof), the Trustee will
promptly give notice to the Depositary, or for any Certificates which are not
then held by DTC or any other depository, directly to the registered holders of
the Certificates then outstanding and unpaid. Such notice shall state that, not
later than 30 days after the receipt of such moneys or other property, the
Trustee will allocate and distribute such property to the holders of Class A-1
Certificates and Class A-2 Certificates then outstanding and unpaid, (after
deducting the costs incurred in connection therewith) in accordance with Section
5(b) hereof. Property other than cash will be liquidated by the Trustee, and the
proceeds thereof distributed in cash, only to the extent necessary to avoid
distribution of fractional securities to Certificateholders. In-kind
distribution of such property to Certificateholders will be deemed to reduce the
principal amount of Certificates on a dollar-for-dollar basis.
(c) Subject to Section 9(f) hereof, to the extent Available
Funds are insufficient to make any required distributions due to any Class of
Certificates on any Distribution Date, any shortfall will be carried over and
will be distributed on the next Distribution Date (or date referred to in
Section 5(f) hereof) on which sufficient funds are available on the Available
Funds to pay such shortfall.
(f) If a payment with respect to the Underlying Securities is
made to the Trustee after the payment date of the Underlying Securities on which
such payment was due, then the Trustee will distribute any such amounts received
on the next occurring Business Day (a "Special Distribution Date") as if the
funds had constituted Available Funds on the Distribution Date immediately
preceding such Special Distribution Date; provided, however, that the Record
Date for such Special Distribution Date shall be five Business Days prior to the
day on which the related payment was received from the Underlying Securities
Trustee.
Section 6. Trustee's Fees. 1. As compensation for its services
hereunder, the Trustee shall be entitled to the Trustee Fee. The Trustee Fee
shall be paid by the Depositor and not from Trust Property. The Trustee shall
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bear all Ordinary Expenses. Failure by the Depositor to pay such amount shall
not entitle the Trustee to any payment or reimbursement from the Trust, nor
shall such failure release the Trustee from the duties it is required to perform
under the Trust Agreement.
(b) Extraordinary Expenses shall not be paid out of the Trust
Property unless all the Certificateholders of each of Class A-1 and Class A-2
Certificates then outstanding have voted to require the Trustee to incur such
Extraordinary Expenses. The Trustee may incur other Extraordinary Expenses if
any lesser percentage of the Certificateholders requesting such action pursuant
hereto reimburse the Trustee for the cost thereof from their own funds in
advance. If Extraordinary Expenses are not approved unanimously as set forth in
the first sentence of this Section 6(b), such Extraordinary Expenses shall not
be an obligation of the Trust, and the Trustee shall not file any claim against
the Trust therefor notwithstanding failure of certificateholders to reimburse
the Trustee.
Section 7. Optional Exchange; Optional Redemption.
(a) (i) On each Distribution Date (or, if the Depositor or an
Affiliate of the Depositor holds all of the Certificates, on any other date) any
Affiliate of the Depositor, if it is then the holder of Class A-2 Certificates
of a certain notional principal amount and Class A-1 Certificates representing a
like principal amount thereof, may tender such Certificates to the Trustee on
such date and receive a distribution of Underlying Securities representing a
like percentage of the Underlying Securities to the percentages of the Class A-1
Certificates and Class A-2 Certificates being tendered by the Depositor or
Affiliate to the Trustee; provided, however, that any right to exchange shall be
exercisable only (a) to the extent that the Depositor provides upon the
Trustee's request an opinion of counsel that such exchange would not affect the
characterization of the Trust as a "grantor trust" for federal income tax
purposes and (b) to the extent permitted under Section 7(a)(iv) hereof.
(ii) Any such Affiliate of the Depositor must provide notice
to the Trustee (an "Exchange Request") no less than 15 days (or such shorter
period acceptable to the Trustee) but not more than 30 days prior to an Optional
Exchange Date that it requests an Optional Exchange of Certificates on such
Optional Exchange Date.
(iii) The Trustee shall not be obligated to determine whether
an Optional Exchange complies with the applicable provisions for exemption under
Rule 3a-7 of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, or the rules or
regulations promulgated thereunder.
(iv) Any such Optional Exchange by any Affiliate of the
Depositor, will be subject to the following restrictions: (a) certification to
the Trustee that any Certificates to be exchanged have been held for a minimum
of six months and (b) each Optional Exchange is limited in amount to a maximum
of 5% (except for Certificates acquired by the Underwriter but never distributed
to investors, in which case 25%) of the then outstanding notional principal
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amount of the Class A-2 Certificates, provided, however, that such restrictions
shall not apply to the exchange of Certificates that were acquired pursuant to
Section 7(b).
(v) The provisions of Section 4.07 of the Standard Terms shall
not apply to an Optional Exchange pursuant to this Section. This Section 7 shall
not provide the Depositor with a lien against, an interest in or a right to
specific performance with respect to the Underlying Securities.
(b) (i) On any Call Date, the Certificates may be redeemed at
the Call Price, in whole or in part, by the Rights Holder, or an affiliate
thereof, upon receipt of the Call Price in respect of a proportionate amount of
Underlying Securities on or prior to such Call Date. In a partial redemption,
Class A-1 Certificates and Class A-2 Certificates may be redeemed only in like
proportions.
(ii) The Rights Holder may provide notice to the Trustee (a
"Call Request") no less than 5 Business Days prior to any Call Date, that it is
exercising its Call Rights with respect to the Certificates on such Call Date.
(iii) Upon receipt of a Call Request, the Trustee shall
provide a conditional redemption notice to the Depository not less than 3
Business Days prior to the applicable Call Date.
(iv) As a condition to any Optional Redemption, an opinion of
counsel to the Rights Holder shall be delivered to the Rating Agencies, in form
satisfactory to the Rating Agencies, indicating that payment of the Call Price
shall not be recoverable as a preferential transfer or fraudulent conveyance
under the United States Bankruptcy Code. Such opinion may contain customary
assumptions and qualifications. In addition, the Rights Holder shall provide a
certificate of solvency to the Trustee.
(v) Deliveries of the Underlying Securities to the Rights
Holder (the "Purchaser") will only be made against payment by the Purchaser of
the Call Price in immediately available funds. Such payment must occur no later
than 10:00 a.m. New York City time on the Call Date. In the event that the
Purchaser fails to make such payment by such time (a "Purchase Default"), the
sale shall be voided and the Optional Call will be deemed not to be effective
with respect to such Distribution Date, and the Certificates and the Call Rights
shall continue to remain outstanding. Subject to receipt of the Call Price as
aforesaid, the Trustee shall pay the Call Price to the Certificateholders on the
Call Date.
(vi) The Trustee shall not consent to any amendment or
modification of this Agreement (including the Standard Terms) which would alter
the timing or amount of any payment of the Call Price without the prior written
consent of the Rights Holder.
(vii) The Trustee shall not be obligated to determine whether
an Optional Call complies with the applicable provisions for exemption under
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Rule 3a-7 of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, or the rules or
regulations promulgated thereunder.
(viii) This Section 7 shall not provide the Rights Holder with
a lien against, an interest in or a right to specific performance with respect
to the Underlying Securities.
(ix) The Rights Holder shall initially be the Depositor and
such Call Rights may be transferred. However, the Trustee is under no obligation
to recognize any notice of transfer unless it is signed by the transferor and
the transferee.
Section 8. Events of Default.
Within 30 days of the occurrence of an Event of Default in
respect of the Certificates, the Trustee will give notice to the
Certificateholders, transmitted by mail, of all such uncured or unwaived Events
of Default known to it. However, except in the case of an Event of Default
relating to the payment of principal of or interest on any of the Underlying
Securities, the Trustee will be protected in withholding such notice if in good
faith it determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interest of
the Certificateholders.
Section 9. Miscellaneous.
(a) The provisions of Section 4.04, Advances, of the Standard
Terms shall not apply to the Series
2001-8 Certificates.
(b) The provisions of Section 4.07, Optional Exchange, of the
Standard Terms shall not apply to the Series 2001-8 Certificates.
(c) The Trustee shall simultaneously forward reports to
Certificateholders pursuant to Section 4.03 of the Standard Terms and to the New
York Stock Exchange.
(d) Except as expressly provided herein, the
Certificateholders shall not be entitled to terminate the Trust or cause the
sale or other disposition of the Underlying Securities.
(e) The provisions of Section 3.07(d) of the Standard Terms
shall not apply to the Series 2001-8 Certificates.
(f) If the Trustee has not received payment with respect to a
Collection Period on the Underlying Securities on or prior to the related
Distribution Date, such distribution will be made promptly upon receipt of such
payment. No additional amounts shall accrue on the Certificates or be owed to
Certificateholders as a result of such delay; provided, however, that any
additional interest owed and paid by the Underlying Securities Issuer as a
result of such delay shall be paid to the Certificateholders, pro rata in
proportion to their respective entitlements to interest.
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(g) The outstanding principal balance of the Certificates
shall not be reduced by the amount of any Realized Losses (as defined in the
Standard Terms).
(h) The Trust may not engage in any business or activities
other than in connection with, or relating to, the holding, protecting and
preserving of the Trust Property and the issuance of the Certificates, and other
than those required or authorized by the Trust Agreement or incidental and
necessary to accomplish such activities. The Trust may not issue or sell any
certificates or other obligations other than the Certificates or otherwise
incur, assume or guarantee any indebtedness for money borrowed.
(i) Notwithstanding anything in the Trust Agreement to the
contrary, the Trustee may be removed upon 60 days prior written notice delivered
by the holders of Class A-1 and Class A-2 Certificates representing the Required
Percentage-Removal.
(j) In the event that the Internal Revenue Service challenges
the characterization of the Trust as a grantor trust, the Trustee shall then
file such forms as the Depositor may specify to establish the Trust's election
pursuant to Section 761 of the Code to exclude the Trust from the application of
Subchapter K of the Code and is hereby empowered to execute such forms on behalf
of the Certificateholders.
(k) Notwithstanding anything in the Standard Terms to the
contrary, the Trustee, upon written direction by the Depositor, will execute the
Certificates.
(l) In relation to Section 7.01(f) of the Standard Terms, any
periodic reports filed by the Trustee pursuant to the Securities and Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder,
in accordance with the customary practices of the Depositor, need not contain
any independent reports.
(m) Notwithstanding anything in the Trust Agreement to the
contrary, the Trustee will have no recourse to the Underlying Securities.
(n) The Trust will not merge or consolidate with any other
entity without confirmation from each Rating Agency that such merger or
consolidation will not result in the qualification, reduction or withdrawal of
its then-current rating on the Certificates.
(o) Notices. All directions, demands and notices hereunder or
under the Standard Terms shall be in writing and shall be delivered as set forth
below (unless written notice is otherwise provided to the Trustee).
If to the Depositor, to:
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Xxxxxx ABS Corporation
3 World Financial Center
New York, New York 10285
Attention: Structured Credit Trading
Telephone: (000) 000-0000
Facsimile: (000) 000-0000
If to the Trustee, to:
U.S. Bank Trust National Association
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Corporate Trust
Telephone: (000) 000-0000
Facsimile: (000) 000-0000
If to the Rating Agencies, to:
Xxxxx'x Investors Service, Inc.
00 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx 00X
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: CBO/CLO Monitoring Department
Telephone: (000) 000-0000
Facsimile: (000) 000-0000
and to:
Standard & Poor's
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Structured Finance Surveillance Group
Telephone: (000) 000-0000
Facsimile: (000) 000-0000
If to the New York Stock Exchange, to:
New York Stock Exchange, Inc.
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Telephone: (000) 000-0000
Facsimile: (000) 000-0000
Section 10. Governing Law. THIS SERIES SUPPLEMENT AND THE
TRANSACTIONS DESCRIBED HEREIN SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE
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WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPLICABLE TO CONTRACTS MADE AND
PERFORMED WITHIN THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO THE CHOICE OF
LAWS PROVISIONS THEREOF.
Section 11. Counterparts. This Series Supplement may be
executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an
original, and all such counterparts shall constitute but one and the same
instrument.
Section 12. Termination of the Trust. The Trust shall
terminate upon the earliest to occur of (i) the payment in full at maturity or
sale by the Trust after a payment default on or an acceleration or other early
payment of the Underlying Securities and the distribution in full of all amounts
due to the Class A-1 and Class A-2 Certificateholders; (ii) the Final Scheduled
Distribution Date and (iii) the expiration of 21 years from the death of the
last survivor of the descendants of Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, the late Ambassador of
the United States to the Court of St. Xxxxx, living on the date hereof.
Section 13. Sale of Underlying Securities. In the event of a
sale of the Underlying Securities pursuant to Section 5(d) hereof, the
Liquidation Proceeds, if any, shall be deposited into the Certificate Account
for distribution to the Class A-1 and Class A-2 Certificateholders. The Trustee
shall only deliver the Underlying Securities to the purchaser of such Underlying
Securities against payment in same day funds deposited into the Certificate
Account.
Section 14. Amendments. Notwithstanding anything in the Trust
Agreement to the contrary, in addition to the other restrictions on modification
and amendment contained therein, the Trustee shall not enter into any amendment
or modification of the Trust Agreement which would adversely affect in any
material respect the interests of the holders of any class of Certificates
without the consent of the holders of 100% of such class of Certificates;
provided, however, that no such amendment or modification will be permitted
which would alter the status of the Trust as a grantor trust for federal income
tax purposes. Further, no amendment shall be permitted which would adversely
affect in any material respect the interests of any Class of Certificateholders
without confirmation by each Rating Agency that such amendment will not result
in a downgrading or withdrawal of its rating of such Certificates.
Section 15. Voting of Underlying Securities, Modification of
Indenture. The Trustee, as holder of the Underlying Securities, has the right to
vote and give consents and waivers in respect of the Underlying Securities as
permitted by the Depository and except as otherwise limited by the Trust
Agreement. In the event that the Trustee receives a request from the Depository,
the Underlying Securities Trustee or the Underlying Securities Issuer for its
consent to any amendment, modification or waiver of the Underlying Securities,
the Indenture or any other document thereunder or relating thereto, or receives
any other solicitation for any action with respect to the Underlying Securities,
the Trustee shall mail a notice of such proposed amendment, modification, waiver
or solicitation to each Certificateholder of record as of such date. The Trustee
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shall request instructions from the Certificateholders as to whether or not to
consent to or vote to accept such amendment, modification, waiver or
solicitation. The Trustee shall consent or vote, or refrain from consenting or
voting, in the same proportion (based on the relative outstanding principal
balances of the Certificates) as the Class A-1 Certificates of the Trust were
actually voted or not voted by the Certificateholders thereof as of a date
determined by the Trustee prior to the date on which such consent or vote is
required, after weighing the votes of the Class A-1 Certificateholders;
provided, however, that, notwithstanding anything in the Trust Agreement to the
contrary, the Trustee shall at no time vote on or consent to any matter (i)
unless such vote or consent would not (based on an opinion of counsel) alter the
status of the Trust as a grantor trust for federal income tax purposes or result
in the imposition of tax upon the Certificateholders, (ii) which would alter the
timing or amount of any payment on the Underlying Securities, including, without
limitation, any demand to accelerate the Underlying Securities, except in the
event of a default under the Underlying Securities or an event which with the
passage of time would become an event of default under the Underlying Securities
and with the unanimous consent of all outstanding Class A-1 Certificateholders
and the Class A-2 Certificateholders, or (iii) which would result in the
exchange or substitution of any of the outstanding Underlying Securities
pursuant to a plan for the refunding or refinancing of such Underlying
Securities except in the event of a default under the Indenture and only with
the consent of Certificateholders representing 100% of the Class A-2
Certificates and 100% of the Class A-1 Certificates. The Trustee shall have no
liability for any failure to act resulting from Certificateholders' late return
of, or failure to return, directions requested by the Trustee from the
Certificateholders.
In the event that an offer is made by the Underlying
Securities Issuer to issue new obligations in exchange and substitution for any
of the Underlying Securities, pursuant to a plan for the refunding or
refinancing of the outstanding Underlying Securities or any other offer is made
for the Underlying Securities, the Trustee shall notify the Class A-1 and Class
A-2 Certificateholders of such offer promptly. The Trustee must reject any such
offer unless the Trustee is directed by the affirmative vote of the holders of
100% of the Class A-1 and Class A-2 Certificates to accept such offer and the
Trustee has received the tax opinion described above.
If an event of default under the Indenture occurs and is
continuing, and if directed by a majority of the outstanding Class A-1 and Class
A-2 Certificateholders, the Trustee shall vote the Underlying Securities in
favor of directing, or take such other action as may be appropriate to direct,
the Underlying Securities Trustee to declare the unpaid principal amount of the
Underlying Securities and any accrued and unpaid interest thereon to be due and
payable.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Series
Supplement to be duly executed by their respective authorized officers as of the
date first written above.
XXXXXX ABS CORPORATION,
as Depositor
By:
-----------------------------------------
Name:
Title:
U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
not in its individual capacity
but solely as Trustee on behalf
of the Corporate Backed Trust
Certificates Series, 2001-8
Trust
By:
-----------------------------------------
Name:
Title:
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SCHEDULE I
SERIES 2001-8
UNDERLYING SECURITIES SCHEDULE
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Underlying Securities: 8.10% Debentures due 2024.
Underlying Securities Issuer: General Motors Corporation.
CUSIP Number: 000000XX0.
Principal Amount Deposited: $32,575,000.
Original Issue Date: June 10, 1996.
Principal Amount of
Underlying Securities
Originally Issued: $400,000,000.
Maturity Date: June 15, 2024.
Principal Payment Date: June 15, 2024.
Interest Rate: 8.10% per annum.
Interest Payment Dates: June 15th and December 15th.
Underlying Securities Record Dates: The day immediately preceding each
Distribution Date.
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SCHEDULE II
CALL SCHEDULE
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Distribution Date Value
6/15/01 Non-Callable
12/15/01 Non-Callable
6/15/02 Non-Callable
12/15/02 Non-Callable
6/15/03 Non-Callable
12/15/03 Non-Callable
6/15/04 Non-Callable
12/15/04 Non-Callable
6/15/05 Non-Callable
12/15/05 Non-Callable
3/14/06 $1,973,335
6/15/06 $1,953,918
12/15/06 $1,933,530
6/15/07 $1,912,122
12/15/07 $1,889,645
6/15/08 $1,866,043
12/15/08 $1,841,261
6/15/09 $1,815,240
12/15/09 $1,787,918
6/15/10 $1,759,230
12/15/10 $1,729,107
6/15/11 $1,697,478
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12/15/11 $1,664,268
6/15/12 $1,629,397
12/15/12 $1,592,783
6/15/13 $1,554,338
12/15/13 $1,513,971
6/15/14 $1,471,586
12/15/14 $1,427,081
6/15/15 $1,380,351
12/15/15 $1,331,285
6/15/16 $1,279,765
12/15/16 $1,225,669
6/15/17 $1,168,868
12/15/17 $1,109,228
6/15/18 $1,046,605
12/15/18 $980,851
6/15/19 $911,810
12/15/19 $839,316
6/15/20 $763,198
12/15/20 $683,274
6/15/21 $599,353
12/15/21 $511,237
6/15/22 $418,715
12/15/22 $321,567
6/15/23 $219,561
12/15/23 $112,455
6/15/24 -
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Exhibit A-1
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Form of Trust Certificate Class A-1
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NUMBER [_] [1,303,000] $[25] PAR
CERTIFICATES
CUSIP NO. [_______]
SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS
UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"),
TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT,
AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH
OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY
PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR
VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED
OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
THIS CERTIFICATE REPRESENTS A PROPORTIONATE UNDIVIDED
BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP INTEREST IN THE TRUST AND DOES NOT EVIDENCE AN OBLIGATION
OF, OR AN INTEREST IN, AND IS NOT GUARANTEED BY THE DEPOSITOR OR THE TRUSTEE OR
ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE AFFILIATES. NEITHER THIS CERTIFICATE OR THE TRUST ASSETS
ARE INSURED OR GUARANTEED BY ANY GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY OR ANY OTHER PERSON.
XXXXXX ABS CORPORATION
[1,303,000] $[25] PAR
CORPORATE BACKED TRUST CERTIFICATES,
SERIES 2001-8
7.375% INTEREST RATE
evidencing a proportionate undivided beneficial ownership interest in the Trust,
as defined below, the property of which consists principally of $[_______]
aggregate principal amount of 8.10% Debentures due June 15, 2024, issued by
General Motors Corporation (the "Underlying Security Issuer") and all payments
received thereon (the "Trust Property"), deposited in trust by Xxxxxx ABS
Corporation (the "Depositor").
THIS CERTIFIES THAT [_______] is the registered owner of
$[_______] DOLLARS nonassessable, fully-paid, proportionate undivided beneficial
ownership interest in the Corporate Backed Trust Certificates, Series 2001-8
Trust, formed by the Depositor.
The Trust was created pursuant to a Standard Terms for Trust
Agreements, dated as of January 16, 2001 (the "Standard Terms"), between the
Depositor and U.S. Bank Trust National Association, a national banking
association, not in its individual capacity but solely as Trustee (the
"Trustee"), as supplemented by the Series Supplement, Series 2001-8, dated as of
March 8, 2001 (the "Series Supplement" and, together with the Standard Terms,
the "Trust Agreement"), between the Depositor and the Trustee. This Certificate
does not purport to summarize the Trust Agreement and reference is hereby made
to the Trust Agreement for information with respect to the interests, rights,
benefits, obligations, proceeds and duties evidenced hereby and the rights,
duties and obligations of the Trustee with respect hereto. A copy of the Trust
Agreement may be obtained from the Trustee by written request sent to the
Corporate Trust Office. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the
meanings assigned to them in the Trust Agreement.
This Certificate is one of the duly authorized Certificates
designated as the "Corporate Backed Trust Certificates, Series 2001-8, Class
A-1" (herein called the "Certificates"). This Certificate is issued under and is
subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Trust Agreement, to which
Trust Agreement the Holder of this Certificate by virtue of the acceptance
hereof assents and by which such Holder is bound. The Trust Property consists
of: (i) Underlying Securities described in the Trust Agreement; (ii) all
payments on or collections in respect of the Underlying Securities accrued on or
after March 8, 2001 together with any proceeds thereof; and (iii) all funds from
time to time deposited with the Trustee relating to the Certificates, together
with any and all income, proceeds and payments with respect thereto; provided,
however, that any income from the investment of Trust funds in certain permitted
investments ("Eligible Investments") does not constitute Trust Property.
Subject to the terms and conditions of the Trust Agreement
(including the availability of funds for distributions) and until the obligation
created by the Trust Agreement shall have terminated in accordance therewith,
distributions will be made on each Distribution Date, to the Person in whose
name this Certificate is registered on the applicable Record Date, in an amount
equal to such Certificateholder's proportionate undivided beneficial ownership
interest in the amount required to be distributed to the Holders of the
Certificates on such Distribution Date. The Record Date applicable to any
Distribution Date is the close of business on the day immediately preceding such
Distribution Date (whether or not a Business Day). If a payment with respect to
the Underlying Securities is made to the Trustee after the date on which such
payment was due, then the Trustee will distribute any such amounts received on
the next occurring Business Day (a "Special Distribution Date").
Each Certificateholder, by its acceptance of a Certificate,
covenants and agrees that such Certificateholder will not at any time institute
against the Trust, or join in any institution against the Trust of, any
bankruptcy proceedings under any United States Federal or state bankruptcy or
similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Certificates or
the Trust Agreement.
Distributions made on this Certificate will be made as
provided in the Trust Agreement by the Trustee by wire transfer in immediately
available funds, or check mailed to the Certificateholder of record in the
Certificate Register without the presentation or surrender of this Certificate
or the making of any notation hereon, except that with respect to Certificates
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registered on the Record Date in the name of the nominee of the Clearing Agency
(initially, such nominee shall be Cede & Co.), payments will be made by wire
transfer in immediately available funds to the account designated by such
nominee. Except as otherwise provided in the Trust Agreement and notwithstanding
the above, the final distribution on this Certificate will be made after due
notice by the Trustee of the pendency of such distribution and only upon
presentation and surrender of this Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office or
such other location as may be specified in such notice.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this
Certificate set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for
all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been
executed by or on behalf of the Trustee, by manual signature, this Certificate
shall not entitle the Holder hereof to any benefit under the Trust Agreement or
be valid for any purpose.
THIS CERTIFICATE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW
PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE HOLDER HEREOF SHALL
BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trustee has caused this Certificate to
be duly executed as of the date set forth below.
CORPORATE BACKED TRUST CERTIFICATES,
SERIES 2001-8 TRUST
By: U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
not in its individual capacity but solely as
Trustee,
By:
---------------------------------------------
Authorized Signatory
Dated: [_______]
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is on one of the Corporate Backed Trust Certificates,
Series 2001-8, described in the Trust Agreement referred to herein.
U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
not in its individual capacity but solely as
Trustee,
By:
---------------------------------
Authorized Signatory
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(REVERSE OF CERTIFICATE)
The Certificates are limited in right of distribution to
certain payments and collections respecting the Underlying Securities, all as
more specifically set forth herein and in the Trust Agreement. The registered
Holder hereof, by its acceptance hereof, agrees that it will look solely to the
Trust Property (to the extent of its rights therein) for distributions
hereunder.
The Trust Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Depositor and the Trustee and the rights of the
Certificateholders under the Trust Agreement at any time by the Depositor and
the Trustee with the consent of the holders of Class A-1 Certificates in the
manner set forth in the Series Supplement and the Standard Terms. Any such
consent by the Holder of this Certificate (or any predecessor Certificate) shall
be conclusive and binding on such Holder and upon all future Holders of this
Certificate and of any Certificate issued upon the transfer hereof or in
exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent in
made upon this Certificate. The Trust Agreement also permits the amendment
thereof, in certain limited circumstances, without the consent of the Holders of
any of the Certificates.
The Certificates are issuable in fully registered form only in
denominations of $25.
As provided in the Trust Agreement and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Certificate is registerable
in the Certificate Register upon surrender of this Certificate for registration
of transfer at the offices or agencies of the Certificate Registrar maintained
by the Trustee in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York, duly endorsed
by or accompanied by an assignment in the form below and by such other documents
as required by the Trust Agreement, and thereupon one or more new Certificates
of the same class in authorized denominations evidencing the same principal
amount will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. The initial
Certificate Registrar appointed under the Trust Agreement is U.S. Bank Trust
National Association.
No service charge will be made for any registration of
transfer or exchange, but the Trustee may require exchange of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection
with any transfer or exchange of Certificates.
The Depositor and the Trustee and any agent of the Depositor
or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Certificate is registered
as the owner hereof for all purposes, and neither the Depositor, the Trustee,
nor any such agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.
It is the intention of the parties to the Trust Agreement that
the Trust created thereunder shall constitute a fixed investment trust for
federal income tax purposes under Treasury Regulation Section 301.7701-4, and
the Certificateholder agrees to treat the Trust, any distributions therefrom and
its beneficial interest in the Certificates consistently with such
characterization.
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The Trust and the obligations of the Depositor and the Trustee
created by the Trust Agreement with respect to the Certificates shall terminate
upon the earliest to occur of (i) the distribution in full of all amounts due to
Certificateholders and retirement of the Underlying Securities; (ii) a call of
all Certificates in connection with an Optional Call, and (iii) the expiration
of 21 years from the death of the last survivor of the descendants of Xxxxxx X.
Xxxxxxx, the late Ambassador of the United States to the Court of St. Xxxxx,
living on the date hereof.
An employee benefit plan subject to the Employee Retirement
Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA"), a plan described in Section
4975(e) of the Code, an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by
reason of any such plan's investment in the entity, including an individual
retirement account or Xxxxx plan (any such, a "Plan") may purchase and hold
Certificates if the Plan can represent and warrant that its purchase and holding
of the Certificates would not be prohibited under ERISA or the Code.
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ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and
transfers unto
PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY
OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER
OF ASSIGNEE
(Please print or type name and address, including postal zip code, of assignee)
the within Certificate, and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably
constituting and appointing ________________ _____ Attorney to transfer said
Certificate on the books of the Certificate Register, with full power of
substitution in the premises.
Dated:
*
Signature Guaranteed:
*
*NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as it
appears upon the face of the within Certificate in every particular, without
alteration, enlargement or any change whatever. Signatures must be guaranteed by
an "eligible guarantor institution" meeting the requirements of the Certificate
Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the
Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program ("STAMP") or such other "signature
guarantee program" as may be determined by the Certificate Registrar in addition
to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
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Class A-2 Certificate
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NUMBER 1 CUSIP NO. 00000XXX0
SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS
THE NOTIONAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS CLASS A-2 CERTIFICATE IS
PAYABLE AS SET FORTH HEREIN. ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING NOTIONAL PRINCIPAL
AMOUNT OF THIS CLASS A-2 CERTIFICATE AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT
SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.
TRANSFERS OF THE CLASS A-2 CERTIFICATES MUST GENERALLY BE
ACCOMPANIED BY APPROPRIATE TAX TRANSFER DOCUMENTATION AND ARE SUBJECT TO
RESTRICTIONS AS PROVIDED IN THE SERIES SUPPLEMENT.
UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"),
TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT,
AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH
OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY
PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR
VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED
OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
THIS CERTIFICATE REPRESENTS A PROPORTIONATE UNDIVIDED
BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP INTEREST IN THE TRUST AND DOES NOT EVIDENCE AN OBLIGATION
OF, OR AN INTEREST IN, AND IS NOT GUARANTEED BY THE DEPOSITOR OR THE TRUSTEE OR
ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE AFFILIATES. NEITHER THIS CERTIFICATE OR THE TRUST ASSETS
ARE INSURED OR GUARANTEED BY ANY GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY OR ANY OTHER PERSON.
XXXXXX ABS CORPORATION
CORPORATE BACKED TRUST CERTIFICATES,
SERIES 2001-8
$[_______] NOTIONAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT
evidencing a proportionate undivided beneficial ownership interest in the Trust,
as defined below, the property of which consists principally of 8.10% Debentures
due June 15, 2024, issued by General Motors Corporation (the "Underlying
Security Issuer") and all payments received thereon (the "Trust Property"),
deposited in trust by Xxxxxx ABS Corporation (the "Depositor").
THIS CERTIFIES THAT [_______] is the registered owner of an
aggregate principal amount of $[_______] notional principal amount nonassessable
fully-paid, proportionate undivided beneficial ownership interest in the
Corporate Backed Trust Certificates, Series 2001-8 Trust, formed by the
Depositor.
The Trust was created pursuant to a Standard Terms for Trust
Agreements, dated as of January 16, 2001 (the "Standard Terms"), between the
Depositor and U.S. Bank Trust National Association, a national banking
association, not in its individual capacity but solely as Trustee (the
"Trustee"), as supplemented by the Series Supplement, Series 2001-8, dated as of
March 8, 2001 (the "Series Supplement" and, together with the Standard Terms,
the "Trust Agreement"), between the Depositor and the Trustee. This Certificate
does not purport to summarize the Trust Agreement and reference is hereby made
to the Trust Agreement for information with respect to the interests, rights,
benefits, obligations, proceeds and duties evidenced hereby and the rights,
duties and obligations of the Trustee with respect hereto. A copy of the Trust
Agreement may be obtained from the Trustee by written request sent to the
Corporate Trust Office. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the
meanings assigned to them in the Trust Agreement.
This Certificate is one of the duly authorized Certificates
designated as the "Corporate Backed Trust Certificates, Series 2001-8, Class
A-2" (herein called the "Certificates"). This Certificate is issued under and is
subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Trust Agreement, to which
Trust Agreement the Holder of this Certificate by virtue of the acceptance
hereof assents and by which such Holder is bound. The Trust Property consists
of: (i) Underlying Securities described in the Trust Agreement; (ii) all
payments on or collections in respect of the Underlying Securities accrued on or
after March 8, 2001 together with any proceeds thereof; and (iii) all funds from
time to time deposited with the Trustee relating to the Certificates, together
with any and all income, proceeds and payments with respect thereto; provided,
however, that any income from the investment of Trust funds in certain permitted
investments ("Eligible Investments") does not constitute Trust Property.
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Subject to the terms and conditions of the Trust Agreement
(including the availability of funds for distributions) and until the obligation
created by the Trust Agreement shall have terminated in accordance therewith,
distributions of interest will be made on this Certificate on each Distribution
Date.
Subject to the terms and conditions of the Trust Agreement
(including the availability of funds for distributions) and until the obligation
created by the Trust Agreement shall have terminated in accordance therewith,
distributions will be made on each Distribution Date, to the Person in whose
name this Certificate is registered on the applicable Record Date, in an amount
equal to such Certificateholder's proportionate undivided beneficial ownership
interest in the amount required to be distributed to the Holders of the
Certificates on such Distribution Date. The Record Date applicable to any
Distribution Date is the close of business on the day immediately preceding such
Distribution Date (whether or not a Business Day). If a payment with respect to
the Underlying Securities is made to the Trustee after the date on which such
payment was due, then the Trustee will distribute any such amounts received on
the next occurring Business Day (a "Special Distribution Date").
Each Certificateholder, by its acceptance of a Certificate,
covenants and agrees that such Certificateholder will not at any time institute
against the Trust, or join in any institution against the Trust of, any
bankruptcy proceedings under any United States Federal or state bankruptcy or
similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Certificates or
the Trust Agreement.
Distributions made on this Certificate will be made as
provided in the Trust Agreement by the Trustee by wire transfer in immediately
available funds, or check mailed to the Certificateholder of record in the
Certificate Register without the presentation or surrender of this Certificate
or the making of any notation hereon, except that with respect to Certificates
registered on the Record Date in the name of the nominee of the Clearing Agency
(initially, such nominee shall be Cede & Co.), payments will be made by wire
transfer in immediately available funds to the account designated by such
nominee. Except as otherwise provided in the Trust Agreement and notwithstanding
the above, the final distribution on this Certificate will be made after due
notice by the Trustee of the pendency of such distribution and only upon
presentation and surrender of this Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office or
such other location as may be specified in such notice.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this
Certificate set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for
all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been
executed by or on behalf of the Trustee, by manual signature, this Certificate
shall not entitle the Holder hereof to any benefit under the Trust Agreement or
be valid for any purpose.
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THIS CERTIFICATE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW
PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE HOLDER HEREOF SHALL
BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trustee has caused this Certificate to
be duly executed as of the date set forth below.
CORPORATE BACKED TRUST
CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2001-8 TRUST
By: U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
not in its individual capacity but solely as
Trustee,
By:
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Authorized Signatory
Dated: [_______]
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is on one of the Corporate Backed Trust Certificates,
Series 2001-8, described in the Trust Agreement referred to herein.
U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
not in its individual capacity but solely as
Trustee,
By:
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Authorized Signatory
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(REVERSE OF CERTIFICATE)
The Certificates are limited in right of distribution to
certain payments and collections respecting the Underlying Securities, all as
more specifically set forth herein and in the Trust Agreement. The registered
Holder hereof, by its acceptance hereof, agrees that it will look solely to the
Trust Property (to the extent of its rights therein) for distributions
hereunder.
The Trust Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Depositor and the Trustee and the rights of the
Certificateholders under the Trust Agreement at any time by the Depositor and
the Trustee with the consent of the holders of Class A-2 Certificates in the
manner set forth in the Series Supplement and the Standard Terms. Any such
consent by the Holder of this Certificate (or any predecessor Certificate) shall
be conclusive and binding on such Holder and upon all future Holders of this
Certificate and of any Certificate issued upon the transfer hereof or in
exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent in
made upon this Certificate. The Trust Agreement also permits the amendment
thereof, in certain limited circumstances, without the consent of the Holders of
any of the Certificates.
The Certificates are issuable in fully registered form only in
denominations of $1,000,000 and in integral multiples of $1,000 in excess
thereof. One Class A-2 Certificate may be issued in a notional amount that is
not an integral multiple of the applicable minimum denomination.
As provided in the Trust Agreement and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Certificate is registerable
in the Certificate Register upon surrender of this Certificate for registration
of transfer at the offices or agencies of the Certificate Registrar maintained
by the Trustee in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York, duly endorsed
by or accompanied by an assignment in the form below and by such other documents
as required by the Trust Agreement, and thereupon one or more new Certificates
of the same class in authorized denominations evidencing the same notional
principal amount will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. The
initial Certificate Registrar appointed under the Trust Agreement is U.S. Bank
Trust National Association.
No service charge will be made for any registration of
transfer or exchange, but the Trustee may require exchange of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection
with any transfer or exchange of Certificates.
The Depositor and the Trustee and any agent of the Depositor
or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Certificate is registered
as the owner hereof for all purposes, and neither the Depositor, the Trustee,
nor any such agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.
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It is the intention of the parties to the Trust Agreement that
the Trust created thereunder shall constitute a fixed investment trust for
federal income tax purposes under Treasury Regulation Section 301.7701-4, and
the Certificateholder agrees to treat the Trust, any distributions therefrom and
its beneficial interest in the Certificates consistently with such
characterization.
The Trust and the obligations of the Depositor and the Trustee
created by the Trust Agreement with respect to the Certificates shall terminate
upon the earliest to occur of (i) the distribution in full of all amounts due to
Certificateholders and retirement of the Underlying Securities; (ii) the call of
all Certificates in connection with an Optional Call, and (iii) the expiration
of 21 years from the death of the last survivor of the descendants of Xxxxxx X.
Xxxxxxx, the late Ambassador of the United States to the Court of St. Xxxxx,
living on the date hereof.
An employee benefit plan subject to the Employee Retirement
Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA"), a plan described in Section
4975(e) of the Code, an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by
reason of any such plan's investment in the entity, including an individual
retirement account or Xxxxx plan (any such, a "Plan") may purchase and hold
Certificates if the Plan can represent and warrant that its purchase and holding
of the Certificates would not be prohibited under ERISA or the Code.
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ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and
transfers unto
PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY
OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER
OF ASSIGNEE
(Please print or type name and address, including postal zip code, of assignee)
the within Certificate, and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably
constituting and appointing _______________ _____ Attorney to transfer said
Certificate on the books of the Certificate Register, with full power of
substitution in the premises.
Dated:
*
Signature Guaranteed:
*
*NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as it
appears upon the face of the within Certificate in every particular, without
alteration, enlargement or any change whatever. Signatures must be guaranteed by
an "eligible guarantor institution" meeting the requirements of the Certificate
Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the
Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program ("STAMP") or such other "signature
guarantee program" as may be determined by the Certificate Registrar in addition
to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
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