CWHEQ, INC. Depositor WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY Owner Trustee TRUST AGREEMENT Dated as of May 30, 2007 CWHEQ REVOLVING HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST, SERIES 2007-E
Exhibit
99.4
CWHEQ,
INC.
Depositor
WILMINGTON
TRUST COMPANY
Owner
Trustee
____________________________________
Dated
as
of May 30, 2007
____________________________________
CWHEQ
REVOLVING HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST,
SERIES
2007-E
Table
of
Contents
Page
ARTICLE
1 DEFINITIONS AND CONSTRUCTION
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1
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Section
1.01
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Definitions
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1
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Section
1.02
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Rules
of Construction
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1
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ARTICLE
2 ORGANIZATION
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3
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Section
2.01
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Name
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3
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Section
2.02
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Office
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3
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Section
2.03
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Purposes
and Powers
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3
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Section
2.04
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Appointment
of Owner Trustee
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4
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Section
2.05
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Initial
Capital Contribution of Assets
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4
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Section
2.06
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Declaration
of Trust
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4
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Section
2.07
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Liability
of a Certificateholder
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4
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Section
2.08
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Title
to Trust Property
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4
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Section
2.09
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Location
of Trust
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5
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Section
2.10
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Representations
and Warranties of Depositor
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5
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ARTICLE
3 THE CERTIFICATES
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6
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Section
3.01
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Initial
Beneficiary of Trust
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6
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Section
3.02
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Issuance
of the Certificates
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6
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Section
3.03
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Authentication
of Certificates
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7
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Section
3.04
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Registration
of and Transfer and Exchange of Certificates
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7
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Section
3.05
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Mutilated,
Destroyed, Lost, or Stolen Certificate
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8
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Section
3.06
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Maintenance
of Office or Agency
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8
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Section
3.07
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Persons
Considered Certificateholders
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9
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Section
3.08
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Access
to List of Certificateholders’ Names and Addresses
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9
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Section
3.09
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Appointment
of Certificate Paying Agent
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9
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Section
3.10
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Restrictions
on Transfer; Legends
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9
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Section
3.11
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REMIC
Provisions
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13
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Section
3.12
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Tax
Matters
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16
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ARTICLE
4 ACTIONS BY OWNER TRUSTEE
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19
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Section
4.01
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Prior
Notice to Certificateholders Regarding Certain Matters
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19
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Section
4.02
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Action
by Certificateholders Regarding Certain Matters
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20
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Section
4.03
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Action
by Certificateholders Regarding Bankruptcy
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20
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Section
4.04
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Restrictions
on Certificateholder’s Power
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21
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Section
4.05
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Majority
Interest
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21
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ARTICLE
5 APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS; CERTAIN DUTIES
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21
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Section
5.01
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Application
of Trust Funds
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21
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Section
5.02
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Method
of Payment
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22
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ARTICLE
6 AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF OWNER TRUSTEE
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22
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Section
6.01
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General
Authority
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22
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Section
6.02
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General
Duties
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23
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Section
6.03
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Action
on Instruction
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23
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Section
6.04
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No
Duties Except as Specified in the Agreement or in
Instructions
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Section
6.05
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No
Action Except Under Specified Documents or Instructions
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24
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Section
6.06
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Restrictions
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25
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ARTICLE
7 CONCERNING OWNER TRUSTEE
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25
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Section
7.01
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Acceptance
of Trusts and Duties
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25
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Section
7.02
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Furnishing
Documents
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26
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Section
7.03
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Representations
and Warranties
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26
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Section
7.04
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Reliance;
Advice of Counsel
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26
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Section
7.05
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Not
Acting in Individual Capacity
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27
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Section
7.06
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Owner
Trustee Not Liable for Certificates or Payment Obligations
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27
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Section
7.07
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Owner
Trustee May Own Notes
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28
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ARTICLE
8 COMPENSATION OF OWNER TRUSTEE
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28
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Section
8.01
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Owner
Trustee’s Fees
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28
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Section
8.02
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Reimbursement
and Indemnification
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28
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Section
8.03
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Payments
to Owner Trustee
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29
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ARTICLE
9 TERMINATION OF AGREEMENT
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29
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Section
9.01
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Termination
of Agreement
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29
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Section
9.02
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Credit
Enhancer’s Rights Regarding Actions, Proceedings, or
Investigations
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30
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Section
9.03
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Rights
of the Credit Enhancer
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31
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ARTICLE
10 SUCCESSOR OWNER TRUSTEES AND ADDITIONAL OWNER
TRUSTEES
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32
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Section
10.01
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Resignation
or Removal of Owner Trustee
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32
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Section
10.02
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Successor
Owner Trustee
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32
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Section
10.03
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Merger
or Consolidation of Owner Trustee
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33
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Section
10.04
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Appointment
of Co Trustee or Separate Trustee
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33
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ARTICLE
11 MISCELLANEOUS
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34
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Section
11.01
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Supplements
and Amendments
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34
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Section
11.02
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Limitations
on Rights of Others
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35
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Section
11.03
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Notices
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35
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Section
11.04
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Severability
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36
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Section
11.05
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Separate
Counterparts
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36
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Section
11.06
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Successors
and Assigns
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36
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Section
11.07
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Nonpetition
Covenant
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36
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Section
11.08
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No
Recourse
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36
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Section
11.09
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Headings
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37
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Section
11.10
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Governing
Law
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37
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Section
11.11
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Rule
144A Information
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37
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Section
11.12
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Third-Party
Beneficiary
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37
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EXHIBITS
EXHIBIT
A
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Form
of Certificate of Trust of Revolving Home Equity Loan Trust, Series
2007-E
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A
1
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EXHIBIT
B-1
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Form
of Class C Certificates
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B-1
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EXHIBIT
B-2
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Form
of Class E-P Certificates
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B-2
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EXHIBIT
B-3
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Form
of Residual Certificates
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B-3
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EXHIBIT
C-1
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Form
of Representation Letter
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C-1
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EXHIBIT
C-2
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Form
of Transfer Affidavit
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C-2
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This
TRUST AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”) dated as of May 30,
2007, between CWHEQ, INC., a Delaware corporation, as Depositor, and WILMINGTON
TRUST COMPANY, a Delaware banking corporation, as Owner Trustee,
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS,
the parties to this Agreement will create the CWHEQ Revolving Home Equity Loan
Trust, Series 2007-E and provide for, among other things, the issuance of the
Class C Certificates, the Class E-P Certificates, the Class R 1 Certificates,
and the Class R 2 Certificates;
NOW,
THEREFORE, the parties to this Agreement agree as follows.
ARTICLE
1
DEFINITIONS
AND CONSTRUCTION
Section
1.01
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Definitions.
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Unless
the context requires a different meaning, capitalized terms are used in this
Agreement have the meanings given to them in the Master Glossary of Defined
Terms attached hereto as Annex 1.
Section
1.02
|
Rules
of Construction.
|
Except
as
otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement or unless the context clearly
requires otherwise:
(a) Defined
terms include, as appropriate, all genders and the plural as well as the
singular.
(b) References
to designated articles, sections, subsections, exhibits, and other subdivisions
of this Agreement, such as “Section 6.12 (a),” refer to the designated article,
section, subsection, exhibit, or other subdivision of this Agreement as a whole
and to all subdivisions of the designated article, section, subsection, exhibit,
or other subdivision. The exhibits and other attachments to this Agreement
are a
part of this Agreement. The words “herein,” “hereof,” “hereto,” “hereunder,” and
other words of similar import refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to
any
particular article, section, exhibit, or other subdivision of this
Agreement.
(c) The
recitals located before Article I are not a part of the agreement of the
parties. Whether or not they are correct, the recitals shall not affect the
agreement of the parties or the interpretation of this Agreement, and they
shall
not be interpreted as representations, warranties, covenants, or any other
matter of substance. The headings of the various Articles and Sections in this
Agreement are for convenience of reference only and shall not define or limit
any of the provisions of this Agreement.
(d) Any
term
that relates to a document or a statute, rule, or regulation includes any
amendments, modifications, supplements, or any other changes that may have
occurred since the document, statute, rule, or regulation came into being,
including changes that occur after the date of this Agreement. References to
law
are not limited to statutes. References to statutes include any rules or
regulations promulgated under them by a governmental authority charged with
the
administration of the statute. Any reference to any person includes references
to its successors and assigns.
(e) Any
party
may execute any of the requirements under this Agreement either directly or
through others, and the right to cause something to be done rather than doing
it
directly shall be implicit in every requirement under this Agreement. Unless
a
provision is restricted as to time or limited as to frequency, all provisions
under this Agreement are implicitly available from time to time.
(f) The
term
“including” and all its variations mean “including but not limited to.” Except
when used in conjunction with the word “either,” the word “or” is always used
inclusively (for example, the phrase “A or B” means “A or B or both,” not
“either A or B but not both”).
(g) A
reference to “a [thing]” or “any [of a thing]” does not imply the existence or
occurrence of the thing referred to even though not followed by “if any,” and
“any [of a thing]” is any and all of it. A reference to the plural of anything
as to which there could be either one or more than one does not imply the
existence of more than one (for instance, the phrase “the obligors on a note”
means “the obligor or obligors on a note”). “Until [something occurs]” does not
imply that it must occur, and will not be modified by the word “unless.” The
word “due” and the word “payable” are each used in the sense that the stated
time for payment has passed. The word “accrued” is used in its accounting sense,
i.e., an amount paid is no longer accrued. In the calculation of amounts of
things, differences and sums may generally result in negative numbers, but
when
the calculation of the excess of one thing over another results in zero or
a
negative number, the calculation is disregarded and an “excess” does not exist.
Portions of things may be expressed as fractions or percentages interchangeably.
The word “shall” is used in its imperative sense, as for instance meaning a
party agrees to something or something must occur or exist.
(h) All
accounting terms used in an accounting context and not otherwise defined, and
accounting terms partly defined in this Agreement, to the extent not completely
defined, shall be construed in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles in the United States. To the extent that the definitions of
accounting terms in this Agreement are inconsistent with their meanings under
generally accepted accounting principles, the definitions in this Agreement
shall control. Capitalized terms used in this Agreement without definition
that
are defined in the Uniform Commercial Code of the relevant jurisdiction are
used
in this Agreement as defined in that Uniform Commercial Code.
(i) In
the
computation of a period of time from a specified date to a later specified
date
or an open ended period, the words “from” and “beginning” mean “from and
including,” the word “after” means “from but excluding,” the words “to” and
“until” mean “to but excluding,” and the word “through” means “to and
including.” Likewise, in setting deadlines or other periods, “by” means “on or
before.” The words “preceding,” “following,” and words of similar import, mean
immediately preceding or following. References to a month or a year refer to
calendar months and calendar years.
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(j) Any
reference to the enforceability of any agreement against a party means that
it
is enforceable against the party in accordance with its terms, subject to
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, and other similar laws of
general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general
equity principles.
(k) Generally
only the registered holder of a Security is recognized, such as in Section
3.07.
Persons Considered Owner and payment provisions.
However, for the purposes of the transfer restrictions and related provisions,
such as agreements, representations, and warranties by holders of Securities,
references to Securityholders, holders, and the like refer equally to beneficial
owners who have an interest in a Security but are not reflected in the
applicable register as the owner and references to transfers of Securities
include transfers of interests in a Security.
ARTICLE
2
ORGANIZATION
Section
2.01
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Name.
|
This
Trust shall be known as “CWHEQ Revolving Home Equity Loan Trust,
Series 2007-E,” in which name the Owner Trustee may issue Notes and
otherwise conduct the business of the Trust.
Section
2.02
|
Office.
|
The
office of the Trust shall be in care of the Owner Trustee at “Xxxxxx Square
North, 0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000, Attention: Corporate
Trust Administration” or at any other address in the State of Delaware that the
Owner Trustee may designate by notice to the Depositor.
Section
2.03
|
Purposes
and Powers.
|
(a) The
Trust
is authorized to engage in the following activities:
(1) to
issue
the Notes pursuant to the Indenture;
(2) to
issue
the Certificates pursuant to this Agreement;
(3) to
Grant
the Assets to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to the Indenture;
(4) to
distribute to the Holders of the Certificates pursuant to this Agreement and
the
Transaction Documents distributions to the Issuer under the Indenture and any
portion of the Assets released from the Lien of the Indenture and any other
amounts provided for in the Sale and Servicing Agreement;
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(5) to
enter
into and perform its obligations under the Transaction Documents to which it
becomes a party;
(6) to
engage
in those activities, including entering into agreements, that are appropriate
to
accomplish any of the foregoing or are incidental to them; and
(7) subject
to compliance with the Transaction Documents, to engage in any other activities
appropriate to conserve the Assets and make distributions to any
Certificateholder and the holders of Notes.
The
Trust
shall not engage in any activity other than in connection with the foregoing
activities or other than as required or authorized by this Agreement or the
other Transaction Documents.
Section
2.04
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Appointment
of Owner Trustee.
|
The
Depositor appoints the Owner Trustee as trustee of the Trust effective as of
the
date of this Agreement to have all the rights and obligations in this
Agreement.
Section
2.05
|
Initial
Capital Contribution of
Assets.
|
The
Depositor hereby remits to the Owner Trustee the sum of $1. The Owner Trustee
hereby acknowledges receipt in trust from the Depositor of the foregoing
contribution. The Depositor shall pay organizational expenses of the Trust
as
they may arise or shall promptly reimburse the Owner Trustee on request for
any
such expenses paid by the Owner Trustee.
Section
2.06
|
Declaration
of Trust.
|
The
Owner
Trustee hereby declares that it will hold the Assets on the terms of this
Agreement, for the benefit of the Certificateholders, subject to the obligations
of the Trust under the Transaction Documents. The Trust is a statutory trust
under the Statutory Trust Statute and this Agreement is the governing instrument
of the statutory trust. The Owner Trustee shall have all rights and obligations
in this Agreement and in the Statutory Trust Statute for accomplishing the
purposes of the Trust. The Owner Trustee shall file with the Secretary of State
of the State of Delaware a Certificate of Trust of the Trust.
Section
2.07
|
Liability
of a Certificateholder.
|
Except
to
the extent otherwise provided in this Agreement or in the other Transaction
Documents, the Certificateholders shall be entitled to the same limitation
of
personal liability extended to stockholders of private corporations for profit
organized under the general corporation law of the State of
Delaware.
Section
2.08
|
Title
to Trust Property.
|
Legal
title to all the Assets shall be vested in the Trust as a separate legal entity
except where applicable law in any jurisdiction requires title to any part
of
the Assets to be vested in a trustee, in which case title shall be vested in
the
Owner Trustee or any co trustee or separate trustee, as the case may
be.
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Section
2.09
|
Location
of Trust.
|
The
Trust
will be located in Delaware and administered in Delaware. Any bank accounts
maintained by the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Trust shall be located in
Delaware. The Trust shall not have any employees in any State other than
Delaware. Nothing in this Agreement shall restrict the Owner Trustee from having
employees within or without Delaware. Payments will be received by the Trust
only in Delaware or California, and payments will be made by the Trust only
from
Delaware.
Section
2.10
|
Representations
and Warranties of
Depositor.
|
The
Depositor represents and warrants to the Owner Trustee as of the date of this
Agreement, and as to any Transaction Document, as of its date that:
(a) Organization
and Good Standing. The Depositor is a corporation duly organized and
validly existing under the laws of Delaware, with full power and authority
to
own its properties and to conduct its business as presently owned or conducted
and to execute, deliver, and perform this Agreement and any other document
related to this Agreement to which it is a party and to perform its obligations
as contemplated by them.
(b) Due
Qualification. The Depositor is duly qualified to do business as a Delaware
corporation in good standing and has obtained all necessary licenses and
approvals in each jurisdiction in which failure to so qualify or to obtain
required licenses or approvals would have a material adverse effect on its
ability to perform its obligations under this Agreement and the Transaction
Documents to which the Depositor is a party.
(c) Due
Authorization; Enforceability. The Depositor has full power and authority
to execute, deliver, and perform this Agreement and the Transaction Documents
to
which it is a party and to carry out their respective terms. The Depositor
has
full power and authority to sell and assign the Assets. The execution, delivery,
and performance by the Depositor of this Agreement and the Transaction Documents
to which the Depositor is a party have been duly authorized by the Depositor
by
all necessary action. This Agreement and the Transaction Documents executed
by
the Depositor have been duly executed and delivered and constitute the valid
and
legally binding obligations of the Depositor enforceable against the Depositor
in accordance with their terms.
(d) No
Conflict. The Depositor’s execution and delivery of this Agreement and the
Transaction Documents to which the Depositor is a party, performance of the
transactions contemplated by them, and fulfillment of their terms applicable
to
the Depositor do not conflict with any requirements of law applicable to the
Depositor or conflict with, result in any breach of any of the provisions of,
or
with or without notice or lapse of time constitute a default under, any
indenture, contract, or other instrument to which the Depositor is a party
or by
which it or its properties are bound.
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(e) Consents.
No authorization, consent, license, order, or approval of or registration or
declaration with, any governmental authority is required to be obtained,
effected, or given by the Depositor in connection with the execution and
delivery of this Agreement or the Transaction Documents by the Depositor or
its
performance of its obligations under any of them or the transactions
contemplated by any of them, or the transfer of the Assets to the
Trust.
(f) Litigation.
No actions, proceedings, or investigations are pending or, to the best of the
Depositor’s knowledge, threatened against the Depositor before any governmental
authority having jurisdiction over the Depositor
(1) asserting
the invalidity of this Agreement or any other Transaction Documents to which
the
Depositor is a party,
(2) seeking
to prevent the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement or any other Transaction Documents to which the Depositor is a
party,
(3) seeking
any determination that might materially and adversely affect the performance
by
the Depositor of its obligations under, or the validity or enforceability of,
this Agreement or any other Transaction Documents to which the Depositor is
a
party, or
(4) seeking
to affect adversely the income tax attributes of the Trust under the United
States federal or New York State or Delaware income tax law.
ARTICLE
3
THE
CERTIFICATES
Section
3.01
|
Initial
Beneficiary of Trust.
|
Upon
the
formation of the Trust by the contribution by the Depositor pursuant to Section
2.05 and until the issuance of the Certificates, the Depositor shall be the
sole
beneficiary of the Trust.
Section
3.02
|
Issuance
of the Certificates.
|
(a) On
the
Closing Date, the Trust will issue four classes of Certificates designated
as
the “Revolving Home Equity Loan Asset Backed Certificates,
Series 2007-E, Class R 1,” “Revolving Home Equity Loan Asset Backed
Certificates, Series 2007-E, Class R 2,” “Revolving Home Equity Loan
Asset Backed Certificates, Series 2007-E, Class E-P,” and “Revolving
Home Equity Loan Asset Backed Certificates, Series 2007-E, Class C”
pursuant to this Agreement and deliver them to the order of the Depositor when
authenticated.
(b) The
Certificates will be issued in definitive, fully registered form and will be
substantially in the form of Exhibit X-0, X-0, and B-3. The Certificates will,
on the Closing Date, be executed, authenticated, and delivered by the Owner
Trustee to the order of the Depositor concurrently with the transfer of the
Mortgage Loans to the Trust.
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(c) The
Certificates will be executed by manual or facsimile signature on behalf of
the
Owner Trustee by an authorized officer. Certificates bearing the manual or
facsimile signatures of individuals who were, at the time their signatures
were
affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of the Owner Trustee shall bind the Trust,
notwithstanding that any of them have ceased to be so authorized before the
authentication and delivery of the Certificates or did not hold such offices
at
the date of the Certificate. The Certificates will not be book entry
certificates.
Section
3.03
|
Authentication
of Certificates.
|
No
Certificate shall be entitled to any benefit under this Agreement, or be valid
for any purpose, unless the Certificate is manually authenticated by the Owner
Trustee substantially in the form provided in this Agreement, and the
authentication on any Certificate will be conclusive evidence, and the only
evidence, that the Certificate has been duly authenticated and delivered. All
Certificates shall be dated the date of their authentication.
The
Trust
initially appoints the Indenture Trustee to act as the authentication agent
of
the Owner Trustee. All references to the authentication of the Certificates
shall be considered to include the authentication agent.
Section
3.04
|
Registration
of and Transfer and Exchange of
Certificates.
|
The
Trust
shall keep a certificate register (the “Certificate
Register”) in which, subject to any reasonable regulations it may
prescribe, the Trust shall provide for the registration of the Certificates
and,
to the extent permitted by this Agreement, of transfers and exchanges of the
Certificates. The certificate registrar (the “Certificate
Registrar”) is initially the Indenture Trustee.
Whenever
any Certificate is surrendered for registration of transfer at the office or
agency of the Certificate Registrar maintained for that purpose and the
conditions of this Section have been satisfied, the Owner Trustee, on behalf
of
the Trust, shall execute, authenticate, and deliver in the name of the
designated transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations
of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee
or any authenticating agent.
At
the
option of its Holder, each Certificate may be exchanged for other Certificates,
in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount, by surrendering the
Certificate to be exchanged at the office or agency of the Certificate Registrar
maintained for that purpose.
Every
Class C Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange shall be accompanied by a fully completed representation letter,
substantially in the form of Exhibit C-1, and every Residual Certificate
presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be
accompanied by fully completed representation letter and transfer affidavit,
substantially in the forms of Exhibit C-1 and Exhibit C-2, respectively, each
delivered at the expense of the Certificateholder, and duly executed by the
Certificateholder or an attorney-in-fact for the Certificateholder duly
authorized in writing. Each Holder of a Certificate must satisfy the transfer
restrictions in the representation letter. Each Certificate surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently
disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary
practice.
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No
service charge shall be made for the registration of transfer or exchange of
any
Certificate, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require
payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may
be
imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of the
Certificate.
The
preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee need
not
transfer or exchange, and the Certificate Registrar need not register transfers
or exchanges, of Certificates during the fifteen days preceding the due date
for
any payment on the Certificates.
The
Certificate Registrar shall at all times maintain an office or agency where
Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange.
Section
3.05
|
Mutilated,
Destroyed, Lost, or Stolen
Certificate.
|
If
any
mutilated Certificate is surrendered to the Certificate Registrar, then the
Owner Trustee shall execute and the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate
and
deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of the mutilated Certificate, a new
Certificate of like tenor and denomination.
If
the
Certificate Registrar receives evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction,
loss, or theft of a Certificate and the Certificate Registrar receives the
security or indemnity it requires to hold it harmless, then in the absence
of
notice to the Issuer, the Certificate Registrar, or the Certificate Registrar
that the Certificate has been acquired by a Protected Purchaser, and if the
requirements of Section 8-406 of the UCC are met and subject to Section 8-405
of
the UCC, then the Owner Trustee shall execute and the Certificate Registrar
shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of the destroyed,
lost, or stolen Certificate, a new Certificate of like tenor and denomination.
Any duplicate Certificate issued pursuant to this Section shall constitute
conclusive evidence of ownership in the Trust, as if originally issued, whether
or not the lost, stolen, or destroyed Certificate is found.
The
Certificate Registrar may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover
any
tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed on the issuance of the
new
Certificate under this Section.
Section
3.06
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Maintenance
of Office or Agency.
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The
Trust
shall maintain an office or agency where notices and demands on the Trust
regarding the Certificates and the Transaction Documents may be served. The
Trust initially designates Indenture Trustee as its office for those purposes.
The Owner Trustee shall give prompt written notice to the Certificateholders
of
the location, and any change in the location, of this office or agency. If
the
Trust ever fails to maintain this office or agency, then presentations,
surrenders, notices, and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust
Office of the Owner Trustee.
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Section
3.07
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Persons
Considered
Certificateholders.
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Before
due presentation of a Certificate for registration of transfer, the Owner
Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, and any paying agent for the Certificates
shall treat the person in whose name any Certificate is registered in the
Certificate Register as the owner of the Certificate for the purpose of
receiving distributions pursuant to Section 5.02 and for all other purposes
whatsoever, and none of the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, and any
paying agent for the Certificates shall be bound by any notice to the
contrary.
Section
3.08
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Access
to List of Certificateholders’ Names and
Addresses.
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The
Certificate Registrar shall furnish to the Depositor or the Owner Trustee a
list
of the names and addresses of the Certificateholders as of the most recent
Record Date within fifteen days after receipt by the Certificate Registrar
of a
written request for it from the Depositor or the Owner Trustee.
Section
3.09
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Appointment
of Certificate Paying
Agent.
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The
paying agent for the Certificates shall make distributions to the Holder of
each
Certificate pursuant to this Agreement and shall report the amounts of those
distributions to the Owner Trustee. The Administrator, on behalf of the Trust,
may remove the Certificate Paying Agent if the Administrator determines in
its
sole discretion that the Certificate Paying Agent has failed to perform its
obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. The Certificate Paying
Agent initially shall be the Indenture Trustee. The Certificate Paying Agent
shall be permitted to resign as Certificate Paying Agent on thirty days’ written
notice to the Owner Trustee. If the Indenture Trustee is no longer the
Certificate Paying Agent, the Administrator shall appoint a bank or trust
company as successor to act as Certificate Paying Agent. The Administrator
shall
cause the successor Certificate Paying Agent or any additional Certificate
Paying Agent appointed by the Administrator to execute and deliver to the Trust
an instrument in which the successor Certificate Paying Agent or additional
Certificate Paying Agent agrees with the Trust that, as Certificate Paying
Agent, the successor Certificate Paying Agent or additional Certificate Paying
Agent will hold any sums held by it for payment to the Certificateholders in
trust for the benefit of the Certificateholders entitled to them until those
sums are paid to the appropriate Certificateholders. The Certificate Paying
Agent shall return all unclaimed funds to the Trust, and upon removal of a
Certificate Paying Agent, the Certificate Paying Agent shall also return all
funds in its possession to the Trust. Any reference in this Agreement to the
Certificate Paying Agent shall include any co Certificate Paying Agent unless
the context requires otherwise.
Section
3.10
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Restrictions
on Transfer; Legends.
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(a) The
Certificates shall be assigned, transferred, exchanged, pledged, financed,
hypothecated, or otherwise conveyed (collectively, for purposes of this Section
and any other Section referring to the Certificates, “transferred” or a
“transfer”) only in accordance with this Section.
(b) No
transfer of a Certificate will be made unless the transfer is exempt from the
registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 (the
“Act”) and any applicable state securities laws or is
made in accordance with the Act and those laws. Except for the initial issuance
of a Certificate to the Master Servicer or the Depositor (or an affiliate of
any
of them) (and any subsequent transfer by any of them to one of its Affiliates),
the Owner Trustee will require either:
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(1) the
transferee to execute an investment letter acceptable to and in form and
substance satisfactory to the Owner Trustee certifying to the Owner Trustee
the
facts surrounding the transfer, which investment letter shall not be an expense
of the Owner Trustee or
(2) an
Opinion of Counsel acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to
the
Owner Trustee and the Depositor that the transfer may be made pursuant to an
exemption from the Act, describing the applicable exemption and its basis,
or is
being made pursuant to the Act, which Opinion of Counsel shall not be an expense
of the Owner Trustee or the Depositor.
The
Holder of a Certificate desiring to effect a transfer shall indemnify the Trust
against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is
not
made in accordance with any federal and state laws.
(c) No
transfer of an interest in a Certificate will be made unless the Owner Trustee
has received either:
(1) a
representation letter from the proposed transferee, acceptable to and in form
and substance satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, to the effect that the proposed
transferee is not an employee benefit plan subject to Section 406 of ERISA
or a
plan subject to Section 4975 of the Code, or a person acting on behalf of,
or
investing plan assets of, any such plan, which representation letter shall
not
be an expense of the Owner Trustee; or
(2) an
Opinion of Counsel acceptable to the Owner Trustee to the effect that the
purchase or holding of the Certificate will not result in a non exempt
prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and will not
subject the Owner Trustee to any obligation in addition to those undertaken
in
this Agreement, which Opinion of Counsel shall not be an expense of the Owner
Trustee or the Depositor;
except
that, in the case of the initial issuance of a Certificate to the Master
Servicer or the Depositor (or an affiliate of any of them) (and any subsequent
transfer by any of them to one of its Affiliates), the representation in clause
(i) shall be deemed to have been made.
(d) No
transfer of an interest in a Class R-1 Certificate after its initial issuance
will be made unless:
(1) the
proposed Holder expressly assumes the performance of every obligation of the
existing Holder under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents
pursuant to an agreement acceptable to the Owner Trustee, including the
obligation to advance funds to the Trust as necessary so that the Trust is
able
to pay the purchase price for Additional Home Equity Loans;
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(2) the
existing Holder delivers to the Owner Trustee an Officer’s Certificate stating
that the transfer complies with this Section 3.10 and that all the conditions
in
this Section 3.10 have been complied with, and an Opinion of Counsel stating
that all the conditions in this Section 3.10 have been complied with;
and
(3) the
Rating Agency Condition is satisfied with respect to the transfer.
(e) Each
person who has or who acquires any ownership interest in a Residual Certificate
by accepting its ownership interest agrees to the following provisions, and
the
rights of each person acquiring any ownership interest in a Residual Certificate
are subject to the following provisions:
(1) Only
a
Permitted Transferee may hold an ownership interest in a Residual Certificate
and each person holding or acquiring any ownership interest in a Residual
Certificate shall promptly notify the Indenture Trustee of any change or
impending change in its status as a Permitted Transferee.
(2) No
ownership interest in a Residual Certificate may be registered on the Closing
Date or thereafter transferred, and the Indenture Trustee shall not register
the
transfer of any Residual Certificate unless the Indenture Trustee has received
a
Transfer Affidavit from the initial owner or the proposed transferee, except
in
connection with any registration in the name of, or transfer of a Residual
Certificate to, an Affiliate of the Depositor (either directly or through a
nominee).
(3) Each
person holding or acquiring any ownership interest in a Residual Certificate
shall
(A) obtain
a
Transfer Affidavit from any other person it attempts to transfer its ownership
interest in a Residual Certificate to,
(B) obtain
a
Transfer Affidavit from any person for whom it is acting as nominee, trustee,
or
agent in connection with any transfer of any ownership interest in a Residual
Certificate, and
(C) not
transfer its ownership interest in a Residual Certificate to any other person
if
it has actual knowledge that such person is not a Permitted
Transferee.
(4) Any
attempted transfer of any ownership interest in a Residual Certificate in
violation of this Section 3.10(e) shall be void ab initio and shall vest no
rights in the purported transferee. If any purported transferee becomes a Holder
of a Residual Certificate in violation of this Section 3.10(e), then the last
preceding Permitted Transferee shall be restored to all rights as Holder of
the
Residual Certificate retroactive to the date of registration of transfer of
the
Residual Certificate. The Indenture Trustee shall be under no liability to
any
person for any registration of transfer of a Residual Certificate that is in
fact not permitted by this Section 3.10(e) or for making any payments due on
the
Residual Certificate to its Holder or taking any other action with respect
to
the Holder under this Agreement so long as the transfer was registered after
receipt of the related Transfer Affidavit and any other required documents.
The
Indenture Trustee shall be entitled but not obligated to recover from any Holder
of a Residual Certificate that was in fact not a Permitted Transferee at the
time it became a Holder or, at such subsequent time as it became other than
a
Permitted Transferee, all payments made on the Residual Certificate at and
after
either such time. Any such payments so recovered by the Indenture Trustee shall
be paid and delivered by the Indenture Trustee to the last preceding Permitted
Transferee of the Residual Certificate.
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(5) The
Depositor shall use its best efforts to make available, upon receipt of written
request from the Indenture Trustee, all information necessary to compute any
tax
imposed under Section 860E(e) of the Code as a result of a transfer of an
ownership interest in a Residual Certificate to any Holder who is not a
Permitted Transferee.
(f) Each
Certificate shall bear a legend substantially in the following
form:
This
certificate has not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act
of
1933, as amended, or the securities laws of any state and may not be resold
or
transferred unless it is registered pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933
and
the securities laws of any state or is sold or transferred in transactions
that
are exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933 and under
applicable state law and is transferred in accordance with Section 3.10 of
the
Trust Agreement related to CWHEQ Revolving Home Equity Loan Trust,
Series 2007-E. Neither this certificate nor any interest in it may be
transferred unless the transferee delivers to the trustee either a
representation letter to the effect that the transferee is not an employee
benefit plan subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974,
as
amended, a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Code, as amended, or a person
acting on behalf of or using the assets of any such plan; or an opinion of
counsel in accordance with Section 3.10(c) of the Trust Agreement related to
CWHEQ Revolving Home Equity Loan Trust, Series 2007-E. Notwithstanding anything
else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of this certificate to
or on
behalf of an employee benefit plan subject to ERISA or to Section 4975 of the
Code without the opinion of counsel satisfactory to the trustee as described
above shall be void.
(g) No
Certificate shall be transferred except to (i) the Master Servicer, the
Depositor, or the Trust (or an affiliate of any of them) or (ii) a qualified
institutional buyer (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act). Each
person (other than the Master Servicer, or the Trust (or an affiliate of them))
to whom a Certificate is proposed to be transferred will be required to certify
to the holder of the R-1 Certificates, the Trust, and the Certificate Registrar
that it is a qualified institutional buyer.
The
Class
R-1 Certificates may not be transferred except to the Master Servicer, the
Depositor, or the Trust (or an affiliate of any of them). The Class R-1
Certificates may only be transferable in their entirety and may not have more
than a single Certificateholder.
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(h) Notwithstanding
anything in this Agreement to the contrary, the Depositor, without the consent
of any Noteholder or Certificateholder, may amend this Section 3.10 with the
consent of the Credit Enhancer if it receives an Opinion of Counsel to the
effect that the amendment will not cause the imposition of any tax on any REMIC
or the Certificateholders or Noteholders, or cause any REMIC to fail to qualify
as a REMIC at any time that any Certificates or Notes are
outstanding.
(i) The
restrictions on transfers of a Residual Certificate in this Section 3.10 shall
cease to apply (and the applicable portions of the legend on a Residual
Certificate may be deleted) with respect to transfers occurring after delivery
to the Owner Trustee of an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the elimination
of the restrictions will not cause any REMIC to fail to qualify as a REMIC
at
any time that the Certificates are outstanding or result in the imposition
of
any tax on the Trust, a Certificateholder, Noteholder, or another person. Each
person holding or acquiring any ownership interest in a Residual Certificate
consents to any amendment of this Agreement that, based on an Opinion of Counsel
furnished to the Owner Trustee, is reasonably necessary
(1) to
ensure
that the record ownership of, or any beneficial interest in, a Residual
Certificate is not transferred, directly or indirectly, to a person that is
not
a Permitted Transferee or
(2) to
provide for a means to compel the transfer of a Residual Certificate that is
held by a person that is not a Permitted Transferee to a Holder that is a
Permitted Transferee.
(j) Pursuant
to the Sale and Servicing Agreement, Principal Collections may be applied to
purchase Additional Balances for the Trust during a Collection Period. If on
any
Collection Period Principal Collections are insufficient to purchase all
Additional Balances, the Holder of the Class R-1 Certificates will advance
funds
to the Trust to purchase the Additional Balances that were not funded by
Principal Collections. The Class R-1 Balance will be repaid to the Class R-1
Certificates from Principal Collections on the Mortgage Loans allocated to
the
Certificates on future Payment Dates and will be entitled to allocation of
Interest Collections on the Mortgage Loans.
If
the
Holder of the Class R-1 Certificates fails to advance to the Trust amounts
specified in the previous paragraph, the Sponsor will be required to purchase,
and the Holder of the Class R-1 Certificates will be required to sell, the
Class
R-1 Certificates and the Sponsor will assume all of the obligations of the
Holder of the R-1 Certificates, including the obligation to make advances as
provided in the preceding paragraph.
Section
3.11
|
REMIC
Provisions.
|
The
Owner
Trustee will elect as provided in this Section that the Trust, other than the
Basis Risk Carryforward Reserve Fund, the Cap Contract Account, and the
Additional Loan Account, be treated for federal income tax purposes as
comprising three real estate mortgage investment conduits (each a
“REMIC” or, in the alternative, the “Lower
Tier REMIC,” the “Middle Tier REMIC” and
the “Master REMIC”). The Lower Tier REMIC will hold as
assets all property of the Trust, other than the Basis Risk Carryforward Reserve
Fund, the Cap Contract Account, and the Additional Loan Account, and will be
evidenced by (i) the Lower Tier REMIC Regular Interests, which will be
uncertificated and will represent the “REMIC regular interests” in the Lower
Tier REMIC, and (ii) the Class LT-R Interest, which will represent the “REMIC
residual interest” in the Lower Tier REMIC. The Middle Tier REMIC will hold as
assets the Lower Tier REMIC Regular Interests and will be evidenced by Middle
Tier REMIC Regular Interests, which will be uncertificated and will represent
the REMIC regular interests in the Middle Tier REMIC, and the Class MT-R
Interest, which will represent the REMIC residual interest in the Middle Tier
REMIC. The Master REMIC will hold as assets the Middle Tier REMIC
Regular Interests and will be evidenced by the Notes and the Certificates,
each
of which (other than the Class R-2 Certificates) will represent ownership of
one
or more REMIC regular interests in the Master REMIC. The Class R-1
Certificates will represent ownership of the sole Class of the REMIC residual
interest in the Lower Tier REMIC. The Class R-2 Certificates will
represent ownership of the sole Class of the REMIC residual interest in each
of
the Middle Tier REMIC and the Master REMIC. The latest possible
maturity date, for federal income tax purposes, of all REMIC regular interests
created herein shall be the Latest Possible Maturity Date.
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The
Lower Tier REMIC
The
Lower
Tier REMIC Regular Interests will have the principal balances and pass-through
rates as set forth in the following table:
Lower
Tier REMIC Interests
|
Initial
Principal Balance
|
Pass-Through
Rate
|
LT-1
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
LT-2
|
(3)
|
(4)
|
R-1
|
(5)
|
(5)
|
(1)
|
The
LT-1 Interest shall have a principal balance equal to the initial
Loan
Pool Balance as of the Cut-off
Date.
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(2)
|
Interest
shall accrue on the LT-1 Interest at a per annum rate equal to the
weighted average of the Loan Rates of the Mortgage Loans (weighted
on the
basis of the daily average Asset Balance of each Mortgage Loan during
the
related billing cycle before the Collection Period relating to the
Payment
Date) net of (i) the Servicing Fee Rate and (ii) the rate at which
the
premium payable to the Note Insurer is calculated (adjusted to reflect
the
difference between the Loan Pool Balance as of the beginning of the
Collection Period and the Note Principal Balance of the Class A
Notes).
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(3)
|
The
LT-2 Interest shall have a principal balance equal to the amount
deposited
in the Trust Fund on the Closing Date to purchase Additional Home
Equity
Loans.
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(4)
|
During
the first Collection Period, the LT-2 Interest shall not accrue any
interest. Thereafter, interest shall accrue on the LT-2
Interest at a per annum rate equal to the weighted average of the
Loan
Rates of the Mortgage Loans (weighted on the basis of the daily average
Asset Balance of each Mortgage Loan during the related billing cycle
before the Collection Period relating to the Payment Date) net of
(i) the
Servicing Fee Rate and (ii) the rate at which the premium payable
to the
Note Insurer is calculated (adjusted to reflect the difference between
the
Loan Pool Balance as of the beginning of the Collection Period and
the
Note Principal Balance of the Class A
Notes).
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(5)
|
The
Class R-1 Certificates shall not have any initial principal
balance. If there are any Net Draws, the Class R-1 Certificates
shall contribute an amount equal to such Net Draws to a reserve fund
in
the Lower Tier REMIC established to acquire such Net
Draws. After the first Collection Period the Class R-1
Certificates shall be entitled to its proportionate amount of interest
accruing based on the outstanding Net Draws. For the first
Collection Period, if there are any Net Draws, the Class R-1 Certificates
shall be entitled to the excess of the interest accruing on the Mortgage
Loans over the interest that accrues on the Lower Tier REMIC regular
interests.
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The
Middle Tier REMIC
The
Middle Tier REMIC Regular Interests will have the principal balances,
pass-through rates and Corresponding Classes of Certificates as set forth in
the
following table:
Middle
Tier REMIC Regular Interests
|
Initial
Principal Balance
|
Pass-Through
Rate
|
Corresponding
Class of Notes
|
MT-A
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
A
|
MT-Accrual
|
(3)
|
(2)
|
N/A
|
MT-R
|
(4)
|
(4)
|
N/A
|
(1)
|
The
MT-A Interests (the “Accretion Directed Class”) shall have an initial
balance equal to 50% of its Corresponding Class of Notes and on each
Payment Date, interest, principal payments and Realized Losses shall
be
allocated so as to cause the MT-A Interests to continue to equal
50% of
the Corresponding Class of Notes.
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(2)
|
Each
MT-A Interest shall have an interest rate equal to the weighted average
of
the pass-through rates of the LT-1 Interest and LT-2 Interest for
such
Payment Date (the “LT REMIC WAC”).
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(3)
|
The
MT-Accrual Interest (the “Accrual Class”) shall have a principal balance
equal to the sum of (a) 50% of the Loan Pool Balance as of the Cut-off
Date (b) 50% of the amount contributed to the Trust on the Closing
Date to
acquire Additional Home Equity Loans, and (c) 50% of initial
overcollateralization. The initial overcollateralization is the
excess of the sum of the Loan Pool Balance plus the amount contributed
to
the Trust to acquire Additional Home Equity Loans over the Note Principal
Balance of the Class A Notes. On each Payment Date, interest,
principal and Realized Losses shall be allocated so as to cause the
MT-Accrual Interest to equal the excess of the Loan Pool Balance
(less Net
Draws) as of the end of the Collection Period over the principal
balance
of the Accretion Directed Class (after taking into account distributions
for such Payment Date).
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(4)
|
The
MT-R Interest shall not have any initial principal balance and shall
not
have a pass-through rate.
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The
Master REMIC
The
following table specifies the class designation, pass through rate, and
principal amount for each class of Master REMIC Interest:
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Master
REMIC Interests
|
Initial
Principal Balance
|
Pass-Through
Rate
|
Class
A Notes
|
$ 900,000,000
|
(1)
|
Class
R-2 Certificates
|
$ 100
(2)
|
(2)
|
Class
C Certificates
|
(3)
|
(4)
|
(1)
|
The
pass-through rate on the Class A Notes is equal to the least of (i)
its
LIBOR rate plus its margin and (ii) a rate equal to the weighted
average
interest rate of the Accretion Directed and Accrual Classes (the
“MT
Interests”).
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(2)
|
The
R-2 Certificates will have an initial principal balance of $100 and
shall
not have a pass-through rate.
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(3)
|
The
Class C Interest shall have a principal balance equal to the sum
of the
initial overcollateralization. It shall not be entitled to receive
interest on its principal balance. The Class C Interest shall
have a notional balance equal to the Loan Pool Balance as of the
beginning
of a Collection Period less Net
Draws.
|
(4)
|
For
each Interest Accrual Period the Class C Certificates are entitled
to an
amount (the “Class C Distributable Amount”)
equal to the sum of a specified portion of the interest on the MT-A
Interest equal to the excess of the LT REMIC WAC over the product
of two
and the weighted average of the rate on the Accretion Directed Class
(capped at the rate on its Corresponding Class of Notes) and MT-Accrual
Interest (subject to a cap of 0.00%). The Pass-Through Rate of the
Class C
Certificates shall be a rate sufficient to entitle it to all interest
accrued on home equity loans less the interest accrued on the other
interests issued by the Master REMIC. The Class C Distributable
Amount for any Payment Date is payable from current interest on the
Mortgage Loans to the extent not used to increase overcollateralization
and any related amount of overcollateralization released for that
Payment
Date.
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The
foregoing REMIC structure is intended to cause all of the cash from the Mortgage
Loans to flow through to the Master REMIC as cash flow on a REMIC regular
interest, without creating any shortfall—actual or potential (other than for
credit losses) to any REMIC regular interest.
For
any
purpose for which the interest rate in respect of any Lower Tier REMIC regular
interest created hereunder is calculated, the interest rate on the Mortgage
Loans shall be appropriately adjusted to account for the difference between
the
monthly day count convention of the Mortgage Loans and the monthly day count
convention of the regular interests issued by each of the REMICs. For purposes
of calculating the interest rates for each of the interests issued by REMIC,
such rates shall be adjusted to equal a monthly day count convention based
on a
30 day month for each Interest Period and a 360 day year so that the Mortgage
Loans and all regular interests will be using the same monthly day count
convention.
Section
3.12
|
Tax
Matters.
|
(a) The
assets of the Trust with respect to which a REMIC election is to be made as
provided in Section 3.11 are intended to be a real estate mortgage investment
conduit as defined in and in accordance with the REMIC Provisions, and the
affairs of the Trust shall be conducted so that each REMIC created pursuant
to
Section 3.11 qualifies as a real estate mortgage investment conduit as defined
in the REMIC Provisions.
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(b) The
Trust
shall require that the Indenture provide that the Indenture Trustee act as
agent
on behalf of the Trust and as such agent it shall:
(1) prepare
and file in a timely manner a U.S. Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit
Income Tax Return (Form 1066 or any successor form adopted by the Internal
Revenue Service) and prepare and file with the Internal Revenue Service and
applicable state or local tax authorities income tax or information returns
for
each taxable year for each REMIC as required by the Code or state or local
tax
laws, regulations, or rules, and furnish to the Holders of the Notes and the
Certificates any schedules, statements, or information required by the Code
or
state or local tax laws, regulations, or rules;
(2) within
thirty days of the Closing Date, furnish to the Internal Revenue Service, on
Forms 8811 or as otherwise may be required by the Code, the name, title,
address, and telephone number of the person that the Holders of the Notes and
the Certificates may contact for tax information relating to the Notes and
the
Certificates, together with such additional information as may be required
by
Form 8811, and update such information as required by the Code for the
Trust;
(3) make
elections on behalf of each REMIC to be treated as a REMIC on the federal tax
return of each REMIC for its first taxable year (and, if necessary, under
applicable state law);
(4) prepare
and forward to the Holders of the Notes and the Certificates and to the Internal
Revenue Service and, if necessary, state tax authorities, all information
returns and reports as and when required to be provided to them in accordance
with the REMIC Provisions, including the calculation of any original issue
discount;
(5) provide
any information necessary for the computation of any tax imposed on any transfer
of a Residual Certificate (the reasonable cost of computing and furnishing
such
information may be charged to the person liable for the tax);
(6) not
knowingly or intentionally take any action or omit to take any action that
would
cause the termination of the REMIC tax status of any REMIC;
(7) pay,
from
the sources specified in Section 3.12(c) of this Trust Agreement, any federal
or
state tax, including prohibited transaction taxes as described below, imposed
on
any REMIC before its termination when and as they become payable (but the
Indenture Trustee or any other appropriate person may contest any such tax
in
appropriate proceedings and the Indenture Trustee may withhold payment of the
tax, if permitted by law, pending the outcome of such proceedings);
(8) ensure
that federal, state, or local income tax or information returns are signed
as
required by the Code or state or local laws;
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(9) maintain
records relating to each REMIC necessary to prepare the foregoing returns,
schedules, statements, or information, including the income, expenses, assets,
and liabilities of each REMIC, and the fair market value and adjusted basis
of
the assets determined as required by the Code; and
(10) subject
to the succeeding sentence, represent, at the expense of the Sponsor, any REMIC
in any administrative or judicial proceedings relating to an examination or
audit by any governmental taxing authority, request an administrative adjustment
as to any taxable year of any REMIC, enter into settlement agreements with
any
governmental taxing agency, extend any statute of limitations relating to any
tax item of any REMIC, and otherwise act on behalf of any REMIC regarding any
tax matter involving it. The Indenture Trustee, as and when necessary
and appropriate, may agree to represent the trust in any administrative or
judicial proceedings relating to an examination or audit by any governmental
taxing authority, request an administrative adjustment as to any taxable year
of
the trust provided for herein, enter into settlement agreements with any
governmental taxing agency, extend any statute of limitation relating to any
tax
matter of the trust provided for herein, and otherwise act on behalf of the
trust provided for herein in relation to any tax matter involving the
trust. The fees for any representation or other assistance rendered
by the Indenture Trustee in connection with the tax-related services described
in the preceding sentence will be set forth in a separate agreement and payable
by the Sponsor, if necessary.
To
enable
the Indenture Trustee to perform its duties, the Issuer shall provide to the
Indenture Trustee within ten days after the Closing Date any information that
the Indenture Trustee requests in writing and determines to be relevant for
tax
purposes to the valuations and offering prices of the Notes and the
Certificates, including the price, yield, prepayment assumption, and projected
cash flows of the Notes and the Certificates and the Mortgage Loans. Thereafter,
the Issuer shall provide to the Indenture Trustee promptly upon written request
therefor, any additional information that the Indenture Trustee requests to
enable it to perform these duties.
(c) The
Trust
shall require that the Transaction Documents provide that if any tax is imposed
on “prohibited transactions” of any REMIC as defined in Section 860F(a)(2) of
the Code, on the “net income from foreclosure property” of a REMIC as defined in
section 860G(c) of the Code, on any contribution to a REMIC after the Startup
Day pursuant to Section 860G(d) of the Code, or any other tax is imposed on
any
REMIC (including any federal, state, or local tax), the tax shall be paid
by
• the
Indenture Trustee, if the tax arises out of a breach by the Indenture Trustee
of
any of its obligations described in Section 3.12(b) and included in the
Indenture,
• the
Master Servicer, in the case of any minimum tax imposed on any REMIC pursuant
to
Sections 23153 and 24874 of the California Revenue and Taxation Code, or if
the
tax arises out of a breach by the Master Servicer or a Seller of any of their
obligations under any Transaction Document,
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• the
Seller, if the tax arises out of the Seller’s obligation to repurchase a
Mortgage Loan pursuant to Section 2.02(b) or 2.04(d) of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, or
• in
all other cases, or if any liable party fails to honor its obligations to pay
the tax as provided above, the tax will be paid
FIRST,
from amounts otherwise to be distributed on the Class C
Certificates,
SECOND,
from amounts otherwise to be distributed on the Class R-1 Certificates,
and
THIRD,
from amounts otherwise to be distributed on the Notes as provided in the
Indenture.
(d) The
Indenture shall provide that the Indenture Trustee shall treat the rights of
the
holders of Principal Amount Notes to receive payments from the Basis Risk
Carryforward Reserve Fund as rights in a notional principal contract written
by
the Holders of the Class C Certificates in respect of any Basis Risk
Carryforward distributed in favor of the holders of the Principal Amount Notes.
Thus, the Principal Amount Notes and the Class C Certificates shall be treated
as representing ownership of not only Master REMIC regular interests, but also
ownership of an interest in an interest rate cap contract.
(e) The
Indenture shall provide that the Indenture Trustee shall treat the Basis Risk
Carryforward Reserve Fund as an outside reserve fund within the meaning of
Treasury Regulation 1.860G-2(h) that is owned by the Holders of the Class C
Certificates, and that is not an asset of any REMIC.
ARTICLE
4
ACTIONS
BY OWNER TRUSTEE
Section
4.01
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Prior
Notice to Certificateholders Regarding Certain
Matters.
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(a) The
Owner
Trustee shall give the Certificateholders thirty days' written notice before
taking any of the following actions on behalf of the Trust. Within thirty days
of the date of the notice the Certificateholders may instruct the Owner Trustee
in writing not to take the proposed action or may provide alternative direction.
Thirty days after giving the notice, if the Owner Trustee has not been
instructed otherwise by a majority in interest of the Holders of the
Certificates, then the Owner Trustee may:
(1) initiate
any claim or lawsuit by the Trust, or compromise any action, claim, or lawsuit
brought by or against the Trust;
(2) file
an
amendment to the Certificate of Trust;
(3) amend
the
Indenture by a supplemental indenture in circumstances where the consent of
any
Noteholder is required;
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(4) amend
the
Indenture by a supplemental indenture in circumstances where the consent of
any
Noteholder is not required, but the amendment materially adversely affects
the
interests of the Certificateholders;
(5) amend
the
Administration Agreement; and
(6) appoint
a
successor Certificate Paying Agent, Certificate Registrar, Administrator, or
Indenture Trustee under the Indenture, or consent to the assignment by the
Transfer Agent and Registrar, Administrator, or Indenture Trustee of its
obligations under the Indenture.
If
the
Trust has more than one holder of its Certificates, then the Holders may only
give instructions that are agreed to by the majority of the Holders (based
on
the Holders’ percentage ownership of the entire Certificate
Interest).
(b) Notwithstanding
Section 4.01(a), without prior notice to the Certificateholders the Owner
Trustee may, on behalf of the Trust:
(1) initiate
a claim or lawsuit by the Trust for collection of Assets;
(2) file
an
amendment to the Certificate of Trust whenever the amendment is required by
the
Statutory Trust Statute; or
(3) amend
the
Administration Agreement to cure any ambiguity or mistake or effect any other
amendment that would not materially adversely affect the interests of the
Certificateholders.
The
foregoing provisions of this Section 4.01 do not create a duty on the part
of
the Owner Trustee to take any of the actions described above.
Section
4.02
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Action
by Certificateholders Regarding Certain
Matters.
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Except
when directed by the Certificateholders and with the prior written consent
of
the Credit Enhancer in the case of (a), (b), or (c) below, the Owner Trustee
may
not (a) remove the Administrator pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Administration
Agreement, (b) appoint a successor Administrator pursuant to Section 7(e) of
the
Administration Agreement, (c) remove the Master Servicer under the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, or (d) except as expressly provided in the Indenture,
sell
Assets after the termination of the Indenture.
Section
4.03
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Action
by Certificateholders Regarding
Bankruptcy.
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Except
upon delivery to the Owner Trustee by each Certificateholder of a certificate
certifying that the Certificateholder reasonably believes that the Trust is
insolvent, the Owner Trustee may not commence a voluntary proceeding in
bankruptcy relating to the Trust.
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Section
4.04
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Restrictions
on Certificateholder’s
Power.
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A
Certificateholder shall not direct the Owner Trustee to take or to refrain
from
taking any action if that action or inaction would be contrary to any obligation
of the Trust, or the Owner Trustee under this Agreement or any of the other
Transaction Documents or would be contrary to Section 2.03. The Owner Trustee
shall not be obligated to follow that direction if given.
Section
4.05
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Majority
Interest.
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Except
as
expressly provided in this Agreement, any action that may be taken by the
Certificateholders under this Agreement shall be taken by Certificateholders
by
a majority of the holders voting per capita.
ARTICLE
5
APPLICATION
OF TRUST FUNDS; CERTAIN DUTIES
Section
5.01
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Application
of Trust Funds.
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(a) On
each
Distribution Date, the Certificate Paying Agent shall distribute to the
Certificateholders any funds made available to it under Section 8.01 or 8.03
of
the Indenture
(1) on
the
first Distribution Date, to the Holders of the Class R-2 Certificates in
reduction of their certificate principal balance any funds distributed to the
Issuer pursuant to Section 8.01(d) of the Indenture;
(2) if
the
funds are for Net Draw Principal Payments pursuant to Section 8.03(e)(i) of
the
Indenture, to the Holders of the Class R-1 Certificate until the Class R-1
Balance is reduced to zero,
(3) if
the
funds are distributed pursuant to Section 8.03(g)(iv) of the Indenture, to
the
Holders of the Class E-P Certificate any remaining Charged-Off Mortgage Loan
Proceeds;
(4) if
the
funds are distributed pursuant to Section 8.03(e)(iii) of the Indenture, to
the
Holders of the Class C Certificate until the Class C Balance is reduced to
zero,
and any remaining amount to the Holders of the Class C Certificate;
(5) to
the
Holders of the Class C Certificate in an amount equal to the Class C Share
of
the funds that are distributed to the Issuer pursuant to Section 8.03(a)(x)
of
the Indenture;
(6) to
the
Holders of the Class R-1 Certificate in an amount equal to the Class R-1 Share
of the distribution if the funds are distributed to the Issuer pursuant to
Section 8.03(a)(x) of the Indenture;
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(7) to
the
Holders of the Class C Certificate in an amount equal to the excess
of
• the
Class C Share of the distribution if the funds are distributed to the Issuer
pursuant to Section 8.03(e)(ii), over
• the
Subordinated Transferor Collections for that Payment Date; and
(8) to
the
Holders of the Class R-1 Certificate the excess of any amount distributed to
the
Issuer pursuant to Section 8.03(e)(ii) over the amount to be distributed to
the
Holder of the Class C Certificate in Subsection (7) above.
(b) If
any
withholding tax is imposed on the Trust’s payment (or allocations of income) to
the Certificateholders, the withholding tax shall reduce the amount otherwise
distributable to the Certificateholders in accordance with this Section. The
Certificate Paying Agent is authorized and directed to retain from amounts
otherwise distributable to the Certificateholders sufficient funds for the
payment of any tax that is legally owed by the Trust. This authorization shall
not prevent the Certificate Paying Agent from contesting any tax in appropriate
proceedings and withholding payment of the tax pending the outcome of the
proceedings if permitted by law. The amount of any withholding tax imposed
on
any distributions shall be treated as cash distributed to the Certificateholder
at the time it is withheld by the Trust and remitted to the appropriate taxing
authority. If withholding tax might be payable on a distribution to a non U.S.
Certificateholder, the Certificate Paying Agent may in its sole discretion
withhold an appropriate amount to cover that possibility.
(c) Any
Liquidation Loss Amount which is not Investor Loss Amount allocated to the
Certificates will be first allocated to the Class C Balance until it is reduced
to zero and then to the Class R-1 Balance until it is reduced to
zero.
Section
5.02
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Method
of Payment.
|
Distributions
required to be made to a Certificateholder on any Payment Date shall be made
by
wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account of the
Certificateholder at a bank or other entity having appropriate facilities if
the
Certificateholder so notifies the Certificate Registrar in writing at least
five
Business Days before the Payment Date. If appropriate notice is not given by
a
Certificateholder, then distributions to that Certificateholder shall be by
check mailed to it at its address in the Certificate Register.
ARTICLE
6
AUTHORITY
AND DUTIES OF OWNER TRUSTEE
Section
6.01
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General
Authority.
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The
Owner
Trustee is authorized and directed to execute and deliver the Transaction
Documents to which the Trust is to be a party and each other document
contemplated by the Transaction Documents in such form as the Depositor shall
approve, as evidenced conclusively by the Owner Trustee’s execution of it. In
addition to the foregoing, the Owner Trustee is authorized, but shall not be
obligated, to take all actions permitted or required of the Trust pursuant
to
the Transaction Documents. The Owner Trustee is further authorized to take
any
action the Administrator recommends regarding the Transaction
Documents.
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Section
6.02
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General
Duties.
|
The
Owner
Trustee shall discharge all of its responsibilities pursuant to this Agreement
and the other Transaction Documents to which the Trust is a party and administer
the Trust in the interest of the Certificateholders, subject to this Agreement
and the other Transaction Documents. The Owner Trustee shall be considered
to
have discharged its obligations under this Agreement and the other Transaction
Documents to the extent the Administrator has agreed in the Administration
Agreement to perform any act or to discharge any duty of the Owner Trustee
or
the Trust under this Agreement or any other Transaction Document. The Owner
Trustee shall not be liable for the failure of the Administrator to carry out
its obligations under the Administration Agreement or the other Transaction
Documents.
Section
6.03
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Action
on Instruction.
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(a) Subject
to Article IV and in accordance with the Transaction Documents, the
Certificateholders may by written instruction direct the Owner Trustee in the
management of the Trust. Such direction may be exercised at any time by written
instruction of the Certificateholders pursuant to Article IV.
(b) The
Owner
Trustee is not required to take any action under this Agreement or any other
Transaction Document if the Owner Trustee reasonably determines, or is advised
by counsel, that the action
(1) is
likely
to result in liability on the part of the Owner Trustee,
(2) is
contrary to the terms of this Agreement or of any other Transaction Document,
or
(3) is
contrary to law.
(c) Whenever
the Owner Trustee is
(1) unable
to
decide between alternative courses of action under this Agreement or any other
Transaction Document,
(2) unsure
about the application of any provision of this Agreement or any other
Transaction Document or it appears to be in conflict with any other applicable
provision, or
(3) if
this
Agreement permits any determination by the Owner Trustee or is silent or is
incomplete about the course of action that the Owner Trustee is required to
take
regarding a particular set of facts,
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the
Owner
Trustee may give appropriate notice to the Certificateholders requesting
instruction and, if the Owner Trustee in good faith follows any instructions
it
receives, the Owner Trustee shall not be liable to the Certificateholders on
account of its action or inaction. If the Owner Trustee has not received
appropriate instruction within ten days of the notice (or within any shorter
period necessary under the circumstances) it may, but shall be under no duty
to,
take or refrain from taking any action not inconsistent with this Agreement
or
the other Transaction Documents that it deems to be in the best interests of
the
Certificateholders, and shall have no liability to the Certificateholders for
its action or inaction.
(d) The
Owner
Trustee may enter into any amendment of any Transaction Document as to which
the
Rating Agency Condition is satisfied (without regard to the Policy, as defined
in the Indenture), and when so requested by the Certificateholders, the Owner
Trustee shall enter into any amendment of any Transaction
Documents:
(1) that
does
not impose further obligations or liabilities on the Owner Trustee,
(2) that
the
Credit Enhancer has consented to, and
(3) as
to
which either the Rating Agency Condition is satisfied or Holders of not less
than 66⅔% of the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Notes have
consented.
Section
6.04
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No
Duties Except as Specified in the Agreement or in
Instructions.
|
The
Owner
Trustee shall not have any duty to manage, make any payment on, register,
record, sell, dispose of, or otherwise deal with any Assets, or to otherwise
take or refrain from taking any action under any document contemplated by this
Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which the Trust is a party,
except as expressly provided by this Agreement or in any written instruction
received by the Owner Trustee under Section 6.03. No implied duties or
obligations shall be read into this Agreement or any other Transaction Document
against the Owner Trustee. The Owner Trustee shall have no responsibility for
filing any Financing or Continuation Statement in any public office at any
time
or otherwise to perfect or maintain the perfection of any security interest
or
lien granted to it under the Sale and Servicing Agreement or to prepare or
file
any filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the Trust or to
record this Agreement or any other Transaction Document. Wilmington Trust
Company, in its individual capacity, shall, at its own cost and expense,
promptly take all action necessary to discharge any liens on any part of any
Assets resulting from actions by, or claims against, Wilmington Trust Company,
in its individual capacity, that are not related to the ownership or the
administration of the Assets.
Section
6.05
|
No
Action Except Under Specified Documents or
Instructions.
|
The
Owner
Trustee shall not manage, control, use, sell, dispose of, or otherwise deal
with
any part of any Assets, except as provided in this Agreement, pursuant to the
other relevant Transaction Documents, and in accordance with any instruction
delivered to the Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 6.03.
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Section
6.06
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Restrictions.
|
The
Owner
Trustee shall not take any action that is inconsistent with the stated purposes
of the Trust in Section 2.03. The Certificateholders, by their acceptance of
their Certificates, agree not to direct the Owner Trustee to take action that
would violate the Agreement or any other Transaction Document.
ARTICLE
7
CONCERNING
OWNER TRUSTEE
Section
7.01
|
Acceptance
of Trusts and Duties.
|
The
Owner
Trustee accepts the trusts created by this Agreement and agrees to perform
its
duties under it. The Owner Trustee also agrees to disburse all moneys actually
received by it constituting part of any Assets on the terms of the Transaction
Documents. The Owner Trustee shall not be accountable under this Agreement
or
any other Transaction Document under any circumstances except (1) for its own
willful misconduct or gross negligence or (2) for the inaccuracy of any
representation or warranty in Section 7.03. In particular, but not in limitation
(and subject to the exceptions in the preceding sentence):
(a) The
Owner
Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by
a
Responsible Officer of the Owner Trustee.
(b) The
Owner
Trustee shall not be liable regarding any action taken or omitted to be taken
by
it in accordance with instructions from the Administrator or the
Certificateholders.
(c) No
provision of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document shall require
the
Owner Trustee to expend or risk its funds or otherwise incur any financial
liability in the performance of any of its rights under this Agreement or any
other Transaction Document if the Owner Trustee has reasonable grounds for
believing that repayment of those funds or adequate indemnity against the risk
or liability is not reasonably assured to it.
(d) Under
no
circumstances shall the Owner Trustee be liable for indebtedness under any
of
the Transaction Documents, including the principal and interest on any of
Notes.
(e) The
Owner
Trustee shall not be responsible for the validity or sufficiency of this
Agreement or for its due execution by the Depositor or for the form, character,
genuineness, sufficiency, value, or validity of any of the Assets, or for the
validity or sufficiency of the Transaction Documents, other than the certificate
of authentication on the Certificates.
(f) The
Owner
Trustee shall not be liable to any Noteholder or Certificateholder, other than
as expressly provided for in this Agreement or expressly agreed to in the other
Transaction Documents.
(g) The
Owner
Trustee shall not be liable for the default or misconduct of the Depositor,
the
Indenture Trustee, the Administrator, or the Master Servicer under any of the
Transaction Documents or otherwise. The Owner Trustee shall have no duty to
perform the obligations of the Trust or the Owner Trustee or any other person
under this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents that are required to
be
performed by the Administrator under the Administration Agreement, the Indenture
Trustee under the Indenture, the Master Servicer under the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, or the Depositor under the Sale and Servicing Agreement, or any
other
person under any other Transaction Document.
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(h) The
Owner
Trustee need not exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this
Agreement, or to institute, conduct, or defend any litigation under this
Agreement or any other Transaction Document or otherwise, at the request, order,
or direction of the Certificateholders, unless one or more Certificateholders
have offered to the Owner Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to it
against the costs and liabilities that may be incurred by the Owner Trustee
thereby.
(i) The
right
of the Owner Trustee to perform any discretionary act in this Agreement or
in
any other Transaction Document shall not be construed as a duty, and the Owner
Trustee shall not be answerable other than for its gross negligence or willful
misconduct in the performance of any discretionary act.
Section
7.02
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Furnishing
Documents.
|
The
Owner
Trustee shall furnish to the Certificateholders, promptly on written request,
copies of all reports, notices, requests, demands, certificates, financial
statements, and any other instruments furnished to the Owner Trustee under
the
Transaction Documents.
Section
7.03
|
Representations
and Warranties.
|
Wilmington
Trust Company hereby represents and warrants to the Depositor that:
(a) It
is a
banking corporation duly organized and validly existing in good standing under
the laws of the State of Delaware. It has all requisite corporate power and
authority to execute, deliver, and perform its obligations under this
Agreement.
(b) It
has
taken all corporate action necessary to authorize the execution and delivery
by
it of this Agreement, and this Agreement will be executed and delivered by
one
of its officers who is duly authorized to execute and deliver this Agreement
on
its behalf.
(c) Neither
the execution and delivery by it of this Agreement, nor the consummation by
it
of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, nor compliance by it with
any of the provisions of this Agreement will contravene any federal or Delaware
law, governmental rule, or regulation governing the banking or trust powers
of
the Owner Trustee, or any judgment or order binding on it, or constitute a
default under its charter documents or bylaws.
Section
7.04
|
Reliance;
Advice of Counsel.
|
(a) The
Owner
Trustee shall not be liable to anyone in acting under this Agreement on any
signature, instrument, notice, resolution, request, consent, order, certificate,
report, opinion, bond, or other document or paper believed by it to be genuine
or believed by it to be signed by the proper parties. The Owner Trustee may
accept a certified copy of a resolution of the board of directors or other
governing body of any corporate party as conclusive evidence that the resolution
has been duly adopted and that it is in full force and effect. As to any fact
or
matter the method of determination of which is not specifically prescribed
in
this Agreement, the Owner Trustee may for all purposes of this Agreement
conclusively rely on a certificate, signed by a Responsible Officer of the
relevant party, as to the fact or matter, and that certificate shall constitute
full protection to the Owner Trustee for any action taken or omitted to be
taken
by it in good faith in reliance on it.
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(b) In
the
exercise or administration of the trusts under this Agreement and in the
performance of its obligations under this Agreement or the other Transaction
Documents, the Owner Trustee (1) may act directly or through its agents or
attorneys under agreements entered into with any of them, and the Owner Trustee
shall not be liable for the conduct or misconduct of those agents or attorneys
if they were selected by the Owner Trustee with reasonable care and (2) may
consult with counsel, accountants, and other skilled persons it selects with
reasonable care. The Owner Trustee shall not be liable for anything done,
suffered, or omitted in good faith by it in accordance with the written opinion
or advice of any such counsel, accountants, or other persons.
Section
7.05
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Not
Acting in Individual
Capacity.
|
Except
as
provided in this Article, (1) in acting in the capacity of Owner Trustee
pursuant to the trusts created by this Agreement, Wilmington Trust Company
acts
solely as Owner Trustee under this Agreement and not in its individual capacity,
and (2) all persons having any claim against the Owner Trustee under this
Agreement or any other Transaction Document shall look only to the Assets for
payment or satisfaction of that claim.
Section
7.06
|
Owner
Trustee Not Liable for Certificates or Payment
Obligations.
|
The
recitals in this Agreement and in the Certificates (other than the signature
and
authentication of the Owner Trustee on the Certificates) shall be taken as
the
statements of the Depositor, and the Owner Trustee assumes no responsibility
for
their correctness. The Owner Trustee makes no representations as to the validity
or sufficiency of this Agreement, of any other Transaction Document, of the
Certificates (other than the signature and authentication of the Owner Trustee
on the Certificates), of any Mortgage Loan or related documents. The Owner
Trustee shall not have any responsibility for
(1) the
legality, validity, and enforceability of any Mortgage Loan, or
(2) the
perfection and priority of any security interest created in any Mortgage Loan
or
the maintenance of that perfection and priority, or
(3) the
sufficiency of the Assets or their ability to generate the payments to be
distributed under this Agreement or the Noteholders under the Indenture,
or
(4) the
performance or enforcement of any Mortgage Loan, or
(5) the
compliance by the Depositor or the Master Servicer with any warranty or
representation made under any Transaction Document or in any related document,
or
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(6) any
action of the Administrator, the Indenture Trustee, or the Master Servicer
or
any subservicer taken in the name of the Owner Trustee.
Section
7.07
|
Owner
Trustee May Own Notes.
|
Wilmington
Trust Company in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner
or
pledgee of the Notes and may deal with the Depositor, the Administrator, the
Indenture Trustee, and the Master Servicer in banking transactions with the
same
rights as it would have if it were not Owner Trustee.
ARTICLE
8
COMPENSATION
OF OWNER TRUSTEE
Section
8.01
|
Owner
Trustee’s Fees.
|
The
Owner
Trustee shall receive, as compensation for its services under this Agreement,
the Owner Trustee Fees.
Section
8.02
|
Reimbursement
and Indemnification.
|
(a) The
Owner
Trustee shall be entitled to be reimbursed for its reasonable expenses
(including reasonable attorneys’ fees) incurred in the performance of its duties
as Owner Trustee under this Agreement, except to the extent that such expenses
arise out of or result from
• the
Owner Trustee’s own willful misconduct, bad faith, or gross
negligence,
• the
inaccuracy of any of the Owner Trustee’s representations or warranties in
Section 7.03,
• taxes
based on or measured by any fees, commissions, or compensation received by
the
Owner Trustee for acting as such in connection with any of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement or any other Transaction Document,
or
• the
Owner Trustee’s failure to use reasonable care to receive, manage, and disburse
moneys actually received by it in accordance with this Agreement.
(b) The
Owner
Trustee is hereby indemnified against any liabilities, obligations, indemnity
obligations, losses (excluding loss of anticipated profits), damages, claims,
actions, suits, judgments, out of pocket costs, expenses, and disbursements
(including legal and consultants’ fees and expenses) and taxes of any kind
whatsoever (collectively, the “Liabilities”) that may
be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted at any time against it in any way
relating to or arising out of the Trust Estate, any of the properties included
in the Trust Estate, the administration of the Trust Estate, or any action
or
inaction of the Owner Trustee under this Agreement or under the Transaction
Documents, except to the extent that such Liabilities arise out of or result
from
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• the
Owner Trustee’s own willful misconduct, bad faith, or gross
negligence,
• the
inaccuracy of any of the Owner Trustee’s representations or warranties in
Section 7.03,
• taxes
based on or measured by any fees, commissions, or compensation received by
the
Owner Trustee for acting as such in connection with any of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement or any other Transaction Document,
or
• the
Owner Trustee’s failure to use reasonable care to receive, manage, and disburse
moneys actually received by it in accordance with this Agreement.
(c) Any
amounts payable to the Owner Trustee under this Section 8.02 shall be payable,
first, out of amounts on deposit in the Collection Account before payments
on
the Certificates, second, to the extent not paid pursuant to clause first within
60 days of first being incurred, by the Holder of the R-1 Certificates, and
third, to the extent not paid pursuant to clause first and second within 60
days
of first being incurred, by Countrywide Home Loans, Inc.
(d) The
indemnities in this Section 8.02 shall survive the termination of this Agreement
and the removal or resignation of the Owner Trustee under this
Agreement.
(e) Losses,
claims, damages, liabilities, and expenses in any way attributable to defaults
on the Mortgage Loans are excluded from the coverage of the provisions of this
Section.
Section
8.03
|
Payments
to Owner Trustee.
|
Any
amounts paid to the Owner Trustee pursuant to this Article shall not be a part
of the Assets immediately after their payment. All amounts then due to the
Owner
Trustee from the Trust, the Depositor, or the Master Servicer under any
Transaction Document shall be paid in full before any payments to the Depositor
or any holder of a Certificate.
ARTICLE
9
TERMINATION
OF AGREEMENT
Section
9.01
|
Termination
of Agreement.
|
(a) The
Trust
shall dissolve when the Trust has made the final distribution of all moneys
or
other property or proceeds of all Assets in accordance with the Transaction
Documents, and Article V. The bankruptcy, liquidation, or dissolution of any
Certificateholder shall not (x) terminate this Agreement or the Trust, (y)
entitle that Certificateholder’s legal representatives to obtain an accounting
or to take any action in any court for a partition or winding up of any part
of
the Trust or the Assets, or (z) otherwise affect the rights and obligations
of
the parties to this Agreement.
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(b) Except
as
provided in Section 9.01(a), neither the Depositor nor the Certificateholders
may dissolve, revoke, or terminate the Trust.
(c) On
the
winding up of the Trust and payment of all liabilities of the Trust in
accordance with Section 3808 of the Statutory Trust Statute, the Owner Trustee
shall cancel the Certificate of Trust by filing a certificate of cancellation
with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware in accordance with the
provisions of the Statutory Trust Statute. The Owner Trustee may rely on the
directions of the Administrator with respect to winding up the Trust. Thereupon,
this Agreement (other than Article VIII) and the Trust shall
terminate.
Section
9.02
|
Credit
Enhancer’s Rights Regarding Actions, Proceedings, or
Investigations.
|
Until
the
Notes have been paid in full, all amounts owed to the Credit Enhancer have
been
paid in full, the Insurance Agreement has terminated and the Policy has been
returned to the Credit Enhancer for cancellation, the following provisions
shall
apply:
(a) Notwithstanding
anything in this Agreement or in the other Transaction Documents to the
contrary, the Credit Enhancer shall have the right to participate in, to direct
the enforcement or defense of, and, at the Credit Enhancer’s sole option, to
institute or assume the defense of, any action, proceeding, or investigation
(other than foreclosure proceedings involving the Mortgage Loans and other
actions constituting ordinary servicing activities) that could adversely affect
the Trust or the rights or obligations of the Credit Enhancer under this
Agreement or under the Policy, including any insolvency or bankruptcy proceeding
in respect of the Trust. Following notice to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture
Trustee, the Credit Enhancer shall have exclusive right to determine, in its
sole discretion, the actions necessary to preserve and protect the Collateral,
the Issuer, and the Trust. All costs and expenses of the Credit Enhancer in
connection with such action, proceeding, or investigation, including any
judgment or settlement entered into affecting the Credit Enhancer or the Credit
Enhancer’s interests, shall be included in reimbursement amount owed to the
Credit Enhancer under Section 8.03(a)(v) and Section 8.03(a)(vii) of
the Indenture.
(b) In
connection with any action, proceeding, or investigation (other than foreclosure
proceedings involving the Mortgage Loans and other actions constituting ordinary
servicing activities) that could reasonably be expected to adversely affect
the
Collateral, the Issuer, the Trust, or the rights or obligations of the Credit
Enhancer under this Agreement or under the Policy or the Transaction Documents,
including any insolvency or bankruptcy proceeding in respect of the Master
Servicer, the Sponsor, the Depositor, the Issuer, the Trust, or any affiliate
of
any of them, the Owner Trustee agrees to cooperate with, and to take any action
directed by, the Credit Enhancer, including entering into agreements and
settlements as directed the Credit Enhancer, in its sole discretion, without
the
consent of any Certificateholder or any Noteholder.
(c) The
Owner
Trustee agrees to provide to the Credit Enhancer prompt written notice of any
action, proceeding, or investigation (other than foreclosure proceedings
involving the Mortgage Loans and other actions constituting ordinary servicing
activities) that names the Issuer, the Trust, or the Owner Trustee as a party
or
that could adversely affect the Collateral, the Issuer, the Trust, or the rights
or obligations of the Credit Enhancer under this Agreement or under the Policy
or the Transaction Documents, including any insolvency or bankruptcy proceeding
in respect of the Master Servicer, the Sponsor, the Depositor, the Issuer,
the
Trust, or any affiliate of any of them.
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(d) Notwithstanding
anything in this Agreement or in any of the other Transaction Documents to
the
contrary, the Owner Trustee shall not, without the Credit Enhancer’s prior
consent or unless directed by the Credit Enhancer, undertake or join any
litigation or agree to any settlement of any action, proceeding, or
investigation affecting the Collateral, the Issuer, the Trust, or the rights
or
obligations of the Credit Enhancer under this Agreement or under the Policy
or
the Transaction Documents (other than foreclosure proceedings involving the
Mortgage Loans and other actions constituting ordinary servicing
activities).
(e) Each
Certificateholder, by acceptance of its Certificate, and the Owner Trustee
agree
that Credit Enhancer shall have the rights provided in this Section, which
are
in addition to any rights of the Credit Enhancer pursuant to the other
provisions of the Transaction Documents, that the rights provided in this
Section may be exercised by the Credit Enhancer, in its sole discretion, without
the need for the consent or approval of any Certificateholder or the Owner
Trustee, notwithstanding any other provision in this Agreement or in any of
the
other Transaction Documents, and that nothing in this Section shall be deemed
to
be an obligation of the Credit Enhancer to exercise any of the rights provided
for in this Agreement.
(f) The
Owner
Trustee undertakes to perform or observe only such of the covenants and
obligations of the Owner Trustee as are expressly set forth in this Agreement,
and no implied covenants or obligations with respect to the Credit Enhancer
shall be read into this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents against
the
Owner Trustee. The Owner Trustee shall not be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty
to the Credit Enhancer, and shall not be liable in any event to the Credit
Enhancer as a result of the performance of its express obligations under this
Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall not be obligated to take any action at the
request or direction of the Credit Enhancer unless the Owner Trustee is
furnished with security or indemnification satisfactory to it against any loss,
liability, or expense in connection with the action.
Section
9.03
|
Rights
of the Credit Enhancer.
|
(a) Before
taking any of the actions specified in Section 4.01(a), the Owner Trustee shall
give the Credit Enhancer written notice at the same time that notice is given
to
the Certificateholders.
(b) Before
taking any of the actions specified in Section 4.01(b), the Owner Trustee shall
give the Credit Enhancer written notice of the proposed action.
(c) Upon
the
occurrence of an event described in Section 6.03(c), the Owner Trustee shall
give the Credit Enhancer written notice at the same time that notice is given
to
the Certificateholders.
(d) Any
successor Owner Trustee appointed by the Administrator pursuant to Section
10.01
shall be appointed only with the prior written consent of the Credit
Enhancer.
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(e) The
Owner
Trustee shall mail notice of any merger or consolidation or other action
described in Section 10.03 to the Credit Enhancer.
(f) Any
co
trustee or separate trustee appointed pursuant to Section 10.04 shall be
appointed only with the prior written consent of the Credit
Enhancer.
Promptly
after the execution of any amendment or consent, the Owner Trustee shall furnish
a copy of the amendment or consent to the Credit Enhancer.
ARTICLE
10
SUCCESSOR
OWNER TRUSTEES AND ADDITIONAL OWNER TRUSTEES
Section
10.01
|
Resignation
or Removal of Owner
Trustee.
|
The
Owner
Trustee may at any time resign and be discharged from the trusts created by
this
Agreement by giving written notice of resignation to the Administrator, and
the
Depositor. When it receives a notice of resignation, the Administrator shall
promptly appoint a successor Owner Trustee in writing delivered to the resigning
Owner Trustee and to the successor Owner Trustee. If no successor Owner Trustee
has been so appointed and assumed trusteeship within thirty days after the
notice of resignation, the resigning Owner Trustee may petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Owner
Trustee.
The
Administrator may remove the Owner Trustee if at any time the Owner Trustee
is
legally unable to act, or an Insolvency Event occurs with respect to the Owner
Trustee. If the Administrator removes the Owner Trustee under the authority
of
the preceding sentence, the Administrator shall promptly appoint a successor
Owner Trustee in writing delivered to the outgoing Owner Trustee and to the
successor Owner Trustee, and shall pay all fees and expenses owed to the
outgoing Owner Trustee.
Any
resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee and appointment of a successor
Owner
Trustee shall not become effective until acceptance of the appointment by the
successor Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 10.02 and payment of all fees and
expenses of the outgoing Owner Trustee. The Administrator shall provide notice
of any resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee to each of the Rating
Agencies, the Depositor, and the Credit Enhancer.
Section
10.02
|
Successor
Owner Trustee.
|
Any
successor Owner Trustee appointed pursuant to Section 10.01 shall execute and
deliver to the Administrator, the Depositor, and to the predecessor Owner
Trustee an instrument accepting appointment as trustee under this Agreement,
and
thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor Owner Trustee shall
become effective. The successor Owner Trustee shall become fully vested with
all
the rights and obligations of its predecessor under this Agreement, with like
effect as if originally named as Owner Trustee without any further act, deed,
or
conveyance. The predecessor Owner Trustee shall promptly deliver to the
successor Owner Trustee all documents, statements, and monies held by it under
this Agreement. The Administrator and the predecessor Owner Trustee shall
execute and deliver any instruments and do anything else for fully and certainly
vesting and confirming in the successor Owner Trustee all rights and obligations
under this Agreement.
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When
a
successor Owner Trustee accepts its appointment pursuant to this Section, the
Administrator shall mail notice of the change in trustee to the
Certificateholders, the Depositor, the Indenture Trustee, the Noteholders,
the
Credit Enhancer, and the Rating Agencies. If the Administrator fails to mail
that notice within ten days after acceptance of appointment by the successor
Owner Trustee, the successor Owner Trustee shall mail that notice at the expense
of the Administrator.
The
successor Owner Trustee shall file an amendment to the Certificate of Trust
with
the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware identifying the name and
principal place of business in the State of Delaware of the successor Owner
Trustee.
Section
10.03
|
Merger
or Consolidation of Owner
Trustee.
|
Any
person into which the Owner Trustee may be merged or converted or with which
it
may be consolidated, or any person resulting from any merger, conversion, or
consolidation to which the Owner Trustee is a party, or any person succeeding
to
all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Owner Trustee,
shall be the successor of the Owner Trustee under this Agreement without the
execution or filing of any instrument or any further act on the part of any
of
the parties to this Agreement, anything to the contrary notwithstanding. The
Owner Trustee shall mail notice of the merger or consolidation or other action
to each Rating Agency and the Credit Enhancer.
Section
10.04
|
Appointment
of Co Trustee or Separate
Trustee.
|
Notwithstanding
any other provisions of this Agreement, at any time, for the purpose of meeting
any legal requirements of any jurisdiction in which any part of the Assets
may
at any time be located, the Administrator and the Owner Trustee acting jointly
shall execute and deliver all instruments to appoint persons approved by the
Administrator, and Owner Trustee to act as co trustee, jointly with the Owner
Trustee, or as separate trustee, of all or any part of the Assets, and to vest
in that person, in that capacity, such title to the Assets or any part thereof
and, subject to the other provisions of this Section, such rights and
obligations as the Administrator and the Owner Trustee consider appropriate.
If
the Administrator has not joined in the appointment within fifteen days after
the receipt by it of a request so to do, the Owner Trustee alone may make the
appointment. No notice of the appointment of any co trustee or separate trustee
shall be required pursuant to Section 10.02.
Each
separate trustee and co trustee shall be appointed and act subject to the
following provisions and conditions:
(a) All
rights and obligations conferred or imposed on the Owner Trustee shall be
conferred on and exercised or performed by the Owner Trustee and the separate
trustee or co trustee jointly (the separate trustee or co trustee is not
authorized to act separately without the Owner Trustee joining in the act),
except to the extent that under applicable law the Owner Trustee is incompetent
or unqualified to perform the acts, in which case those rights and obligations
(including the holding of title to the Assets or any portion of them in that
jurisdiction) shall be exercised and performed singly by the separate trustee
or
co trustee, but solely at the direction of the Owner Trustee;
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(b) No
trustee under this Agreement shall be personally liable for any act or omission
of any other trustee under this Agreement; and
(c) The
Administrator and the Owner Trustee acting jointly may at any time accept the
resignation of or remove any separate trustee or co trustee.
Any
notice, request, or other writing given to the Owner Trustee shall be considered
to have been given to each of the then separate trustees and co trustees, as
effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument appointing any
separate trustee or co trustee shall refer to the conditions of this Article.
Each separate trustee and co trustee, upon its acceptance of the trusts
conferred, shall be vested with the estates or property specified in its
instrument of appointment, either jointly with the Owner Trustee or separately,
as may be provided in the instrument of appointment. Each instrument of
appointment shall be filed with the Owner Trustee and a copy of it given to
the
Administrator.
Any
separate trustee or co trustee may at any time appoint the Owner Trustee as
its
agent or attorney in fact with full power and authority, to the extent not
prohibited by law, to do any lawful act with respect to this Agreement on its
behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee or co trustee shall die, become
incapable of acting, resign, or be removed, all of its estates, properties,
rights, and obligations shall vest in and be exercised by the Owner Trustee,
to
the extent permitted by law, without the appointment of a new or successor
co
trustee or separate trustee.
ARTICLE
11
MISCELLANEOUS
Section
11.01
|
Supplements
and Amendments.
|
(a) This
Agreement may be amended in any way by the Depositor and the Owner Trustee,
with
the consent of any affected Certificateholder and the Credit Enhancer, but
only
if the Rating Agency Condition is satisfied and the amendment would not cause
any adverse tax event for any Noteholder. In addition, if the Owner Indenture
Trustee has been provided an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such action
is necessary or helpful to, as applicable, maintain such qualification, avoid
or
minimize the risk of the imposition of such a tax, or comply with any such
requirements of the Code, then this Agreement may be amended by the Depositor
and the Owner Trustee, with the consent of the Credit Enhancer but without
the
consent of any Certificateholder,
(1) to
modify, eliminate, or add to the provisions of this Agreement to the extent
appropriate to maintain the qualification of the Trust as a REMIC under the
Code,
(2) to
avoid
or minimize the risk of the imposition of any tax on the Trust pursuant to
the
Code that would be a claim against the Trust at any time before the final
redemption of the Certificates, or
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(3) to
comply
with any other requirements of the Code.
Promptly
after the execution of any amendment or consent, the Owner Trustee shall furnish
a copy of the amendment or consent to the Certificateholders, the Credit
Enhancer, the Indenture Trustee, and each Rating Agency.
Promptly
after the execution of any amendment to the Certificate of Trust, the Owner
Trustee shall cause its filing with the Secretary of State of the State of
Delaware.
The
Owner
Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any amendment that
affects the Owner Trustee’s own rights or obligations under this Agreement or
otherwise.
Notwithstanding
any contrary provision of this Agreement, the Owner Trustee shall not consent
to
any amendment to this Agreement unless it shall have first received an Opinion
of Counsel to the effect that the amendment will not cause the imposition of
any
tax on any REMIC or the Certificateholders or cause any REMIC to fail to qualify
as a REMIC at any time that any Certificates are outstanding. In connection
with
the execution of any amendment to this Agreement, the Certificate of Trust,
or
any amendment of any other agreement to which the Trust is a party, the Owner
Trustee shall be entitled to receive and conclusively rely upon an Opinion
of
Counsel to the effect that the amendment is authorized or permitted by this
Agreement and the Transaction Documents.
(b) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in this Agreement, before the issuance of the Notes
the
Certificateholders may amend this Agreement without the consent of any other
party. Promptly after the execution of any amendment pursuant to this paragraph,
the Certificateholders shall furnish a copy of the amendment to the Owner
Trustee and the Credit Enhancer.
Section
11.02
|
Limitations
on Rights of Others.
|
The
provisions of this Agreement are solely for the benefit of the Owner Trustee,
the Depositor, the Certificateholders, the Administrator, and, to the extent
expressly provided in this Agreement, the Indenture Trustee, the Credit
Enhancer, and the Noteholders, and nothing in this Agreement, whether express
or
implied, shall be construed to give to any other person any legal or equitable
interest in the Assets or under this Agreement.
Section
11.03
|
Notices.
|
(a) Except
where telephonic instructions or notices are specifically authorized, all
notices, demands, instructions, consents, and other communications required
or
permitted under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be personally
delivered or sent by first class or express mail (postage prepaid), national
overnight courier service, or by facsimile transmission or other electronic
communication device capable of transmitting or creating a written record
(confirmed by first class mail) and shall be considered to be given for purposes
of this Agreement on the day that the writing is delivered to its intended
recipient. Unless otherwise specified in a notice sent or delivered in
accordance with this Section, notices, demands, instructions, and other
communications in writing shall be given to or made on the respective parties
at
their respective addresses indicated in the Adoption Annex attached to the
Indenture, and, in the case of telephonic instructions or notices, by calling
the telephone number indicated for the party therein.
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(b) Any
notice required or permitted to be given to the Certificateholders shall be
given by first class mail, postage prepaid, at the addresses of the
Certificateholders. Any notice so mailed within the time prescribed in this
Agreement shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or
not
the Certificateholder receives the notice.
Section
11.04
|
Severability.
|
Any
provision of this Agreement that is prohibited or unenforceable in any
jurisdiction shall, as to that jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of
the
prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions
of
this Agreement, and that prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction
shall not invalidate or render unenforceable the provision in any other
jurisdiction.
Section
11.05
|
Separate
Counterparts.
|
This
Agreement may be executed by the parties to this Agreement in separate
counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be an original,
but all the counterparts shall together constitute but one
instrument.
Section
11.06
|
Successors
and Assigns.
|
All
covenants and agreements in this Agreement shall be binding on, and inure to
the
benefit of, each of the Depositor and its permitted assignees, the Owner Trustee
and its successors, and each Certificateholder and any of its successors, all
as
provided in this Agreement. Any request, notice, direction, consent, waiver
or
other instrument or action by any Certificateholder shall bind its
successors.
Section
11.07
|
Nonpetition
Covenant.
|
Notwithstanding
any prior termination of this Agreement, the Depositor and the Owner Trustee,
by
entering into this Agreement, and each Certificateholder, by accepting a
Certificate, agree that they shall not, before the date that is one year and
one
day after the termination of the Agreement, file or participate in the filing
of
any petition against the Trust that could cause the Trust to incur an Insolvency
Event. Nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the Owner Trustee from
participating in or filing proofs of claim in any such proceeding instituted
by
any other person.
Section
11.08
|
No
Recourse.
|
Each
Certificateholder by accepting a Certificate acknowledges that the Certificate
represents the beneficial interest in the Trust only and does not represent
interests in or obligations of the Depositor, the Servicer, the Administrator,
the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, or any Affiliate of any of them and
no
recourse may be had against those parties or their assets, except as may be
expressly stated or contemplated in this Agreement, the other Transaction
Documents, or the Certificates.
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Section
11.09
|
Headings.
|
The
headings of the various Articles and Sections in this Agreement are for
convenience of reference only and shall not define or limit any of the
provisions of this Agreement.
Section
11.10
|
Governing
Law.
|
THIS
AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF
THE
STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS PROVISIONS THAT WOULD RESULT IN
THE
APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION.
Section
11.11
|
Rule
144A Information.
|
As
long
as any of the securities of this Trust are “restricted securities” within the
meaning of Rule 144(a)(3) under the Securities Act, the Administrator on behalf
of the Trust shall provide to any Noteholder or Certificateholder and to any
prospective purchaser from any of them designated by any of them on the request
of the Noteholder, Certificateholder, or prospective purchaser, any information
required to be provided the holder or prospective purchaser to satisfy the
conditions of Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act.
Section
11.12
|
Third-Party
Beneficiary.
|
The
Credit Enhancer is a third-party beneficiary of this Agreement and is entitled
to the rights and benefits given to it under this Agreement as if it were a
party to this Agreement.
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties to this Agreement have caused this Agreement to
be
duly executed by their respective officers hereunto duly authorized, as of
the
day and year first above written.
CWHEQ,
INC.
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Depositor
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By:
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/s/
Xxxxxx Xxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx
Xxxxx
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||
Title: Executive
Vice President
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||
WILMINGTON
TRUST COMPANY
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||
By:
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/s/
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxx
X. Xxxxx
|
||
Title: Financial
Services Officer
|
||
COUNTRYWIDE
HOME LOANS, INC.
|
||
Master
Servicer
|
||
With
respect to Article 8
only
|
||
By:
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/s/
Xxxxxx Xxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx
Xxxxx
|
||
Title: Executive
Vice President
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EXHIBIT
A
FORM
OF
CERTIFICATE OF TRUST OF
CWHEQ
REVOLVING HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST, SERIES 200[__]-[__]
This
Certificate of Trust of CWHEQ Revolving Home Equity Loan Trust, Series
200[__]-[__] (the “Trust”), dated [_____], 200[__], is being
duly executed and filed by Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware banking
corporation, as trustee, to form a statutory trust under the Delaware Statutory
Trust Act (12 Del. Code, § 3801 et seq.) (the
“Act”).
1. Name. The
name of the statutory trust is CWHEQ Revolving Home Equity Loan Trust, Series
200[__]-[__].
2. Delaware
Trustee. The name and business address of the trustee of the
Trust in the State of Delaware is Wilmington Trust Company, [________________],
[_________], Delaware _____, Attention: [________________].
3. Effective
Date. This Certificate of Trust shall be effective upon its
filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware.
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Certificate of Trust in
accordance with Section 3811(a)(1) of the Act.
Address:
Xxxxxx
Square North
0000
Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx,
XX 00000
Attention:
Corporate Trust Administration
|
WILMINGTON
TRUST COMPANY,
not
in its individual capacity,
but
solely as owner trustee
|
|
By:
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||
Name:
|
||
Title:
|
X-0-0
XXXXXXX
X-0
[FORM
OF]
CLASS C CERTIFICATE
This
certificate has not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act
of
1933, as amended, or the securities laws of any state and may not be resold
or
transferred unless it is registered pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933
and
the securities laws of any state or is sold or transferred in transactions
that
are exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933 and under
applicable state law and is transferred in accordance with Section 3.10 of
the
Trust Agreement related to CWHEQ Revolving Home Equity Loan Trust, Series
200[__]-[__]. Neither this certificate nor any interest in it may be transferred
unless the transferee delivers to the trustee either a representation letter
to
the effect that the transferee is not an employee benefit plan subject to the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, a plan subject
to
Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), or a
person acting on behalf of or using the assets of any such plan; or an opinion
of counsel in accordance with Section 3.10(c) of the Trust Agreement related
to
CWHEQ Revolving Home Equity Loan Trust, Series 200[__]-[__]. Notwithstanding
anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of this certificate
to or on behalf of an employee benefit plan subject to ERISA or to Section
4975
of the Code without the opinion of counsel satisfactory to the trustee as
described above shall be void.
Solely
for U.S. federal income tax purposes, this certificate is a “regular interest”
in a “Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit” as those terms are defined,
respectively, in Sections 860G and 860D of the Code.
B-1-1
Date
of Trust Agreement
|
:
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[______],
200[__]
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Cut
off Date
|
:
|
[______],
200[__]
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Notional
Amount
|
:
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[_______]
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Certificate
No.
|
:
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[_______]
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First
Distribution Date
|
:
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[_______]
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REVOLVING
HOME EQUITY LOAN ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATE
CWHEQ
REVOLVING HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST, SERIES 200[__]-[__]
Class
C
Certificate
evidencing
a percentage interest in the distributions allocable to the Class C Certificates
evidencing an undivided interest in a trust consisting primarily of a pool
of
adjustable rate home equity revolving credit line Mortgage Loans sold
by
CWHEQ,
INC.
This
Certificate does not represent an obligation of or interest in CWHEQ, Inc.
(the
“Depositor”), Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., or the Owner Trustee or any of their
affiliates. Neither this Certificate nor the underlying Assets are guaranteed
or
insured by any governmental agency or instrumentality.
This
certifies that [____________________________] is the registered owner of the
Percentage Interest evidenced by this Certificate in the entire interest in
the
CWHEQ Revolving Home Equity Loan Trust, Series 200[__]-[__] (the “Trust”),
consisting primarily of a pool of Mortgage Loans (the “Mortgage Loans”)
transferred by the Depositor and serviced by Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. (in
that capacity, the “Master Servicer”). The Trust was formed pursuant to the
Trust Agreement, dated as of [_____], 200[__] (the “Agreement”), between the
Depositor and Wilmington Trust Company, as trustee (the “Owner Trustee”), a
summary of some of the pertinent provisions of which follows. Capitalized terms
used in this Certificate without definition have the meanings assigned in the
Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement. This Certificate is issued under
and is subject to the Agreement. The Holder of this Certificate by virtue of
the
acceptance of it agrees to be bound by the Agreement.
This
Certificate is one of the Certificates from a duly authorized issue of
Certificates designated as Revolving Home Equity Loan Asset Backed Certificates,
Series 200[__]-[__], representing, to the extent specified in the Agreement,
an
undivided interest in:
(1) each
Mortgage Loan, including its Asset Balance (including all Additional Balances),
the related Mortgage File, all property that secures the Mortgage Loans, and
all
collections received on it after the Cut off Date (excluding payments due by
the
Cut off Date);
(2) property
that secured a Mortgage Loan that is acquired by foreclosure or deed in lieu
of
foreclosure;
(3) the
Depositor’s rights under the Purchase Agreement;
B-1-2
(4) the
Depositor’s rights under the hazard insurance policies covering Mortgaged
Properties; and
(5) certain
other property described in the Agreement and Section 2.01 of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement (collectively, the “Assets”).
A
first
priority security interest in all the Assets has been granted to the Indenture
Trustee under the Indenture.
The
Certificateholder, by its acceptance of this Certificate, agrees that it will
look solely to the funds available under the Agreement for payment of this
Certificate and that the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity is not
personally liable to the Certificateholders for any amount payable under this
Certificate or the Agreement or, except as expressly provided in the Agreement,
subject to any liability under the Agreement.
This
Certificate does not purport to summarize the Agreement and reference is made
to
the Agreement for the interests, rights, and limitations of rights and
obligations evidenced by this Certificate, and the rights and obligations of
the
Owner Trustee.
The
Agreement may be amended in any way by the Depositor and the Owner Trustee,
with
the consent of any affected Certificateholder and the Credit Enhancer but only
if the Rating Agency Condition is satisfied and the amendment would not cause
any adverse tax event for any Noteholder.
No
transfer of this Certificate shall be made unless the transfer is exempt from
the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Act”) and any
applicable state securities laws or is made in accordance with the Act and
those
laws. In connection with any transfer of this Certificate, the Owner Trustee
will require either:
(i) the
transferee to execute an investment letter acceptable to and in form and
substance satisfactory to the Owner Trustee certifying to the Owner Trustee
the
facts surrounding the transfer, which investment letter shall not be an expense
of the Owner Trustee or
(ii) an
Opinion of Counsel acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to
the
Owner Trustee and the Depositor that the transfer may be made pursuant to an
exemption from the Act, describing the applicable exemption and its basis,
or is
being made pursuant to the Act, which Opinion of Counsel shall not be an expense
of the Owner Trustee or the Depositor.
In
connection with any transfer of this Certificate, the holder transferring this
Certificate shall indemnify the Trust against any liability that may result
if
the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with any federal
and
state laws.
Neither
this Certificate nor any legal or beneficial interest in it may be, directly
or
indirectly, purchased, transferred, sold, pledged, assigned, or otherwise
disposed of, and any proposed transferee of this Certificate shall not become
its registered Holder, unless the conditions in Section 3.10 of the Agreement
are satisfied.
B-1-3
No
service charge shall be made for the registration of transfer or exchange of
this Certificate, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require
payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may
be
imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of this
Certificate.
The
Owner
Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, and any Certificate Paying Agent will treat
the person in whose name this Certificate is registered in the Certificate
Register as its owner for the purpose of receiving distributions pursuant to
Section 5.02 of the Agreement and for all other purposes whatsoever, and none
of
the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, and any Certificate Paying Agent
shall be bound by any notice to the contrary.
The
obligations created by the Agreement will terminate and this Certificate will
be
retired and the Trust will be dissolved when the Trust has made the final
distribution of all moneys or other property or proceeds of all Assets in
accordance with the Transaction Documents and Article V of the Agreement. The
Holder of the R-1 Certificates, with the consent of the Credit Enhancer, may
effect the transfer of all the Mortgage Loans at their termination purchase
price on any Payment Date on or after which the aggregate Note Principal Balance
of the Principal Amount Notes is less than or equal to 10% of the Original
Note
Principal Balance of the Principal Amount Notes. This transfer will result
in
the termination of the Agreement and the dissolution of the Trust.
B-1-4
Unless
the certificate of authentication on this Certificate has been executed by
the
Certificate Registrar by manual signature, this Certificate shall not be
entitled to any benefit under the Agreement, or be valid for any
purpose.
Dated:
[________________]
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CWHEQ
Revolving Home Equity Loan Trust,
Series
200[__]-[__]
|
|||
By:
|
Wilmington
Trust Company,
not
in its individual capacity but
solely
as Owner Trustee
|
||
By:
|
|||
Name:
|
|||
Title:
|
|||
Certificate
of Authentication:
This
is one of the Certificates
referenced
in the within mentioned Agreement.
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THE
BANK OF NEW YORK,
as
Indenture Trustee
|
|||
By:
|
|||
Authorized
Officer
|
B-1-5
EXHIBIT
B-2
[FORM
OF]
CLASS E-P CERTIFICATE
This
certificate has not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act
of
1933, as amended, or the securities laws of any state and may not be resold
or
transferred unless it is registered pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933
and
the securities laws of any state or is sold or transferred in transactions
that
are exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933 and under
applicable state law and is transferred in accordance with Section 3.10 of
the
Trust Agreement related to CWHEQ Revolving Home Equity Loan Trust, Series
200[__]-[__]. Neither this certificate nor any interest in it may be transferred
unless the transferee delivers to the trustee either a representation letter
to
the effect that the transferee is not an employee benefit plan subject to the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, a plan subject
to
Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), or a
person acting on behalf of or using the assets of any such plan; or an opinion
of counsel in accordance with Section 3.10(c) of the Trust Agreement related
to
CWHEQ Revolving Home Equity Loan Trust, Series 200[__]-[__]. Notwithstanding
anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of this certificate
to or on behalf of an employee benefit plan subject to ERISA or to Section
4975
of the Code without the opinion of counsel satisfactory to the trustee as
described above shall be void.
Solely
for U.S. federal income tax purposes, this certificate is a “regular interest”
in a “Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit” as those terms are defined,
respectively, in Sections 860G and 860D of the Code.
This
Class E-P Certificate will not be entitled to payments until such time as
described in the Trust Agreement and the Indenture.
B-2-1
Date
of Trust Agreement
|
:
|
[____________],
200[__]
|
Cut
off Date
|
:
|
[____________],
200[__]
|
Percentage
Interest
|
:
|
100%
|
Certificate
No.
|
:
|
[____________]
|
First
Distribution Date
|
:
|
[____________],
200[__]
|
REVOLVING
HOME EQUITY LOAN ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATE
CWHEQ
REVOLVING HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST, SERIES 200[__] [__]
Class
E-P
Certificate
evidencing
a percentage interest in the distributions allocable to the Class E-P
Certificates evidencing an undivided interest in a trust consisting primarily
of
a pool of adjustable rate home equity revolving credit line Mortgage Loans
sold
by
CWHEQ,
INC.
This
Certificate does not represent an obligation of or an interest in, and is not
guaranteed by CWHEQ, Inc. (the “Depositor”), Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., or
the Owner Trustee or any of their affiliates. Neither this Certificate nor
the
underlying Assets are guaranteed or insured by any governmental agency or
instrumentality.
This
certifies that [____________________________] is the registered owner of the
Percentage Interest evidenced by this Certificate in certain monthly
distribution in the CWHEQ Revolving Home Equity Loan Trust, Series 200[__]
[__]
(the “Trust”), consisting primarily of a pool of Mortgage Loans (the “Mortgage
Loans”) transferred by the Depositor and serviced by Countrywide Home Loans,
Inc. (in that capacity, the “Master Servicer”). The Trust was formed pursuant to
the Trust Agreement, dated as of [_____], 200[__] (the “Agreement”), between the
Depositor and Wilmington Trust Company, as trustee (the “Owner Trustee”), a
summary of some of the pertinent provisions of which follows. Capitalized terms
used in this Certificate without definition have the meanings assigned in the
Agreement, in the Transfer Affidavit attached thereto as Annex 1 to Exhibit
C-2,
or the Sale and Servicing Agreement. This Certificate is issued under and is
subject to the Agreement. The Holder of this Certificate by virtue of the
acceptance of it agrees to be bound by the Agreement.
This
Certificate is one of the Certificates from a duly authorized issue of
Certificates designated as Revolving Home Equity Loan Asset Backed Certificates,
Series 200[__] [__], representing, to the extent specified in the Agreement,
an
undivided interest in:
(i) each
Mortgage Loan, including its Asset Balance (including all Additional Balances),
the related Mortgage File, all property that secures the Mortgage Loans, and
all
collections received on it after the Cut off Date (excluding payments due by
the
Cut off Date);
(ii) property
that secured a Mortgage Loan that is acquired by foreclosure or deed in lieu
of
foreclosure;
B-2-2
(iii) the
Depositor’s rights under the Purchase Agreement;
(iv) the
Depositor’s rights under the hazard insurance policies covering Mortgaged
Properties; and
(v) certain
other property described in the Agreement and Section 2.01 of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement (collectively, the “Assets”).
A
first
priority security interest in all the Assets has been granted to the Indenture
Trustee under the Indenture.
The
Certificateholder, by its acceptance of this Certificate, agrees that it will
look solely to the funds available under the Agreement for payment of this
Certificate and that the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity is not
personally liable to the Certificateholders for any amount payable under this
Certificate or the Agreement or, except as expressly provided in the Agreement,
subject to any liability under the Agreement.
This
Certificate does not purport to summarize the Agreement and reference is made
to
the Agreement for the interests, rights, and limitations of rights and
obligations evidenced by this Certificate, and the rights and obligations of
the
Owner Trustee.
The
Agreement may be amended in any way by the Depositor and the Owner Trustee,
with
the consent of any affected Certificateholder and the Credit Enhancer but only
if the Rating Agency Condition is satisfied and the amendment would not cause
any adverse tax event for any Noteholder.
No
transfer of this Certificate shall be made unless the transfer is exempt from
the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 (the
“Act”) and any applicable state securities laws or is
made in accordance with the Act and those laws. In connection with any transfer
of this Certificate, the Owner Trustee will require either:
(i) the
transferee to execute an investment letter acceptable to and in form and
substance satisfactory to the Owner Trustee certifying to the Owner Trustee
the
facts surrounding the transfer, which investment letter shall not be an expense
of the Owner Trustee or
(ii) an
Opinion of Counsel acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to
the
Owner Trustee and the Depositor that the transfer may be made pursuant to an
exemption from the Act, describing the applicable exemption and its basis,
or is
being made pursuant to the Act, which Opinion of Counsel shall not be an expense
of the Owner Trustee or the Depositor.
No
transfer of a Class E-P Certificate shall be made unless the Owner Trustee
shall
have received either (i) a representation letter from the transferee of such
Certificate, acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to the Owner
Trustee, to the effect that such transferee is not an employee benefit plan
subject to Section 406 of ERISA or a plan or arrangement subject to Section
4975
of the Code, or a person acting on behalf of or investing plan assets of any
such benefit plan or arrangement, which representation letter shall not be
an
expense of the Owner Trustee, the Master Servicer or the Trust, or (ii) in
the
case of any such Certificate presented for registration in the name of an
employee benefit plan subject to ERISA or a plan or arrangement subject to
Section 4975 of the Code (or comparable provisions of any subsequent
enactments), a trustee of any such benefit plan or arrangement or any other
person acting on behalf of any such benefit plan or arrangement, an Opinion
of
Counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee to the effect that the purchase and
holding of such Certificate will not result in a prohibited transaction under
Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, and will not subject the
Owner
Trustee or the Master Servicer to any obligation in addition to those undertaken
in the Agreement, which Opinion of Counsel shall not be an expense of the Owner
Trustee, the Master Servicer or the Trust. Notwithstanding anything else to
the
contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Class E-P Certificate to or on
behalf of an employee benefit plan subject to ERISA or a plan or arrangement
subject to Section 4975 of the Code without the opinion of counsel satisfactory
to the Owner Trustee as described above shall be void and of no
effect.
B-2-3
Each
Holder of this Class E-P Certificate will be deemed to have agreed to be bound
by the restrictions of the Agreement
In
connection with any transfer of this Certificate, the holder transferring this
Certificate shall indemnify the Trust against any liability that may result
if
the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with any federal
and
state laws.
Neither
this Certificate nor any legal or beneficial interest in it may be, directly
or
indirectly, purchased, transferred, sold, pledged, assigned, or otherwise
disposed of, and any proposed transferee of this Certificate shall not become
its registered Holder, unless the conditions in Section 3.10 of the Agreement
are satisfied.
No
service charge shall be made for the registration of transfer or exchange of
this Certificate, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require
payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may
be
imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of this
Certificate.
The
Owner
Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, and any Certificate Paying Agent will treat
the person in whose name this Certificate is registered in the Certificate
Register as its owner for the purpose of receiving distributions pursuant to
Section 5.02 of the Agreement and for all other purposes whatsoever, and none
of
the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, and any Certificate Paying Agent
shall be bound by any notice to the contrary.
The
obligations created by the Agreement will terminate and this Certificate will
be
retired and the Trust will be dissolved when the Trust has made the final
distribution of all moneys or other property or proceeds of all Assets in
accordance with the terms of the Transaction Documents and Article V of the
Agreement. The Holder of the R-1 Certificates, with the consent of the Credit
Enhancer, may effect the transfer of all the Mortgage Loans at their termination
purchase price on or after which the aggregate Note Principal Balance of the
Principal Amount Notes is less than or equal to 10% of the Original Note
Principal Balance of the Principal Amount Notes. This transfer will result
in
the termination of the Agreement and the dissolution of the Trust.
B-2-4
Unless
the certificate of authentication on this Certificate has been executed by
the
Certificate Registrar by manual signature, this Certificate shall not be
entitled to any benefit under the Agreement, or be valid for any
purpose.
Dated:
[________________]
|
|||
CWHEQ
Revolving Home Equity Loan Trust,
Series
200[__]-[__]
|
|||
By:
|
Wilmington
Trust Company,
not
in its individual capacity but
solely
as Owner Trustee
|
||
By:
|
|||
Name:
|
|||
Title:
|
|||
Certificate
of Authentication:
This
is one of the Certificates
referenced
in the within mentioned Agreement.
|
|||
THE
BANK OF NEW YORK,
as
Indenture Trustee
|
|||
By:
|
|||
Authorized
Officer
|
B-2-5
ASSIGNMENT
FOR
VALUE
RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto
_______________________________
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
(Please
print or typewrite name and address including postal zip code of
assignee)
the
Percentage Interest evidenced by the within Certificate and hereby authorizes
the transfer of registration of such Percentage Interest to assignee on the
Certificate Register of the Trust Fund.
I
(We)
further direct the Owner Trustee to issue a new Certificate of a like
denomination and Class, to the above named assignee and deliver such Certificate
to the following address:
_______________________________________________________________.
Dated:
______________________________________
Signature
by or on behalf of assignor
DISTRIBUTION
INSTRUCTIONS
The
assignee should include the following for purposes of distribution:
Distributions
shall be made, by wire transfer or otherwise, in immediately available funds
to
___________________________________________________________________________,
for
the
account of _____________________________________________,
account
number _______________, or, if mailed by check, to ______
________________________________________________________________. Applicable
statements
should be mailed to
____________________________________________________________________________.
This
information is provided by ___________________________,
the
assignee named above, or ___________________________________, as its
agent.
B-2-6
STATE
OF )
)
ss.:
COUNTY
OF
)
On
the __
day of _____________, _____ before me, a notary public in and for said State,
personally appeared ______________ __________, known to me who, being by me
duly
sworn, did depose and say that he executed the foregoing
instrument.
_________________________________
Notary
Public
[Notarial
Seal]
X-0-0
XXXXXXX
X-0
[FORM
OF] CLASS [R-1][R-2] CERTIFICATE
Solely
for U.S. federal income tax purposes, this certificate is a “residual interest”
in a “Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit,” as those terms are defined,
respectively, in sections 860G and 860D of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
as
amended (the “Code”).
This
certificate has not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act
of
1933, as amended, or the securities laws of any state and may not be resold
or
transferred unless it is registered pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933
and
the securities laws of any state or is sold or transferred in transactions
that
are exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933 and under
applicable state law and is transferred in accordance with Section 3.10 of
the
trust agreement related to CWHEQ Revolving Home Equity Loan Trust, Series
200[__] [__] (the “Trust Agreement”). Neither this certificate nor any interest
in it may be transferred unless the transferee delivers to the owner trustee
either (a) a representation letter to the effect that the transferee is not
an
employee benefit plan subject to Section 406 of the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) or a plan subject to Section 4975 of
the Code, or a person acting on behalf of, or investing plan assets of, any
such
plan, or (b) an opinion of counsel in accordance with Section 3.10(c) of the
Trust Agreement. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any
purported transfer of this certificate to or on behalf of an employee benefit
plan subject to ERISA or a plan or arrangement subject to Section 4975 of the
Code without the opinion of counsel satisfactory to the owner trustee as
described above shall be void.
[ONLY
FOR CLASS R-1 CERTIFICATE-][This certificate will not be entitled to payments
until such time as described in the Trust Agreement. The holder of this
certificate is required to make certain advances of funds to the trust pursuant
to the Trust Agreement. If the holder of this certificate fails to do so it
may
be required to sell this certificate to the Sponsor.]
[ONLY
FOR CLASS R-1 CERTIFICATE-][This certificate may not be transferred except
to
the Master Servicer, the Sponsor, the Depositor or the Trust (or an affiliate
of
any of them).]
[ONLY
FOR TAX MATTER PERSON CERTIFICATE-][This certificate represents the “Tax Matters
Person Residual Interest” issued under the Trust Agreement and may not be
transferred to any person except in connection with the assumption by the
transferee of the duties of the Tax Matter Person under the Trust
Agreement.]
B-3-1
Date
of Trust Agreement
|
:
|
[____________],
200[__]
|
Cut
off Date
|
:
|
[____________],
200[__]
|
Percentage
Interest
|
:
|
[____________]%
|
Certificate
No.
|
:
|
[____________]
|
First
Distribution Date
|
:
|
[____________],
200[__]
|
CUSIP
|
:
|
[____________]
|
REVOLVING
HOME EQUITY LOAN ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATE
CWHEQ
REVOLVING HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST, SERIES 200[__] [__]
Class
[R-1][R-2] Certificate
evidencing
a percentage interest in the distributions allocable to the Class [R-1][R-2]
Certificates evidencing an undivided interest in a trust consisting primarily
of
a pool of adjustable rate home equity revolving credit line Mortgage Loans
sold
by
CWHEQ,
INC.
This
Certificate does not represent an obligation of or an interest in, and is not
guaranteed by CWHEQ, Inc. (the “Depositor”), Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., or
the Owner Trustee or any of their affiliates. Neither this Certificate nor
the
underlying Assets are guaranteed or insured by any governmental agency or
instrumentality.
This
certifies that [________________] [ONLY FOR TAX MATTER PERSON CERTIFICATE-][,
as
Tax Matters Person,] is the registered owner of the Percentage Interest
evidenced by this Certificate in the entire interest in the CWHEQ Revolving
Home
Equity Loan Trust, Series 200[__] [__] (the “Trust”), consisting primarily of a
pool of Mortgage Loans (the “Mortgage Loans”) transferred by the Depositor and
serviced by Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. (in that capacity, the “Master
Servicer”). The Trust was formed pursuant to the Trust Agreement, dated as of
[___________], 200[ ] (the “Agreement”), between the Depositor and
Wilmington Trust Company, as trustee (the “Owner Trustee”), a summary of some of
the pertinent provisions of which follows. Capitalized terms used in this
Certificate without definition have the meanings assigned in the Agreement,
in
the Transfer Affidavit attached thereto as Annex 1 to Exhibit C-2, or the Sale
and Servicing Agreement. This Certificate is issued under and is subject to
the
Agreement. The Holder of this Certificate by virtue of the acceptance of it
agrees to be bound by the Agreement.
This
Certificate is one of the Certificates from a duly authorized issue of
Certificates designated as Revolving Home Equity Loan Asset Backed Certificates,
Series 200[__] [__], representing, to the extent specified in the Agreement,
an
undivided interest in:
(vi) each
Mortgage Loan, including its Asset Balance (including all Additional Balances),
the related Mortgage File, all property that secures the Mortgage Loans, and
all
collections received on it after the Cut off Date (excluding payments due by
the
Cut off Date);
B-3-2
(vii) property
that secured a Mortgage Loan that is acquired by foreclosure or deed in lieu
of
foreclosure;
(viii) the
Depositor’s rights under the Purchase Agreement;
(ix)
the Depositor’s rights under the hazard insurance policies covering Mortgaged
Properties; and
(x)
certain other property described in the Agreement and Section 2.01 of the Sale
and Servicing Agreement (collectively, the “Assets”).
A
first
priority security interest in all the Assets has been granted to the Indenture
Trustee under the Indenture.
The
Certificateholder, by its acceptance of this Certificate, agrees that it will
look solely to the funds available under the Agreement for payment of this
Certificate and that the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity is not
personally liable to the Certificateholders for any amount payable under this
Certificate or the Agreement or, except as expressly provided in the Agreement,
subject to any liability under the Agreement.
[ONLY
FOR
THE CLASS R-1 CERTIFICATES-][The Certificateholder, by its acceptance of this
Certificate, agrees that it will advance funds to the Trust to purchase the
Additional Balances that were not funded by Principal Collections during a
Collection Period. If the Holder of the Class R-1 Certificates fails to advance
to the Trust these amounts, the Holder of the Class R-1 Certificates will be
required to sell the Class R-1 Certificates to the Sponsor immediately upon
request.]
This
Certificate does not purport to summarize the Agreement and reference is made
to
the Agreement for the interests, rights, and limitations of rights and
obligations evidenced by this Certificate, and the rights and obligations of
the
Owner Trustee.
The
Agreement may be amended in any way by the Depositor and the Owner Trustee,
with
the consent of any affected Certificateholder and the Credit Enhancer but only
if the Rating Agency Condition is satisfied and the amendment would not cause
any adverse tax event for any Noteholder.
No
transfer of this Certificate shall be made unless the transfer is exempt from
the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 (the
“Act”) and any applicable state securities laws or is
made in accordance with the Act and those laws. In connection with any transfer
of this Certificate, the Owner Trustee will require either:
(iii) the
transferee to execute an investment letter acceptable to and in form and
substance satisfactory to the Owner Trustee certifying to the Owner Trustee
the
facts surrounding the transfer, which investment letter shall not be an expense
of the Owner Trustee or
(iv) an
Opinion of Counsel acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to
the
Owner Trustee and the Depositor that the transfer may be made pursuant to an
exemption from the Act, describing the applicable exemption and its basis,
or is
being made pursuant to the Act, which Opinion of Counsel shall not be an expense
of the Owner Trustee or the Depositor.
B-3-3
Any
distribution of the proceeds of any remaining assets of the Trust Fund to which
the holder of this Class [R-1][R-2] Certificate is entitled to will be made
only
upon presentment and surrender of this Class [R-1][R-2] Certificate at the
Corporate Trust Office or the office or agency maintained by the Owner Trustee
in Wilmington, Delaware.
No
transfer of a Class [R-1][R-2] Certificate shall be made unless the Owner
Trustee shall have received either (i) a representation letter from the
transferee of such Certificate, acceptable to and in form and substance
satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, to the effect that such transferee is not
an
employee benefit plan subject to Section 406 of ERISA or a plan or arrangement
subject to Section 4975 of the Code, or a person acting on behalf of or
investing plan assets of any such benefit plan or arrangement, which
representation letter shall not be an expense of the Owner Trustee, the Master
Servicer or the Trust, or (ii) in the case of any such Certificate presented
for
registration in the name of an employee benefit plan subject to ERISA or a
plan
or arrangement subject to Section 4975 of the Code (or comparable provisions
of
any subsequent enactments), a trustee of any such benefit plan or arrangement
or
any other person acting on behalf of any such benefit plan or arrangement,
an
Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee to the effect that the
purchase and holding of such Certificate will not result in a prohibited
transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, and will
not
subject the Owner Trustee or the Master Servicer to any obligation in addition
to those undertaken in the Agreement, which Opinion of Counsel shall not be
an
expense of the Owner Trustee, the Master Servicer or the Trust. Notwithstanding
anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Class
[R-1][R-2] Certificate to or on behalf of an employee benefit plan subject
to
ERISA or a plan or arrangement subject to Section 4975 of the Code without
the
opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee as described above shall
be
void and of no effect.
Each
Holder of this Class [R-1][R-2] Certificate will be deemed to have agreed to
be
bound by the restrictions of the Agreement, including but not limited to the
restrictions that (i) each person holding or acquiring any Ownership Interest
in
this Class [R-1][R-2] Certificate must be a Permitted Transferee, (ii) no
Ownership Interest in this Class [R-1][R-2] Certificate may be transferred
without delivery to the Owner Trustee of (a) a transfer affidavit of the
proposed transferee and (b) a transfer certificate of the transferor, each
of
such documents to be in the form described in the Agreement, (iii) each person
holding or acquiring any Ownership Interest in this Class [R-1][R-2] Certificate
must agree to require a transfer affidavit and to deliver a transfer certificate
to the Owner Trustee as required pursuant to the Agreement, (iv) each person
holding or acquiring an Ownership Interest in this Class [R-1][R-2] Certificate
must agree not to transfer an Ownership Interest in this Class [R-1][R-2]
Certificate if it has actual knowledge that the proposed transferee is not
a
Permitted Transferee and (v) any attempted or purported transfer of any
Ownership Interest in this Class [R-1][R-2] Certificate in violation of such
restrictions will be absolutely null and void and will vest no rights in the
purported transferee.
B-3-4
In
connection with any transfer of this Certificate, the holder transferring this
Certificate shall indemnify the Trust against any liability that may result
if
the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with any federal
and
state laws.
Neither
this Certificate nor any legal or beneficial interest in it may be, directly
or
indirectly, purchased, transferred, sold, pledged, assigned, or otherwise
disposed of, and any proposed transferee of this Certificate shall not become
its registered Holder, unless the conditions in Section 3.10 of the Agreement
are satisfied.
No
service charge shall be made for the registration of transfer or exchange of
this Certificate, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require
payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may
be
imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of this
Certificate.
The
Owner
Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, and any Certificate Paying Agent will treat
the person in whose name this Certificate is registered in the Certificate
Register as its owner for the purpose of receiving distributions pursuant to
Section 5.02 of the Agreement and for all other purposes whatsoever, and none
of
the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, and any Certificate Paying Agent
shall be bound by any notice to the contrary.
The
obligations created by the Agreement will terminate and this Certificate will
be
retired and the Trust will be dissolved when the Trust has made the final
distribution of all moneys or other property or proceeds of all Assets in
accordance with the terms of the Transaction Documents and Article V of the
Agreement. The Holder of the R-1 Certificates, with the consent of the Credit
Enhancer, may effect the transfer of all the Mortgage Loans at their termination
purchase price on or after which the aggregate Note Principal Balance of the
Principal Amount Notes is less than or equal to 10% of the Original Note
Principal Balance of the Principal Amount Notes. This transfer will result
in
the termination of the Agreement and the dissolution of the Trust.
B-3-5
Unless
the certificate of authentication on this Certificate has been executed by
the
Certificate Registrar by manual signature, this Certificate shall not be
entitled to any benefit under the Agreement, or be valid for any
purpose.
Dated:
[________________]
|
|||
CWHEQ
Revolving Home Equity Loan Trust,
Series
200[__]-[__]
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By:
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Wilmington
Trust Company,
not
in its individual capacity but
solely
as Owner Trustee
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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Certificate
of Authentication:
This
is one of the Class [R-1][R-2] Certificates
referenced
in the within mentioned Agreement.
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THE
BANK OF NEW YORK,
as
Indenture
Trustee
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By:
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Authorized
Officer
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B-3-6
ASSIGNMENT
FOR
VALUE
RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto
_______________________________
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
(Please
print or typewrite name and address including postal zip code of
assignee)
the
Percentage Interest evidenced by the within Certificate and hereby authorizes
the transfer of registration of such Percentage Interest to assignee on the
Certificate Register of the Trust Fund.
I
(We)
further direct the Owner Trustee to issue a new Certificate of a like
denomination and Class, to the above named assignee and deliver such Certificate
to the following address:
_______________________________________________________________.
Dated:
_____________________________________
Signature
by or on behalf of assignor
DISTRIBUTION
INSTRUCTIONS
The
assignee should include the following for purposes of distribution:
Distributions
shall be made, by wire transfer or otherwise, in immediately available funds
to
_____________________________________________________________________________,
for
the
account of _____________________________________________,
account
number _______________, or, if mailed by check, to ______
________________________________________________________________. Applicable
statements
should be mailed to
____________________________________________________________________________.
This
information is provided by ___________________________,
the
assignee named above, or ___________________________________, as its
agent.
B-3-7
STATE
OF
)
)
ss.:
COUNTY
OF )
On
the __
day of _____________, _____ before me, a notary public in and for said State,
personally appeared ______________ __________, known to me who, being by me
duly
sworn, did depose and say that he executed the foregoing
instrument.
_________________________________
Notary
Public
[Notarial
Seal]
B-3-8
EXHIBIT
C-1
FORM
OF
TRANSFEROR INVESTMENT LETTER
FOR
CERTIFICATES
Date:
CWHEQ,
Inc.
as
Depositor
0000
Xxxx
Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: ________________
Wilmington
Trust Company, as Owner Trustee
Xxxxxx
Square North
0000
Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx,
XX 00000-0000
Attention:
Corporate Trust Administration
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Re:
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CWHEQ
Revolving Home Equity Loan Trust, Series 200[__]-[__] Revolving Home
Equity Loan Asset Backed Securities, Series 200[__]-[__]
Certificates
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Ladies
and Gentlemen:
This
letter is delivered to you in connection with the sale by _____________ (the
“Transferor”) to ______________________ (the
“Transferee”) of the Certificates
representing a ____%
Percentage Interest (the “Transferred Certificates”).
All capitalized terms used in this certificate without definition have the
meanings given to them in the Trust Agreement, dated as of [_____], 200 [__],
between CWHEQ, Inc., as depositor, and Wilmington Trust Company, as owner
trustee. The Transferor hereby certifies, represents, and warrants to you
that:
1. The
Transferor is the lawful owner of the Transferred Certificates with the full
right to transfer them free from any claims and encumbrances
whatsoever.
2. Neither
the Transferor nor anyone acting on its behalf has (a) offered, transferred,
pledged, sold, or otherwise disposed of any Certificate, any interest in any
Certificate, or any other similar security to any person in any manner, (b)
solicited any offer to buy or accept a transfer, pledge, or other disposition
of
any Certificate, any interest in any Certificate, or any other similar security
from any person in any manner, (c) otherwise approached or negotiated with
respect to any Certificate, any interest in any Certificate or any other similar
security with any person in any manner, (d) made any general solicitation by
general advertising or in any other manner, or (e) taken any other action that
(in the case of any of the acts described in clauses (a) through (e) of this
paragraph) would constitute a distribution of any Certificate under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities
Act”), or would render the disposition of any Certificate a
violation of Section 5 of the Securities Act or any state securities laws,
or
would require registration or qualification of any Certificate pursuant to
the
Securities Act or any state securities laws.
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3. The
Transferor and any person acting on behalf of the Transferor in this matter
reasonably believe that the Transferee is a “qualified institutional buyer” as
that term is defined in Rule 144A (“Rule 144A”) under
the Securities Act (a “Qualified Institutional Buyer”)
purchasing for its own account or for the account of a Qualified Institutional
Buyer. In determining whether the Transferee is a Qualified Institutional Buyer,
the Transferor and any person acting on behalf of the Transferor in this matter
have relied on the following to establish the Transferee’s ownership and
discretionary investments of securities (check one or more):
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The
Transferee’s most recent publicly available financial statements, which
statements present the information as of a date within 16 months
preceding
the date of sale of the Transferred Certificate in the case of a
U.S.
purchaser and within 18 months preceding such date of sale for a
foreign
purchaser; or
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The
most recent publicly available information appearing in documents
filed by
the Transferee with the Securities and Exchange Commission or another
United States federal, state, or local governmental agency or self
regulatory organization, or with a foreign governmental agency or
self
regulatory organization, which information is as of a date within
16
months preceding the date of sale of the Transferred Certificate
in the
case of a U.S. purchaser and within 18 months preceding such date
of sale
for a foreign purchaser; or
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The
most recent publicly available information appearing in a recognized
securities manual, which information is as of a date within 16 months
preceding the date of sale of the Transferred Certificate in the
case of a
U.S. purchaser and within 18 months preceding such date of sale for
a
foreign purchaser; or
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A
certification by the chief financial officer, a person fulfilling
an
equivalent function, or other executive officer of the Transferee,
specifying the amount of securities owned and invested on a discretionary
basis by the Transferee as of a specific date on or since the close
of the
Transferee’s most recent fiscal year, or, in the case of a Transferee that
is a member of a “family of investment companies,” as that term is defined
in Rule 144A, a certification by an executive officer of the investment
adviser specifying the amount of securities owned by the “family of
investment companies” as of a specific date on or since the close of the
Transferee’s most recent fiscal
year.
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4. The
Transferor and any person acting on behalf of the Transferor understand that
in
determining the aggregate amount of securities owned and invested on a
discretionary basis by an entity for purposes of establishing whether such
entity is a Qualified Institutional Buyer:
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the
following instruments and interests shall be excluded: securities
of
issuers that are affiliated with the Transferee; securities that
are part
of an unsold allotment to or subscription by the Transferee, if the
Transferee is a dealer; securities of issuers that are part of the
Transferee’s “family of investment companies,” if the Transferee is a
registered investment company; bank deposit notes and certificates
of
deposit; loan participations; repurchase agreements; securities owned
but
subject to a repurchase agreement; and currency, interest rate, and
commodity swaps;
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the
aggregate value of the securities shall be the cost of such securities,
except where the entity reports its securities holdings in its financial
statements on the basis of their market value, and no current information
with respect to the cost of those securities has been published,
in which
case the securities may be valued at
market;
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•
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securities
owned by subsidiaries of the entity that are consolidated with the
entity
in its financial statements prepared in accordance with generally
accepted
accounting principles may be included if the investments of such
subsidiaries are managed under the direction of the entity, except
that,
unless the entity is a reporting company under Section 13 or 15(d)
of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, securities owned by
such
subsidiaries may not be included if the entity itself is a majority
owned
subsidiary that would be included in the consolidated financial statements
of another enterprise.
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5. The
Transferor or a person acting on its behalf has taken reasonable steps to ensure
that the Transferee is aware that the Transferor is relying on the exemption
from the provisions of Section 5 of the Securities Act provided by Rule
144A.
6. The
Transferor or a person acting on its behalf has furnished, or caused to be
furnished, to the Transferee all information regarding (a) the Transferred
Certificates and payments on them, (b) the nature and performance of the
Mortgage Loans, and (c) the Indenture, the Agreement, and the Trust Estate,
that
the Transferee has requested.
Very
truly yours,
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(Transferor)
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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C-1-3
FORM
OF
TRANSFEREE INVESTMENT LETTER
FOR
CERTIFICATES
Date:
CWHEQ,
Inc.
as
Depositor
0000
Xxxx
Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
Attention:
________________
Wilmington
Trust Company, as Owner Trustee
Xxxxxx
Square North
0000
Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx,
XX 00000-0000
Attention:
Corporate Trust Administration
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Re:
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CWHEQ
Revolving Home Equity Loan Trust, Series 200[__]-[__], Revolving
Home
Equity Loan Asset Backed Securities, Series 200[__]-[__]
Certificates
|
Ladies
and Gentlemen:
_______________________
(the “Transferee”) intends to purchase from
______________________ (the “Transferor”) Certificates
representing a ___% percentage interest in the entire interest in the
Certificates (the “Transferred Certificates”). The
Certificates, including the Transferred Certificates, were issued pursuant
to
the Agreement. All capitalized terms used in this certificate without definition
have the meanings given to them in the Trust Agreement, dated as of [_____],
200[__], between CWHEQ, Inc., as depositor, and Wilmington Trust Company, as
owner trustee. The Transferee hereby certifies, represents, and warrants
that:
1. The
Transferee is a “qualified institutional buyer” (a “Qualified
Institutional Buyer”) as that term is defined in Rule 144A
(“Rule 144A”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the “Securities Act”), and has completed one
of the forms of certification to that effect attached as Annex 1 and Annex
2.
The Transferee is aware that the sale to it of the Transferred Certificates
is
being made in reliance on Rule 144A. The Transferee is acquiring the Transferred
Certificates for its own account or for the account of a Qualified Institutional
Buyer, and understands that the Transferred Certificates may be resold, pledged,
or transferred only to a person reasonably believed to be a Qualified
Institutional Buyer that purchases for its own account or for the account of
a
Qualified Institutional Buyer to whom notice is given that the resale, pledge,
or transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A.
2. The
Transferee has been furnished with all information regarding (a) the Transferred
Certificates and payments on them, (b) the nature and performance of the
Mortgage Loans, (c) the Indenture, (d) the Agreement, and (e) any credit
enhancement mechanism associated with the Transferred Certificates, that it
has
requested.
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3. The
Transferee represents that it is not an employee benefit plan that is subject
to
the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, or a plan
subject to Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, nor
is
it acting on behalf of or investing plan assets of any such employee benefit
plan.
4. The
Transferee agrees to be bound by the Agreement.
Very
truly yours,
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(Transferor)
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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C-1-5
ANNEX
1
TO EXHIBIT C-1
QUALIFIED
INSTITUTIONAL BUYER STATUS UNDER SEC RULE 144A
[for
Transferees other than Registered Investment Companies]
The
undersigned hereby certifies as follows to [name of Transferor] (the
“Transferor”) and [name of Certificate Registrar], as
Certificate Registrar, with respect to the Certificates being transferred (the
“Transferred Certificates”) as described in the
Transferee Certificate to which this certification relates and to which this
certification is an Annex:
1.
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As
indicated below, the undersigned is the chief financial officer,
a person
fulfilling an equivalent function, or other executive officer of
the
entity purchasing the Transferred Certificates (the
“Transferee”).
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2.
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The
Transferee is a “qualified institutional buyer” as that term is defined in
Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (“Rule
144A”), because (1) the Transferee owned or invested on
a
discretionary basis $________________________ in securities (other
than
the excluded securities referred to below and otherwise calculated
in
accordance with Rule 144A) as of the end of the Transferee’s most recent
fiscal year and (2) the Transferee satisfies the criteria in the
category
marked below.
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Corporation,
etc. The Transferee is a corporation (other than a bank, savings
and
loan association, or similar institution), Massachusetts or similar
statutory trust, partnership, or any organization described in Section
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended.
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•
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Bank.
The Transferee (a) is a national bank or a banking institution organized
under the laws of any state, U.S. territory, or the District of Columbia,
the business of which is substantially confined to banking and is
supervised by the state or territorial banking commission or similar
official or is a foreign bank or equivalent institution, and (b)
has an
audited net worth of at least $25,000,000 as demonstrated in its
latest
annual financial statements, a copy of which is attached, as of a
date not
more than 16 months preceding the date of sale of the Certificates
in the
case of a U.S. bank, and not more than 18 months preceding such date
of
sale for a foreign bank or equivalent
institution.
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Savings
and Loan. The Transferee (a) is a savings and loan association,
building and loan association, cooperative bank, homestead association,
or
similar institution that is supervised and examined by a state or
federal
authority having supervision over those institutions or is a foreign
savings and loan association or equivalent institution and (b) has
an
audited net worth of at least $25,000,000 as demonstrated in its
latest
annual financial statements, a copy of which is attached, as of a
date not
more than 16 months preceding the date of sale of the Certificates
in the
case of a U.S. savings and loan association, and not more than 18
months
preceding such date of sale for a foreign savings and loan association
or
equivalent institution.
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Broker
dealer. The Transferee is a dealer registered pursuant to Section
15
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.
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•
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Insurance
Company. The Transferee is an insurance company whose primary and
predominant business activity is the writing of insurance or the
reinsuring of risks underwritten by insurance companies and that
is
subject to supervision by the insurance commissioner or a similar
official
or agency of a state, U.S. territory, or the District of
Columbia.
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Investment
Advisor. The Transferee is an investment advisor registered under the
Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as
amended.
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3.
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•
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Other.
(Please supply a brief description of the entity and a cross reference
to
the paragraph and subparagraph under subsection (a)(1) of Rule 144A
pursuant to which it qualifies. Note that registered investment companies
should complete Annex 2 rather than this Annex 1.)
__________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
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The
term
“securities” does not include (1) securities of
issuers that are affiliated with the Transferee, (2) securities that are part
of
an unsold allotment to or subscription by the Transferee, if the Transferee
is a
dealer, (3) bank deposit notes and certificates of deposit, (4) loan
participations, (5) repurchase agreements, (6) securities owned but subject
to a
repurchase agreement, and (7) currency, interest rate, and commodity swaps.
For
purposes of determining the aggregate amount of securities owned or invested
on
a discretionary basis by the Transferee, the Transferee did not include any
of
the securities referred to in this paragraph.
4.
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For
purposes of determining the aggregate amount of securities owned
or
invested on a discretionary basis by the Transferee, the Transferee
used
the cost of the securities to the Transferee, unless the Transferee
reports its securities holdings in its financial statements on the
basis
of their market value, and no current information with respect to
the cost
of those securities has been published, in which case the securities
were
valued at market. Further, in determining the aggregate amount, the
Transferee may have included securities owned by subsidiaries of
the
Transferee, but only if the subsidiaries are consolidated with the
Transferee in its financial statements prepared in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles and if the investments of
the
subsidiaries are managed under the Transferee’s direction. However, such
securities were not included if the Transferee is a majority owned,
consolidated subsidiary of another enterprise and the Transferee
is not
itself a reporting company under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as
amended.
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5.
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The
Transferee acknowledges that it is familiar with Rule 144A and understands
that the Transferor and other parties related to the Transferred
Certificates are relying and will continue to rely on the statements
made
herein because one or more sales to the Transferee may be in reliance
on
Rule 144A.
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o
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Will
the Transferee be purchasing the Transferred Owner
Trust
|
Yes
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No
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Certificates
only for the Transferee’s own
account?
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6.
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If
the answer to the foregoing question is “no,” then in each case where the
Transferee is purchasing for an account other than its own, the account
belongs to a third party that is itself a “qualified institutional buyer”
within the meaning of Rule 144A, and the “qualified institutional buyer”
status of the third party has been established by the Transferee
through
one or more of the appropriate methods contemplated by Rule
144A.
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7.
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The
Transferee will notify each of the parties to which this certification
is
made of any changes in the information and conclusions herein. Until
that
notice is given, the Transferee’s purchase of the Transferred Certificates
will constitute a reaffirmation of this certification as of the date
of
the purchase. In addition, if the Transferee is a bank or savings
and loan
as provided above, the Transferee agrees that it will furnish to
such
parties any updated annual financial statements that become available
on
or before the date of the purchase, promptly after they become
available.
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Print
Name of Transferee
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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Date:
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C-1-8
ANNEX
2
TO EXHIBIT C-1
QUALIFIED
INSTITUTIONAL BUYER STATUS UNDER SEC RULE 144A
[for
Transferees that are Registered Investment Companies]
The
undersigned hereby certifies as follows to [name of Transferor] (the
“Transferor”) and [name of Certificate Registrar], as
Certificate Registrar, with respect to the Certificates being transferred (the
“Transferred Certificates”) as described in the
Transferee Certificate to which this certification relates and to which this
certification is an Annex:
1.
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As
indicated below, the undersigned is the chief financial officer,
a person
fulfilling an equivalent function, or other executive officer of
the
entity purchasing the Transferred Certificates (the
“Transferee”) or, if the Transferee is a
“qualified institutional buyer” as that term is defined in Rule 144A under
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (“Rule
144A”), because the Transferee is part of a Family of
Investment Companies, is an executive officer of the investment adviser
(the
“Adviser”).
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2.
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The
Transferee is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A
because (i) the Transferee is an investment company registered under
the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and (ii) as marked below,
the
Transferee alone owned or invested on a discretionary basis, or the
Transferee’s Family of Investment Companies owned, at least $100,000,000
in securities (other than the excluded securities referred to below)
as of
the end of the Transferee’s most recent fiscal year. For purposes of
determining the amount of securities owned by the Transferee or the
Transferee’s Family of Investment Companies, the cost of the securities
was used, unless the Transferee or any member of the Transferee’s Family
of Investment Companies, as the case may be, reports its securities
holdings in its financial statements on the basis of their market
value,
and no current information with respect to the cost of those securities
has been published, in which case the securities of the entity were
valued
at market.
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The
Transferee owned or invested on a discretionary basis
$_____________________ in securities (other than the excluded securities
referred to below and otherwise calculated in accordance with Rule
144A)
as of the end of the Transferee’s most recent fiscal
year.
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•
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The
Transferee is part of a “Family of Investment
Companies” that owned in the aggregate $________________ in
securities (other than the excluded securities referred to below
and
otherwise calculated in accordance with Rule 144A) as of the end
of the
Transferee’s most recent fiscal
year.
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3.
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The
term “Family of Investment Companies” as used herein means two or more
registered investment companies (or series thereof) that have the
same
investment adviser or investment advisers that are affiliated (by
virtue
of being majority owned subsidiaries of the same parent or because
one
investment adviser is a majority owned subsidiary of the
other).
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4.
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The
term “securities” as used herein does not include (i) securities of
issuers that are affiliated with the Transferee or are part of the
Transferee’s Family of Investment Companies, (ii) bank deposit notes and
certificates of deposit, (iii) loan participations, (iv) repurchase
agreements, (v) securities owned but subject to a repurchase agreement
and
(vi) currency, interest rate and commodity swaps. For purposes of
determining the aggregate amount of securities owned and/or invested
on a
discretionary basis by the Transferee, or owned by the Transferee’s Family
of Investment Companies, the securities referred to in this paragraph
were
excluded.
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5.
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The
Transferee is familiar with Rule 144A and understands that the parties
to
which this certification is being made are relying and will continue
to
rely on the statements made herein because one or more sales to the
Transferee will be in reliance on Rule
144A.
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o
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o
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Will
the Transferee be purchasing the Transferred Certificates only
for
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Yes
|
No
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the
Transferee’s own account?
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6.
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If
the answer to the foregoing question is “no,” then in each case where the
Transferee is purchasing for an account other than its own, the account
belongs to a third party that is itself a “qualified institutional buyer”
within the meaning of Rule 144A, and the “qualified institutional buyer”
status of the third party has been established by the Transferee
through
one or more of the appropriate methods contemplated by Rule
144A.
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7.
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The
undersigned will notify the parties to which this certification is
made of
any changes in the information and conclusions herein. Until that
notice,
the Transferee’s purchase of the Transferred Certificates will constitute
a reaffirmation of this certification by the undersigned as of the
date of
the purchase.
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Print
Name of Transferee or Adviser
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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IF
AN ADVISER:
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Print
Name of Transferee
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Date:
_________________________
C-1-10
ASSIGNMENT
FOR
VALUE
RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s)
unto
___________________________________________
___________________________________________
___________________________________________
(Please
print or typewrite name and address including postal zip code of
assignee)
the
Percentage Interest evidenced by the within Certificate and hereby authorizes
the transfer of registration of the Percentage Interest to assignee on the
Certificate Register of the Trust.
I
(We)
further direct the Issuer to issue a new Certificate of a like denomination
and
Class, to the above named assignee and deliver the Certificate to the following
address:
___________________________________________.
Dated:
_______________
___________________________________
Signature
by or on behalf of assignor
DISTRIBUTION
INSTRUCTIONS
The
assignee should include the following for purposes of distribution:
Distributions
shall be made, by wire transfer or otherwise, in immediately available funds
to:
____________________________________
____________________________________
,
____________________________________
,
for
the
account of____________________________ , account number _____________, or,
if
mailed by check, to_________________________ . Applicable statements should
be
mailed to_____________________________ ,___________________________ information
is provided by____________________________________ , the assignee named above,
or____________________________________ , as its agent
C-1-11
EXHIBIT
C-2
[FORM
OF]
TRANSFER AFFIDAVIT
CWHEQ,
Inc. Revolving Home Equity Loan Trust, Series 200[__]-[__]
Revolving
Home Equity Loan Asset Backed Securities, Series 200[__]-[__]
Class
[R-1][R-2] Certificates
STATE
OF )
)
ss.:
COUNTY
OF )
The
undersigned, being first duly sworn, deposes and says as follows:
1. The
undersigned is an officer of _________________, the proposed Transferee of
an
Ownership Interest in a Class [R-1][R-2] Certificate (the “Certificate”) issued
pursuant to the Trust Agreement, dated as of [________________] (the
“Agreement”), between CWHEQ, Inc. (the “Depositor”) and Wilmington Trust
Company, as trustee (the “Owner Trustee”). Capitalized terms used, but not
defined herein or in Exhibit 1 hereto, shall have the meanings ascribed to
such
terms in the Agreement. The Transferee has authorized the undersigned to make
this affidavit on behalf of the Transferee.
2. The
Transferee is not an employee benefit plan or other plan or arrangement that
is
subject to Title I of ERISA or to section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code
of
1986, nor is it acting on behalf of or with plan assets of any such plan. The
Transferee is, as of the date hereof, and will be, as of the date of the
Transfer, a Permitted Transferee. The Transferee will endeavor to remain a
Permitted Transferee for so long as it retains its Ownership Interest in the
Certificate. The Transferee is acquiring its Ownership Interest in the
Certificate for its own account.
3. The
Transferee has been advised of, and understands that (i) a tax will be imposed
on Transfers of the Certificate to Persons that are not Permitted Transferees;
(ii) such tax will be imposed on the transferor, or, if such Transfer is through
an agent (which includes a broker, nominee or middleman) for a Person that
is
not a Permitted Transferee, on the agent; and (iii) the Person otherwise liable
for the tax shall be relieved of liability for the tax if the subsequent
Transferee furnished to such Person an affidavit that such subsequent Transferee
is a Permitted Transferee and, at the time of Transfer, such Person does not
have actual knowledge that the affidavit is false.
4. The
Transferee has been advised of, and understands that a tax will be imposed
on a
“pass-through entity” holding the Certificate if at any time during the taxable
year of the pass-through entity a Person that is not a Permitted Transferee
is
the record holder of an interest in such entity. The Transferee understands
that
such tax will not be imposed for any period with respect to which the record
holder furnishes to the pass-through entity an affidavit that such record holder
is a Permitted Transferee and the pass-through entity does not have actual
knowledge that such affidavit is false. (For this purpose, a “pass-through
entity” includes a regulated investment company, a real estate investment trust
or common trust fund, a partnership, trust or estate, and certain cooperatives
and, except as may be provided in Treasury Regulations, persons holding
interests in pass-through entities as a nominee for another
Person.)
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5. The
Transferee has reviewed the provisions of Section 3.10 of the Agreement and
understands the legal consequences of the acquisition of an Ownership Interest
in the Certificate including, without limitation, the restrictions on subsequent
Transfers and the provisions regarding voiding the Transfer and mandatory sales.
The Transferee expressly agrees to be bound by and to abide by the provisions
of
Section 3.10 of the Agreement and the restrictions noted on the face of the
Certificate. The Transferee understands and agrees that any breach of any of
the
representations included herein shall render the Transfer to the Transferee
contemplated hereby null and void.
6. The
Transferee agrees to require a Transfer Affidavit from any Person to whom the
Transferee attempts to Transfer its Ownership Interest in the Certificate,
and
in connection with any Transfer by a Person for whom the Transferee is acting
as
nominee, trustee or agent, and the Transferee will not Transfer its Ownership
Interest or cause any Ownership Interest to be Transferred to any Person that
the Transferee knows is not a Permitted Transferee. In connection with any
such
Transfer by the Transferee, the Transferee agrees to deliver to the Owner
Trustee a certificate substantially in the form set forth as Exhibit E to the
Agreement (a “Transferor Certificate”) to the effect that such Transferee has no
actual knowledge that the Person to which the Transfer is to be made is not
a
Permitted Transferee.
7. The
Transferee does not have the intention to impede the assessment or collection
of
any tax legally required to be paid with respect to the Class [R-1][R-2]
Certificates.
8. The
Transferee’s taxpayer identification number is ______________.
9. The
Transferee is a U.S. Person as defined in Code section 7701(a)(30) and, unless
the Transferor (or any subsequent transferor) expressly waives such requirement,
will not cause income from the Certificate to be attributable to a foreign
permanent establishment or fixed base (within the meaning of an applicable
income tax treaty) of the Transferee or another U.S. taxpayer.
10. The
Transferee is aware that the Class [R-1][R-2] Certificates may be “noneconomic
residual interests” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section
1.860E-1(c) and that the transferor of a noneconomic residual interest will
remain liable for any taxes due with respect to the income on such residual
interest, unless no significant purpose of the transfer was to impede the
assessment or collection of tax. In addition, as the Holder of a noneconomic
residual interest, the Transferee may incur tax liabilities in excess of any
cash flows generated by the interest and the Transferee hereby represents that
it intends to pay taxes associated with holding the residual interest as they
become due.
11. The
Transferee has provided financial statements or other financial information
requested by the Transferor in connection with the transfer of the Certificate
to permit the Transferor to assess the financial capability of the Transferee
to
pay such taxes. The Transferee historically has paid its debts as they have
come
due and intends to pay its debts as they come due in the future.
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[12. Unless
the Transferor (or any subsequent transferor) expressly waives such requirement,
the Transferee (and any subsequent transferee) certifies (or will certify),
respectively, that the transfer satisfies either the “Asset Test” imposed by
Treasury Regulation § 1.860E-1(c)(5) or the “Formula Test” imposed by Treasury
Regulation § 1.860E-1(c)(7).]
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the Transferee has caused this instrument to be executed on
its
behalf by its duly authorized officer, this_____ day of ___________,
2___.
PRINT
NAME OF TRANSFEREE
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[Corporate
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ATTEST:
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[Assistant]
Secretary
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Personally
appeared before me the above named ______________________, known or proved
to me
to be the same person who executed the foregoing instrument and to be the
__________________ of the Transferee, and acknowledged that he executed the
same
as his free act and deed and the free act and deed of the
Transferee.
Subscribed
and sworn before me this ____ day of ___________, 20___.
NOTARY
PUBLIC
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Commission expires the
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day of____________, 20__
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[WAIVER
OF REQUIREMENT THAT TRANSFEREE CERTIFIES TRANSFER OF CERTIFICATE SATISFIES
CERTAIN REGULATORY “SAFE HARBORS”
The
Transferor hereby waives the requirement that the Transferee certify that the
transfer of the Certificate satisfies either the “Asset Test” imposed by
Treasury Regulation §1.860E-1(c)(5) or the “Formula Test” imposed by Treasury
Regulation § 1.860E-1(c)(7).
CWHEQ,
INC.
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Definitions
“Asset
Test”: A transfer satisfies the Asset Test if: (i) At the time of the transfer,
and at the close of each of the transferee's two fiscal years preceding the
transferee's fiscal year of transfer, the transferee's gross assets for
financial reporting purposes exceed $100 million and its net assets for
financial reporting purposes exceed $10 million. The gross assets and net assets
of a transferee do not include any obligation of any “related person” or any
other asset if a principal purpose for holding or acquiring the other asset
is
to permit the transferee to satisfy such monetary conditions; (ii) The
transferee must be an “eligible corporation” and must agree in writing that any
subsequent transfer of the interest will be to another eligible corporation
in a
transaction that satisfies paragraphs 9 through 11 of this Transfer Affidavit
and the Asset Test. A transfer fails to meet the Asset Test if the transferor
knows, or has reason to know, that the transferee will not honor the
restrictions on subsequent transfers of the Certificate; and (iii) A reasonable
person would not conclude, based on the facts and circumstances known to the
transferor on or before the date of the transfer, that the taxes associated
with
the Certificate will not be paid. The consideration given to the transferee
to
acquire the Certificate is only one factor to be considered, but the transferor
will be deemed to know that the transferee cannot or will not pay if the amount
of consideration is so low compared to the liabilities assumed that a reasonable
person would conclude that the taxes associated with holding the Certificate
will not be paid. For purposes of applying the Asset Test, (i) an “eligible
corporation” means any domestic C corporation (as defined in section 1361(a)(2)
of the Code) other than (A) a corporation which is exempt from, or is not
subject to, tax under section 11 of the Code, (B) an entity described in section
851(a) or 856(a) of the Code, (C) A REMIC, or (D) an organization to which
part
I of subchapter T of chapter 1 of subtitle A of the Code applies; (ii) a
“related person” is any person that (A) bears a relationship to the transferee
enumerated in section 267(b) or 707(b)(1) of the Code, using “20 percent”
instead of “50 percent” where it appears under the provisions, or (B) is under
common control (within the meaning of section 52(a) and (b)) with the
transferee.
“Formula
Test”: A transfer satisfies the formula test if the present value of the
anticipated tax liabilities associated with holding the Certificate does not
exceed the sum of (i) the present value of any consideration given to the
transferee to acquire the Certificate; (ii) the present value of the expected
future distributions on the Certificate; and (iii) the present value of the
anticipated tax savings associated with holding the Certificate as the issuing
REMIC generates losses. For purposes of applying the Formula Test: (i) The
transferee is assumed to pay tax at a rate equal to the highest rate of tax
specified in section 11(b)(1) of the Code. If the transferee has been subject
to
the alternative minimum tax under section 55 of the Code in the preceding two
years and will compute its taxable income in the current taxable year using
the
alternative minimum tax rate, then the tax rate specified in section 55(b)(1)(B)
of the Code may be used in lieu of the highest rate specified in section
11(b)(1) of the Code; (ii) The transfer must satisfy paragraph 9 of the Transfer
Affidavit; and (iii) Present values are computed using a discount rate equal
to
the Federal short-term rate prescribed by section 1274(d) of the Code for the
month of the transfer and the compounding period used by the
taxpayer.
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“Ownership
Interest”: As to any Certificate, any ownership interest in such Certificate,
including any interest in such Certificate as the Holder thereof and any other
interest therein, whether direct or indirect, legal or beneficial.
“Permitted
Transferee”: Any person other than
• the
United States, any State or political subdivision thereof, or any agency or
instrumentality of any of them,
• a
foreign government, International Organization, or any agency or instrumentality
of either of them,
• an
organization (except certain farmers’ cooperatives described in Section 521 of
the Code) that is exempt from tax imposed by Chapter 1 of the Code (including
the tax imposed by Section 511 of the Code on unrelated business taxable income)
on any excess inclusions (as defined in Section 860E(c)(1) of the Code) with
respect to any Residual Certificate,
• rural
electric and telephone cooperatives described in Section 1381(a)(2)(C) of the
Code,
• an
“electing large partnership” as defined in Section 775 of the Code,
• a
person that is not a citizen or resident of the United States, a corporation,
partnership, or other entity created or organized in or under the laws of the
United States, any state of the United States, or the District of Columbia,
or
an estate or trust whose income from sources without the United States is
includible in gross income for United States federal income tax purposes
regardless of its connection with the conduct of a trade or business within
the
United States or a trust if a court within the United States is able to exercise
primary supervision over the administration of the trust and one or more United
States persons have the authority to control all substantial decisions of the
trust unless such person has furnished the transferor and the Owner Trustee
with
a duly completed Internal Revenue Service Form W-8ECI or any applicable
successor form, and
• any
other person so designated by the Depositor based on an Opinion of Counsel
that
the Transfer of an Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate to such person
may cause any REMIC to fail to qualify as a REMIC at any time that the
Certificates are outstanding.
The
terms
“United States,” “State,” and “International Organization” have the meanings in
Section 7701 of the Code or successor provisions. A corporation will not be
treated as an instrumentality of the United States or of any State or political
subdivision thereof for these purposes if all of its activities are subject
to
tax and, with the exception of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation,
a
majority of its board of directors is not selected by such government
unit.
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“Person”:
Any individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint
venture, bank, joint stock company, trust (including any beneficiary thereof),
unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision
thereof.
“Transfer”:
Any direct or indirect transfer or sale of any Ownership Interest in a
Certificate, including the acquisition of a Certificate by the
Depositor.
“Transferee”:
Any Person who is acquiring by Transfer any Ownership Interest in a
Certificate.
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