The Trust Agreement
Exhibit
99.1
EXECUTION
COPY
CWALT,
INC.,
Depositor
DEUTSCHE
BANK SECURITIES INC.,
Underlying
Certificate Seller
and
THE
BANK
OF NEW YORK,
Trustee,
Securities Intermediary and Bank
_______________________________
Dated
as
of November 26, 2007
_______________________________
CWALT,
Inc.
Resecuritization
Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-26R
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
Page
ARTICLE
I DEFINITIONS
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10
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Section
1.01
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Defined
Terms.
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10
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Section
1.02
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Certain
Interpretive
Principles.
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26
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ARTICLE
II CONVEYANCE OF THE DEPOSITED UNDERLYING CERTIFICATES; ORIGINAL
ISSUANCE
OF CERTIFICATES
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27
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Section
2.01
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Conveyance
of the
Deposited Underlying Certificates.
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27
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Section
2.02
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Acceptance
by
Trustee.
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28
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Section
2.03
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Representations
and
Warranties of the Underlying Certificate Seller.
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28
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Section
2.04
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Representations
and
Warranties of the Depositor.
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30
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Section
2.05
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Issuance
of
Certificates
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32
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Section
2.06
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REMIC
Matters..
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32
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Section
2.07
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Presentation
for
Transfer..
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32
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ARTICLE
III ADMINISTRATION OF THE TRUST FUND; PAYMENTS AND REPORTS TO
CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
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33
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Section
3.01
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Defaults
by the
Underlying Trust.
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33
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Section
3.02
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Distribution
Account
and Securities Account..
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33
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Section
3.03
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Permitted
Withdrawals
From the Distribution Account.
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34
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Section
3.04
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Distributions.
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35
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Section
3.05
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[Reserved.]
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36
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Section
3.06
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Allocation
of Realized
Losses.
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36
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Section
3.07
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Determination
of
Pass-Through Rates for LIBOR Certificates.
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36
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Section
3.08
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Monthly
Statements to
Certificateholders.
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38
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Section
3.09
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Reports
of the
Trustee; Distribution Account.
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39
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Section
3.10
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Access
to Certain
Documentation and Information.
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39
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Section
3.11
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Annual
Statement as to
Compliance.
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39
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ARTICLE
IV THE CERTIFICATES
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40
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Section
4.01
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The
Certificates.
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40
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Section
4.02
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Certificate
Register;
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of
Certificates.
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40
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Section
4.03
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Mutilated,
Destroyed,
Lost or Stolen Certificates.
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44
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Section
4.04
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Persons
Deemed
Owners.
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45
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Section
4.05
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Access
to List of
Certificateholders’ Names and Addresses.
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45
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Section
4.06
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Maintenance
of Office
or Agency.
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45
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Section
4.07
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Depositable
and
Exchangeable Certificates.
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45
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ARTICLE
V CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
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48
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Section
5.01
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Duties
of
Trustee.
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48
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Section
5.02
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Certain
Matters
Affecting the Trustee.
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48
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Section
5.03
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Trustee
Not Liable for
Certificates or Deposited Underlying Certificates.
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50
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Section
5.04
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Trustee
May Own
Certificates.
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50
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Section
5.05
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Trustee’s
Fees and
Expenses.
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50
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Section
5.06
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Indemnification
of the
Trustee.
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50
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Section
5.07
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Eligibility
Requirements for Trustee.
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50
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Section
5.08
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Resignation
and
Removal of Trustee.
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51
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Section
5.09
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Successor
Trustee.
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52
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Section
5.10
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Merger
or
Consolidation of Trustee.
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52
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Section
5.11
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Appointment
of
Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee.
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53
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Section
5.12
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Tax
Matters.
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54
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ARTICLE
VI THE DEPOSITOR
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57
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Section
6.01
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Liability
of the
Depositor.
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57
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Section
6.02
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Merger,
Consolidation
or Conversion of the Depositor.
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57
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Section
6.03
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Limitation
on
Liability of the Depositor and Others.
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57
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ARTICLE
VII TERMINATION
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58
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Section
7.01
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Termination.
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58
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Section
7.02
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Final
Distribution on
the Certificates.
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58
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Section
7.03
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Additional
Termination
Requirements.
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59
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ARTICLE
VIII MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
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61
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Section
8.01
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Amendment.
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61
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Section
8.02
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Action
Under and
Conflicts With the Underlying Agreement.
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62
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Section
8.03
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Recordation
of
Agreement.
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63
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Section
8.04
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Certain
REMIC
Matters.
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63
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Section
8.05
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Limitation
on Rights
of Certificateholders.
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63
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Section
8.06
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Governing
Law.
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64
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Section
8.07
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Notices.
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64
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Section
8.08
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Severability
of
Provisions.
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64
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Section
8.09
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Successors
and
Assigns.
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65
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Section
8.10
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Article
and Section
Headings.
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65
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Section
8.11
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Certificates
Nonassessable and Fully Paid.
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65
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Section
8.12
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Protection
of
Assets.
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65
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ARTICLE
IX EXCHANGE ACT REPORTING
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66
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Section
9.01
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Filing
Obligations.
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66
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Section
9.02
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Form
10-D
Filings.
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66
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Section
9.03
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Form
8-K
Filings.
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67
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Section
9.04
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Form
10-K
Filings.
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67
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Section
9.05
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Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx
Certification.
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68
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Section
9.06
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Form
15
Filing.
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68
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Section
9.07
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Report
on Assessment
of Compliance and Attestation.
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68
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Section
9.08
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Use
of
Subcontractors.
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69
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Section
9.09
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Amendments.
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70
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Section
9.10
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Reconciliation
of
Accounts.
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70
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Schedule
I
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List
of Deposited Underlying Certificates and Underlying
Agreements
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Schedule
II
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[Reserved]
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Schedule
III
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Available
Exchanges of Depositable Certificates for Exchangeable
Certificates
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Exhibit
A – Form of Depositable or Exchangeable Certificate (excluding Notional
Amount Certificates)
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A-1
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Exhibit
B – Form of Notional Amount Certificate
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B-1
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Exhibit
C - Form of Residual Certificate
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C-1
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Exhibit
D - Form of Reverse of Certificate
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D-1
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Exhibit
E - Form of Transferor Affidavit
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E-1
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Exhibit
F - Form of Transfer Affidavit for the Class A-R
Certificate
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F-1
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Exhibit
G - Form of Monthly Statement
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F-1
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Exhibit
H - Form of Performance Certification
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H-1
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Exhibit
I - Form of Servicing Criteria to be Addressed in Assessment of
Compliance Statement
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I-1
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Exhibit
J - List of Item 1119 Parties
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J-1
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Exhibit
K - Form of Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Certification
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K-1
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Exhibit
L - Form of Item 1123 Certificate
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L-1
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TRUST
AGREEMENT, dated as of November 26, 2007, by and among CWALT, Inc., as depositor
(the “Depositor”), Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., as underlying certificate
seller (the “Underlying Certificate Seller”), and The Bank of New York, as
trustee (the “Trustee”) and in its capacities as Securities Intermediary and as
Bank (each as defined below).
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS,
the Depositor, the Underlying Certificate Seller and the Trustee desire to
enter
into a trust agreement dated as of the date hereof (the “Trust Agreement”);
and
WHEREAS,
the Underlying Certificate Seller has transferred its interests in and to
the
Deposited Underlying Certificates (as defined herein) to the Depositor pursuant
to a xxxx of sale executed by the Underlying Certificate Seller in favor
of the
Depositor;
NOW
THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements herein contained, the
parties hereto agree as follows:
PRELIMINARY
STATEMENT
The
Depositor is the owner of the Trust Fund that is hereby conveyed to the
Trustee
in return for the Certificates. For federal income tax purposes, the
Trustee shall treat the Trust Fund as consisting of a trust (the “ES Trust”)
beneath which are two real estate mortgage investment conduits (or in the
alternative, the “Lower Tier REMIC” and the “Master REMIC”) and shall make all
elections as necessary for such treatment. The Lower Tier REMIC will
hold all the assets of the Trust Fund and will issue several classes of
uncertificated Lower Tier REMIC Interests. The Class LTR-A-R Interest
is hereby designated as the residual interest in the Lower Tier REMIC and
each
other Lower Tier REMIC Interest is hereby designated as a regular interest
in
the Lower Tier REMIC. The Master REMIC will hold all the regular
interests in the Lower Tier REMIC and will issue several classes of
uncertificated Master REMIC Interests. The Class A-R Interest is
hereby designated as the residual interest in the Master REMIC and each
other
Master REMIC Interest is hereby designated as a regular interest in the
Master
REMIC. The “latest possible maturity date,” for federal income tax
purposes, of all REMIC regular interests created hereby will be the Latest
Possible Maturity Date.
The
ES
Trust shall hold the LTR-A-R Interest, the MR-A-R Interest, all Master
REMIC
regular interests and shall issue the Certificates. Each Certificate,
other than the Class A-R Certificate, will represent ownership of one or
more of
the Master REMIC regular interests held by the ES Trust. The Class
A-R Certificate will represent ownership of the LTR-A-R Interest and the
MR-A-R
Interest, which are, respectively, the sole Classes of REMIC residual interest
in each of the Lower Tier REMIC and the Master REMIC.
For
federal income tax purposes the Trustee shall treat the ES Trust as a Grantor
Trust and shall treat each Holder of an ES Trust Certificate as the owner
of the
individual, underlying assets represented by such ES Trust
Certificate. In addition, to the fullest extent possible, ownership
of an ES Trust Certificate shall be treated as direct ownership of the
individual, underlying assets represented by such ES Trust Certificate
for
federal income tax reporting purposes. The ES Trust will not form
part of any REMIC.
The
following table sets forth characteristics of the ES Trust Certificates,
together with the minimum denominations and integral multiples in excess
thereof
in which such Classes shall be issuable (except that one Residual Certificate
representing the Tax Matters Person Certificate may be issued in a different
amount):
Class
Design-ation
|
Initial
Maximum Class
Certificate
Balance
or Notional Amount
|
Pass-Through
Rate
(per
annum)
|
Minimum
Denomination
|
Integral
Multiples
in
Excess of
Minimum
|
Possible
Classes of Master REMIC Interests Represented (7)
|
Class A-1
|
$29,258,519
|
7.00%
|
$25,000.00
|
$1.00
|
XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X, XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X, XX-X-0X, XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X
|
Class A-2
|
$12,539,408
|
7.00%
|
$25,000.00
|
$1.00
|
XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X, XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X, XX-X-0X, XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X
|
Class A-3
|
$29,258,519
|
(1)
|
$25,000.00
|
$1.00
|
XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X, XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X
|
Class A-4
|
$29,258,519(2)
|
(3)
|
$25,000.00(4)
|
$1.00(4)
|
XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X, XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X
|
Class A-5
|
$29,258,519
|
5.50%
|
$25,000.00
|
$1.00
|
XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X
|
Xxxxx X-0
|
$29,258,519
|
6.00%
|
$25,000.00
|
$1.00
|
XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X,
|
Class A-7
|
$29,258,519
|
6.50%
|
$25,000.00
|
$1.00
|
XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X, XX-X-0X
|
Class A-8
|
$6,269,682(2)
|
7.00%
|
$25,000.00(4)
|
$1.00(4)
|
XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X, XX-X-0X, XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X
|
Class A-9
|
$12,539,408
|
(1)
|
$25,000.00
|
$1.00
|
XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X, XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X
|
Class A-10
|
$12,539,408(2)
|
(3)
|
$25,000.00(4)
|
$1.00(4)
|
XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X, XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X
|
Class A-11
|
$12,539,408
|
5.50%
|
$25,000.00
|
$1.00
|
XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X
|
Class A-12
|
$12,539,408
|
6.00%
|
$25,000.00
|
$1.00
|
XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X,
|
Class A-13
|
$12,539,408
|
6.50%
|
$25,000.00
|
$1.00
|
XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X, XX-X-0X
|
Class A-14
|
$2,687,016
|
7.00%
|
$25,000.00(4)
|
$1.00(4)
|
XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X, XX-X-0X, XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X
|
Class A-R
(5)
|
$100
|
7.00%
|
(6)
|
(6)
|
N/A
|
(1)
|
The
Pass-Through Rate for this Class of Certificates for the Interest
Accrual
Period for any Distribution Date will be a per annum rate of
LIBOR +
0.45%, subject to a maximum and minimum Pass-Through Rate of
7.00% and
0.45% per annum, respectively. The Pass-Through Rate for this
Class of
Certificates for the Interest Accrual Period for the first Distribution
Date is 5.477% per annum.
|
(2)
|
This
Class will be a Class of Notional Amount Certificates, will have
no Class
Certificate Balance and will bear interest on its Notional Amount.
|
(3)
|
The
Pass-Through Rate on for this Class of Certificates for the Interest
Accrual Period for any Distribution Date will be a per annum
rate of 6.55%
- LIBOR, subject to a maximum
|
2
and
minimum Pass-Through Rate of 6.55% and 0.00% per
annum, respectively. The Pass-Through Rate for this Class of Certificates
for
the Interest Accrual Period for the first Distribution Date is 1.523% per
annum.
(4)
|
Minimum
denomination is based on the Notional Amount of such Class.
|
(5)
|
The
Class A-R Certificate evidences the sole Class of residual
interest in the Master REMIC.
|
(6)
|
The
Class A-R Certificate shall be issued as two separate certificates,
one with an initial Certificate Balance of $99.99 and the Tax
Matters
Person Certificate with an initial Certificate Balance of $0.01.
|
(7)
|
See
Schedule III for information regarding the Combinations of the
Depositable
and Exchangeable Certificates related to these uncertificated
Master REMIC
Interests.
|
It
is not
intended that the Class A-R Certificates be entitled to any cash flow pursuant
to this Agreement except as provided in Section 3.04(a)(1)(i) and Section
3.04(a)(2)(A) hereunder, (that is, its entitlement to $100 plus interest
thereon).
3
The
following table specifies the class designation, interest rate, and principal
amount for each class of Master REMIC Interest:
Master
REMIC
Interest
|
Initial
Principal
Balance
|
Interest
Rate
|
Possible
Corresponding
ES
Trust
Certificates
|
MR-A-1A
|
$ 29,258,519
|
(1)
|
X-0,
X-0, X-0, X-0, X-0
|
XX-X-0X
|
$ 29,258,519(2)
|
(3)
|
X-0,
X-0, X-0, X-0, X-0
|
XX-X-0X
|
$ 29,258,519(2)
|
(4)
|
X-0,
X-0, X-0, X-0, X-0
|
XX-X-0X
|
$ 29,258,519(2)
|
(5)
|
X-0,
X-0, X-0
|
XX-X-0X
|
$ 29,258,519(2)
|
(6)
|
X-0,
X-0, X-0, X-0
|
XX-X-0X
|
$ 29,258,519(2)
|
(7)
|
X-0,
X-0, X-0
|
XX-X-0X
|
$ 29,258,519(2)
|
(8)
|
X-0,
X-0, X-0
|
XX-X-0X
|
$ 29,258,519(2)
|
(9)
|
X-0,
X-0, X-0
|
XX-X-0X
|
$ 12,539,408
|
(1)
|
X-0,
X-0, X-00, X-00, X-00
|
XX-X-0X
|
$ 12,539,408(2)
|
(3)
|
X-0,
X-00, X-00, X-00, X-00
|
XX-X-0X
|
$ 12,539,408(2)
|
(4)
|
X-0,
X-0, X-00, X-00, X-00
|
XX-X-0X
|
$ 12,539,408(2)
|
(5)
|
X-0,
X-00, X-00
|
XX-X-0X
|
$ 12,539,408(2)
|
(6)
|
X-0,
X-0, X-00, X-00
|
XX-X-0X
|
$ 12,539,408(2)
|
(7)
|
X-0,
X-00, X-00
|
XX-X-0X
|
$ 12,539,408(2)
|
(8)
|
X-0,
X-0, X-00
|
XX-X-0X
|
$ 12,539,408(2)
|
(9)
|
X-0,
X-00, X-00
|
XX-X-X
|
(10)
|
(10)
|
N/A
|
|
(1)
|
The
Class MR-A-1A and Class MR-A-2A Master REMIC Interests will bear
interest
during each Interest Accrual Period at a per annum rate of LIBOR
plus
0.45%, subject to a maximum and minimum Pass-Through Rate of
5.50% and
0.45% per annum, respectively.
|
|
(2)
|
This
Class will be a Class of Notional Amount Master REMIC Interests,
will have
no Class Certificate Balance and will bear interest on its Notional
Amount. This class of Master REMIC Interest pays no principal.
|
|
(3)
|
The
Class MR-A1B and Class MR-A-2B Master REMIC Interests will bear
interest
during each Interest Accrual Period at a per annum rate equal
to 5.05% -
LIBOR,
|
4
subject
to a maximum and minimum Pass-Through Rate of
5.05% and 0.00% per annum, respectively.
|
(4)
|
The
Class MR-A-1C and Class MR-A-2C Master REMIC Interests will bear
interest
during each Interest Accrual Period at a per annum rate of the
sum of (i)
LIBOR plus 0.45% (subject to a cap of 6%) minus (ii) 5.50% ,
subject to a
maximum and minimum Pass-Through Rate of 0.50% and 0.00% per
annum,
respectively.
|
|
(5)
|
The
Class MR-A-1D and Class MR-A-2D Master REMIC Interests will bear
interest
during each Interest Accrual Period at a per annum rate of 5.55%
minus
LIBOR, subject to a maximum and minimum Pass-Through Rate of
0.50% and
0.00% per annum, respectively.
|
|
(6)
|
The
Class MR-A-1E and Class MR-A-2E Master REMIC Interests will bear
interest
during each Interest Accrual Period at a per annum rate of the
sum of (i)
LIBOR plus 0.45% (subject to a cap of 6.50%) minus (ii) 6.00%
, subject to
a maximum and minimum Pass-Through Rate of 0.50% and 0.00% per
annum,
respectively.
|
|
(7)
|
The
Class MR-A-1F and Class MR-A-2F Master REMIC Interests will bear
interest
during each Interest Accrual Period at a per annum rate of 6.05%
minus
LIBOR, subject to a maximum and minimum Pass-Through Rate of
0.50% and
0.00% per annum, respectively.
|
|
(8)
|
The
Class MR-A-1G and Class MR-A-2G Master REMIC Interests will bear
interest
during each Interest Accrual Period at a per annum rate of the
sum of (i)
LIBOR plus 0.45% (subject to a cap of 7%) minus (ii) 6.50% ,
subject to a
maximum and minimum Pass-Through Rate of 0.50% and 0.00% per
annum,
respectively.
|
|
(9)
|
The
Class MR-A-1H and Class MR-A-2H Master REMIC Interests will bear
interest
during each Interest Accrual Period at a per annum rate of 6.55%
minus
LIBOR, subject to a maximum and minimum Pass-Through Rate of
0.50% and
0.00% per annum, respectively.
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(10)
|
The
Class MTR-A-R Master REMIC Interest represents the sole Class
of residual
interest in the Master REMIC.
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The
following table specifies the class designation, interest rate, and principal
amount for each class of Lower Tier REMIC Interests:
Lower
Tier REMIC
Interest
|
Initial
Principal
Balance
|
Interest
Rate
|
Corresponding
Master
REMIC
Interest
|
LTR-A-1
|
$ 29,258,519
|
7.00%
|
XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X, XX-X-0X, XX-X-0X, XX-X-0X, XX-X-0X, XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X(0)
|
LTR
A-2
|
$ 12,539,408
|
7.00%
|
XX-X-0X,
XX-X-0X, XX-X-0X, XX-X-0X, XX-X-0X, XX-X-0X, XX-X-0X,
MR-A-2H(2)
|
LTR-1-$100
|
$ 100
|
7.00%
|
MR-A-R
|
LTR-A-R
|
(3)
|
(3)
|
N/A
|
(1)
|
For
each Distribution Date, the Class A-1A, Class A-1B, Class A-1C,
Class
A-1D, Class A-1E, Class A-1F, Class A-1G and Class A-1H Master
REMIC
Interests are entitled to a specified portion of the interest
payable on
the Class LTR-A-1 Lower Tier REMIC Interest. Specifically, for
each
Distribution Date, (i) the Class A-1A Master REMIC Interest is
entitled to
interest payable on the Class LTR-A-1 Lower Tier REMIC Interest
at a per
annum rate of LIBOR plus 0.45%, subject to a maximum and minimum
Pass-Through Rate of 5.50% and 0.45% per annum, respectively,
(ii) the
Class A-1B Master REMIC Interest is entitled to interest payable
on the
Class LTR-A-1 Lower Tier REMIC Interest at a per annum rate of
5.05% -
LIBOR, subject to a maximum and minimum Pass-Through Rate of
5.05% and
0.00% per annum, respectively, (iii) the Class A-1C Master REMIC
Interest
is entitled to interest payable on the Class LTR-A-1 Lower Tier
REMIC
Interest at a per annum rate of (A) LIBOR plus 0.45% (subject
to a cap of
6%) minus (B) 5.50% , subject to a maximum and minimum Pass-Through
Rate
of 0.50% and 0.00% per annum, respectively, (iv) the Class A-1D
Master
REMIC Interest is entitled to interest payable on the Class LTR-A-1
Lower
Tier REMIC Interest at a per annum rate of 5.55% minus LIBOR,
subject to a
maximum and minimum Pass-Through Rate of 0.50% and 0.00% per
annum,
respectively, (v) the Class A-1E Master REMIC Interest is entitled
to
interest payable on the Class LTR-A-1 Lower Tier REMIC Interest
at a per
annum rate of (A) LIBOR plus 0.45% (subject to a cap of 6.5%)
minus (B)
6.00% , subject to a maximum and minimum Pass-Through Rate of
0.50% and
0.00% per annum, respectively, (vi) the Class A-1F Master REMIC
Interest
is entitled to interest payable on the Class LTR-A-1 Lower Tier
REMIC
Interest at a per annum rate of 6.05% minus LIBOR, subject to
a maximum
and minimum Pass-Through Rate of 0.50% and 0.00% per annum, respectively,
(vii) the Class A-1G Master REMIC Interest is entitled to interest
payable
on the Class LTR-A-1 Lower Tier REMIC Interest at a per annum
rate of (A)
LIBOR plus 0.45% (subject to a cap of 7.00%) minus (B) 6.50%
, subject to
a maximum and minimum Pass-Through Rate of 0.50% and 0.00% per
annum,
respectively and (viii) the Class A-1H Master REMIC Interest
is entitled
to interest payable on the Class
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LTR-A-1
Lower Tier REMIC Interest at a per annum rate
of 6.55% minus LIBOR, subject to a maximum and minimum Pass-Through Rate
of
0.50% and 0.00% per annum, respectively.
(2)
|
For
each Distribution Date, the Class A-2A, Class A-2B, Class A-2C,
Class
A-2D, Class A-2E, Class A-2F, Class A-2G and Class A-2H Master
REMIC
Interests are entitled to a specified portion of the interest
payable on
the Class LTR-A-2 Lower Tier REMIC Interest. Specifically, for
each
Distribution Date, (i) the Class A-2A Master REMIC Interest is
entitled to
interest payable on the Class LTR-A-2 Lower Tier REMIC Interest
at a per
annum rate of LIBOR plus 0.45%, subject to a maximum and minimum
Pass-Through Rate of 5.50% and 0.45% per annum, respectively,
(ii) the
Class A-2B Master REMIC Interest is entitled to interest payable
on the
Class LTR-A-2 Lower Tier REMIC Interest at a per annum rate of
5.05% -
LIBOR, subject to a maximum and minimum Pass-Through Rate of
5.05% and
0.00% per annum, respectively, (iii) the Class A-2C Master REMIC
Interest
is entitled to interest payable on the Class LTR-A-2 Lower Tier
REMIC
Interest at a per annum rate of (A) LIBOR plus 0.45% (subject
to a cap of
6%) minus (B) 5.50% , subject to a maximum and minimum Pass-Through
Rate
of 0.50% and 0.00% per annum, respectively, (iv) the Class A-2D
Master
REMIC Interest is entitled to interest payable on the Class LTR-A-2
Lower
Tier REMIC Interest at a per annum rate of 5.55% minus LIBOR,
subject to a
maximum and minimum Pass-Through Rate of 0.50% and 0.00% per
annum,
respectively, (v) the Class A-2E Master REMIC Interest is entitled
to
interest payable on the Class LTR-A-2 Lower Tier REMIC Interest
at a per
annum rate of (A) LIBOR plus 0.45% (subject to a cap of 6.5%)
minus (B)
6.00% , subject to a maximum and minimum Pass-Through Rate of
0.50% and
0.00% per annum, respectively, (vi) the Class A-2F Master REMIC
Interest
is entitled to interest payable on the Class LTR-A-2 Lower Tier
REMIC
Interest at a per annum rate of 6.05% minus LIBOR, subject to
a maximum
and minimum Pass-Through Rate of 0.50% and 0.00% per annum, respectively,
(vii) the Class A-2G Master REMIC Interest is entitled to interest
payable
on the Class LTR-A-2 Lower Tier REMIC Interest at a per annum
rate of (A)
LIBOR plus 0.45% (subject to a cap of 7.00%) minus (B) 6.50%
, subject to
a maximum and minimum Pass-Through Rate of 0.50% and 0.00% per
annum,
respectively and (viii) the Class A-2H Master REMIC Interest
is entitled
to interest payable on the Class LTR-A-2 Lower Tier REMIC Interest
at a
per annum rate of 6.55% minus LIBOR, subject to a maximum and
minimum
Pass-Through Rate of 0.50% and 0.00% per annum, respectively.
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(3)
|
The
LT-A-R is the sole class of residual interest in the Lower Tier
REMIC. It pays no interest or principal.
|
On
each Distribution Date, interest
shall be payable on the Lower Tier REMIC Interests according the formulas
described above, and principal, Realized Losses and Subsequent Recoveries
shall
be allocated among the Lower Tier REMIC Interests in the same manner that
such
items are allocated among their corresponding Certificate Classes.
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.
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Accretion
Directed
Certificates
|
None.
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Accrual
Certificates
|
None.
|
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Accrual
Components
|
None.
|
|||
Book-Entry
Certificates
|
All
Classes of Certificates other than the Physical
Certificates.
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|||
Component
Certificates
|
None.
|
|||
Components
|
For
purposes of calculating distributions, the Component Certificates
will be
comprised of multiple payment components having the designations,
Initial
Component Balances and Pass-Through Rates set forth
below:
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Designation
|
Initial
Component
Balance
|
Pass-
Through
Rate
|
||
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
||
Delay
Certificates
|
All
interest-bearing Classes of Certificates other than the Non-Delay
Certificates, if any.
|
|||
Depositable
Certificates
|
Class
A-1 and Class A-2 Certificates.
|
|||
ERISA-Restricted
Certificates
|
Residual
Certificates; and any Certificate of a Class that ceases to satisfy
the
applicable rating requirement under the Underwriter’s
Exemption.
|
|||
Exchangeable
Certificates
|
Class
A-3, Class A-4, Class A-5, Class A-6, Class A-7, Class A-8, Class
A-9,
Class A-10, Class A-11, Class A-12, Class A-13 and Class A-14
Certificates.
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|||
Floating
Rate Certificates
|
Class
A-3 and Class A-9 Certificates.
|
|||
Inverse
Floating Rate
Certificates.
|
Class
A-4 and Class A-10 Certificates.
|
|||
COFI
Certificates
|
None.
|
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LIBOR
Certificates
|
Floating
Rate and Inverse Floating Rate Certificates.
|
Non-Delay
Certificates
|
LIBOR
Certificates.
|
Notional
Amount
Certificates
|
Class
A-4, Class A-8, Class A-10 and Class A-14 Certificates.
|
Notional
Amount Components
|
None.
|
Offered
Certificates
|
All
Classes of Certificates.
|
Physical
Certificates
|
Residual
Certificates.
|
Planned
Principal Classes
|
None.
|
Planned
Principal Components
|
None.
|
Principal
Only Certificates
|
None.
|
Rating
Agencies
|
S&P
and Xxxxx’x.
|
Regular
Certificates
|
All
Classes of Certificates other than the Residual
Certificates.
|
Residual
Certificates
|
Class
A-R Certificate.
|
Scheduled
Principal
Classes
|
None.
|
Senior
Certificates
|
Class
A-1, Class A-2 and Class A-R Certificates.
|
Subordinated
Certificates
|
None.
|
Targeted
Principal Classes
|
None.
|
Targeted
Principal
Components
|
None.
|
Underwriter
|
Deutsche
Bank Securities Inc.
|
With
respect to any of the foregoing designations as to which the corresponding
reference is “None,” all defined terms and provisions herein relating solely to
such designations shall be of no force or effect, and any calculations herein
incorporating references to such designations shall be interpreted without
reference to such designations and amounts. Defined terms
and
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provisions
herein relating to statistical rating agencies not designated above as
Rating
Agencies shall be of no force or effect.
ARTICLE
I
DEFINITIONS
Section
1.01 Defined
Terms. Whenever used in this Agreement, the following words
and phrases, unless the context otherwise requires, shall have the following
meanings:
Account: The
Distribution Account, Securities Account, Exchangeable Certificates Distribution
Account or any other account related to the Trust Fund.
Accretion
Directed
Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Accretion
Direction
Rule: Not applicable.
Accrual
Amount: With respect to any Class of Accrual Certificates
and any Distribution Date prior to the Accrual Termination Date, the amount
allocable to interest on such Class of Accrual Certificates with respect to
such Distribution Date pursuant to Section 3.04(a)(ii).
Accrual
Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Accrual
Components: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Accrual
Termination
Date: Not applicable.
Additional
Designated
Information: As defined in Section 9.02.
Aggregate
Planned
Balance: With respect to any group of Planned Principal
Classes or Components and any Distribution Date, the amount set forth for
such
group for such Distribution Date in Schedule II hereto.
Aggregate
Targeted
Balance: With respect to any group of Targeted Principal
Classes or Components and any Distribution Date, the amount set forth for
such
group for such Distribution Date in Schedule II hereto.
Agreement: This
Trust Agreement and all amendments hereof and supplements hereto.
Allocated
Underlying Net
Interest Shortfalls: As to any Distribution Date, the
Underlying Net Interest Shortfalls allocated to the Deposited Underlying
Certificates in accordance with the Underlying Agreement in connection with
distributions thereon for such Distribution Date.
Allocated
Underlying Net
Prepayment Interest Shortfalls: As to any Distribution Date,
the Underlying Net Prepayment Interest Shortfalls allocated to the Deposited
Underlying Certificates in accordance with the Underlying Agreement in
connection with distributions thereon for such Distribution Date.
Allocated
Underlying
Realized Losses: As to any Distribution Date, the Underlying
Realized Losses allocated to the Deposited Underlying Certificates in accordance
with the Underlying Agreement in connection with distributions thereon for
such
Distribution Date.
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Available
Interest
Funds: As to any Distribution Date, the aggregate of all
previously undistributed amounts received by the Trustee on or prior to
such
Distribution Date as distributions of interest on the Deposited Underlying
Certificates.
Available
Principal
Funds: As to any Distribution Date, the aggregate of all previously
undistributed amounts received by the Trustee on or prior to such Distribution
Date as distributions of principal on the Deposited Underlying Certificates,
reduced by the sum of expenses and liabilities reimbursable to the Depositor
pursuant to Section 6.03 hereof and any taxes and related expenses imposed
on
the Trust Fund to be paid from amounts otherwise distributable to
Certificateholders pursuant to Section 5.12 hereof (in each case, that have
not
been previously paid by a reduction of Available Principal Funds).
Bank:
As defined in
Section 3.02.
Book-Entry
Certificate: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Business
Day: Any day
other than (i) a Saturday or a Sunday, or (ii) a day on which banking
institutions in the City of New York, New York, or the State of California
or
the city in which the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee is located are
authorized or obligated by law or executive order to be closed.
Capitalized
Interest
Account: Not applicable.
Certificate: Any
one of the Certificates executed by the Trustee substantially in the forms
attached hereto as exhibits.
Certificate
Balance: With respect to any Certificate at any date, the
maximum dollar amount of principal to which the Holder thereof is then entitled
hereunder, such amount being equal to the Denomination thereof (A) plus any
Underlying Subsequent Recoveries added to the Certificate Balance of such
Certificate pursuant to Section 3.04, and (B) minus the sum of (i) all
distributions of principal previously made with respect thereto and (ii)
all
Underlying Realized Losses allocated thereto and, all other reductions in
Certificate Balance (including the pro rata portion of certain expenses and
liabilities reimbursable to the Depositor pursuant to Section 3.03(b) and
any
taxes and related expenses imposed on the Trust Fund paid pursuant to Section
3.03(c)) previously allocated thereto pursuant to Section 3.06.
Certificate
Group: Not applicable.
Certificateholder
or
Holder: The person in whose name a Certificate is registered
in the Certificate Register, except that, solely for the purpose of giving
any
consent pursuant to this Agreement, any Certificate registered in the name
of
the Depositor or any affiliate of the Depositor shall be deemed not to be
Outstanding and the Percentage Interest evidenced thereby shall not be taken
into account in determining whether the requisite amount of Percentage Interests
necessary to effect such consent has been obtained; provided, however,
that if any
such Person (including the Depositor) owns 100% of the Percentage Interests
evidenced by a Class of
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Certificates,
such Certificates shall be deemed to be Outstanding for purposes of any
provision hereof that requires the consent of the Holders of Certificates
of a
particular Class as a condition to the taking of any action
hereunder. The Trustee is entitled to rely conclusively on a
certification of the Depositor or any affiliate of the Depositor in determining
which Certificates are registered in the name of an affiliate of the
Depositor.
Certificate
Owner:
With respect to a Book-Entry Certificate, the Person who is the beneficial
owner
of such Book-Entry Certificate. For the purposes of this Agreement,
in order for a Certificate Owner to enforce any rights hereunder, it shall
first
have to provide evidence of its beneficial ownership in a Certificate that
is
reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee or the Depositor, as
applicable.
Certificate
Register: The register maintained pursuant to Section
4.02(a).
Certification
Party: As defined in Section 9.05.
Certifying
Party: As defined in Section 9.05.
Class: All
Certificates bearing the same Class designation as set forth in the Preliminary
Statement.
Class
2-A-1 Deposited
Underlying Certificates: A 50% percentage interest in the
CWALT, Inc., Alternative Loan Trust 2006-39CB, Mortgage Pass-Through
Certificates, Series 2006-39CB, Class 2-A-1 Certificates.
Class
2-A-2 Deposited
Underlying Certificates: A 30.1242103% percentage interest in
the CWALT, Inc., Alternative Loan Trust 2006-39CB, Mortgage Pass-Through
Certificates, Series 2006-39CB, Class 2-A-2 Certificates.
Class
A-R
Certificate: Collectively, the single Certificate and the Tax
Matters Person Certificate, in each case executed and countersigned by the
Trustee.
Class
Certificate
Balance: With respect to any Class and as to any date of
determination, the aggregate of the Certificate Balances of all Certificates
of
such Class as of such date.
Class
Interest
Shortfall: As to any Distribution Date and Class, the amount
by which the amount described in clause (i) of the definition of Class Optimal
Interest Distribution Amount for such Class exceeds the amount of interest
actually distributed on such Class on such Distribution Date pursuant to
such
clause (i).
Class
Optimal Interest
Distribution Amount: With respect to any Distribution Date and
interest bearing Class or, with respect to any interest bearing component,
the
sum of (i) one month’s interest accrued during the related Interest Accrual
Period at the Pass-Through Rate for such Class on the related Class Certificate
Balance, Component Balance, Notional Amount or Component Notional Amount,
as
applicable, immediately prior to such Distribution Date, subject to reduction
as
provided in 3.04(e) and (ii) any Class Unpaid Interest Amounts for such Class
or
Component.
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Class
Unpaid Interest
Amounts: As to any Distribution Date and Class of interest
bearing Certificates, the amount by which the aggregate Class Interest
Shortfalls for such Class on prior Distribution Dates exceeds the amount
distributed on such Class on prior Distribution Dates pursuant to clause
(ii) of
the definition of Class Optimal Interest Distribution Amount.
Closing
Date: December 18, 2007.
Code:
The Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, including any successor or amendatory
provisions.
Combination
Group: The Class or Classes of Depositable Certificates and
the related Class or Classes of Exchangeable Certificates included within
any
particular “Combination” specified in Schedule III.
Commission: The
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Component
Balance: With respect to any Component and any Distribution
Date, the Initial Component Balance thereof on the Closing Date, (A) plus
any
Underlying Subsequent Recoveries added to the Component Balance of such
Component pursuant to Section 3.04, (B) minus the sum of all amounts applied
in
reduction of the principal balance of such Component and Realized Losses
allocated thereto on previous Distribution Dates.
Component
Certificates: Not applicable.
Component
Notional
Amount: Not applicable.
Corporate
Trust
Office: The designated office of the Trustee in the State of New York at
which at any particular time its corporate trust business with respect to
this
Agreement shall be administered, which office at the date of the execution
of
this Agreement is located at 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, 0X, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
(Attn: Resecuritization Group, CWALT, Inc.
Series 2007-26R, facsimile no. (000) 000-0000/9), and which is the
address to which notices to and correspondence with the Trustee should be
directed.
Corresponding
Classes of
Certificates: Not applicable.
Delivery:
When used
with respect to any Distribution Account Property or Securities Account Property
means delivery of such Distribution Account Property or Securities Account
Property, as applicable, as follows (terms used in the following provisions
that
are not otherwise defined are used as defined in Article 8 of the
UCC):
(1) in
the case of each certificated security (other than a clearing corporation
security (as defined below)) or instrument, by:
(A) the
delivery of such certificated security or instrument to the Securities
Intermediary registered in the name of the Securities Intermediary or its
affiliated nominee or endorsed to the Securities Intermediary or in
blank,
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(B) the
Securities Intermediary continuously indicating by book-entry that such
certificated security or instrument is credited to the Securities Account,
and
(C) the
Securities Intermediary maintaining continuous possession of such certificated
security or instrument in the State of New York;
(2) in
the case of each uncertificated security (other than a clearing corporation
security), by causing:
(A) such
uncertificated security to be continuously registered on the books of the
issuer
thereof to the Securities Intermediary, and
(B) the
Securities Intermediary continuously indicating by book-entry that such
uncertificated security is credited to the Securities Account;
(3) in
the case of each security in the custody of or maintained on the books of
a
clearing corporation or its nominee (a “clearing corporation security”), by
causing:
(A) the
relevant clearing corporation to credit such clearing corporation security
to
the securities account of the Securities Intermediary, and
(B) the
Securities Intermediary continuously indicating by book-entry that such clearing
corporation security is credited to the Securities Account;
(4) in
the case of each security issued or guaranteed by the United States of America
or agency or instrumentality thereof and that is maintained in book-entry
records of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (“FRBNY”) (each such security, a
“government security”), by causing:
(A) the
creation of a security entitlement to such government security by the credit
of
such government security to the securities account of the Securities
Intermediary at the FRBNY, and
(B) the
Securities Intermediary continuously indicating by book-entry that such
government security is credited to the Securities Account;
(5) in
the case of each security entitlement not governed by clauses (1) through
(4) above, by:
(A) causing
a securities intermediary (x) to indicate by book-entry that the underlying
“financial asset” (as defined in Section 8-102(a)(9) of the UCC) has been
credited to be the Securities Intermediary’s securities account, (y) to
receive a financial asset from the Securities Intermediary or acquiring the
underlying financial asset for the Securities Intermediary, and in either
case,
accepting it for credit to the Securities Intermediary’s securities account or
(z) to be become obligated under other law, regulation or rule to credit
the underlying financial asset to the Security Intermediary’s securities
account,
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(B) the
making by such securities intermediary of entries on its books and records
continuously identifying such security entitlement as belonging to the
Securities Intermediary and continuously indicating by book-entry that such
securities entitlement is credited to the Securities Intermediary’s securities
account, and
(C) the
Securities Intermediary continuously indicating by book-entry that such security
entitlement (or all rights and property of the Securities Intermediary
representing such securities entitlement) is credited to the Securities Account;
and
(6) in
the case of cash or money, by:
(A) the
delivery of such cash or money to the Bank, and
(B) the
Bank’s continuously crediting such cash or money to the Distribution
Account.
Denomination: With
respect to each Certificate, the amount set forth on the face thereof as
the
“Initial Certificate Balance of this Certificate” or the “Initial Notional
Amount of this Certificate” or, if neither of the foregoing, the Percentage
Interest appearing on the face thereof.
Depositable
Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Deposited
Underlying
Certificates: As set forth on Schedule I hereto.
Depositor: CWALT,
Inc., a Delaware corporation, or its successors in interest.
Depository: The
Depository Trust Company, or any successor Depository hereafter
named. The nominee of the initial Depository for purposes of
registering those Certificates that are to be Book-Entry Certificates is
Cede
& Co. The Depository shall at all times be a “clearing
corporation” as defined in Section 8-102(a)(5) of the Uniform Commercial Code of
the State of New York and a “clearing agency” registered pursuant to the
provisions of Section 17A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.
Depository
Participant: A broker, dealer, bank or other financial
institution or other Person for whom from time to time a Depository effects
book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with the
Depository.
Definitive
Certificate: Any definitive, fully registered
Certificate.
Delay
Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Distribution
Account:
The separate Eligible Account created and maintained by the Trustee pursuant
to
Section 3.02 in the name of the Trustee for the benefit of the
Certificateholders and designated “The Bank of New York in trust for registered
holders of CWALT, Inc. Alternative Loan Trust Resecuritization 2007-26R,
Resecuritization Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-26R.” Funds
in, and other property credited to, the Distribution Account shall be held
in
trust for the Certificateholders for the uses and purposes set forth in this
Agreement.
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Distribution
Account
Property: The Distribution Account, all amounts, investments
and other property held from time to time in the Distribution Account, and
all
proceeds of the foregoing.
Distribution
Date: The same day as each Underlying Distribution
Date.
XXXXX: The
Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval
system.
Eligible
Account: Any of (i) an account or accounts maintained with a
federal or state chartered depository institution or trust company the
short-term unsecured debt obligations of which (or, in the case of a depository
institution or trust company that does not have the requisite ratings and
is the
principal subsidiary of a holding company, the debt obligations of such holding
company) have (a) the highest short-term ratings of Moody’s or Fitch and (b) (1)
if such Eligible Account is not a Pre-Funding Account or a Capitalized Interest
Account, one of the two highest short-term ratings of S&P (or, if such
entity does not have a short-term rating from S&P, the long-term unsecured
and unsubordinated debt obligations of such entity have a rating from S&P of
at least “BBB+”) and (2) if such Eligible Account is a Pre-Funding Account or a
Capitalized Interest Account, the highest short-term ratings of S&P (or, if
such entity does not have a short-term rating from S&P, the long-term
unsecured and unsubordinated debt obligations of such entity have a rating
from
S&P of at least “A+”) (ii) a segregated trust account or accounts maintained
with the corporate trust department of a federal or state chartered depository
institution subject to regulations regarding fiduciary funds on deposit similar
to Title 12 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Chapter I, Part 9, Section
9.10(b), which has corporate trust powers, acting in its fiduciary capacity
or
(iii) any other account acceptable to each Rating Agency. Eligible
Accounts may bear interest, and may include, if otherwise qualified under
this
definition, accounts maintained with the Trustee. In the event that
the federal or state chartered depository institution or trust company
maintaining an Eligible Account described in clause (i) above no longer
satisfies the credit rating of S&P set forth in clause (i)(b)(1) above then
the Person responsible for establishing such Eligible Account shall cause
any
amounts on deposit therein to be moved to another federal or state chartered
depository institution or trust company satisfying such credit rating of
S&P
within 30 calendar days. In the event that the federal or state
chartered depository institution or trust company maintaining an Eligible
Account described in clause (i) above no longer satisfies the credit rating
of
S&P set forth in clause (i)(b)(2) above then the Person responsible for
establishing such Eligible Account shall cause any amounts on deposit therein
to
be moved to another federal or state chartered depository institution or
trust
company satisfying such credit rating of S&P within 60 calendar
days.
ERISA: The
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.
ERISA-Qualifying
Underwriting: A best efforts or firm commitment underwriting
or private placement that meets the requirements of an Underwriter’s
Exemption.
ERISA-Restricted
Certificate: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
ES
Trust: The separate trust created under this Agreement
pursuant to Section 4.07(a).
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ES
Trust
Certificate: Any Class of Certificates issued by the ES Trust
and representing beneficial ownership of one or more uncertificated Master
REMIC
Interests held by such ES Trust.
Exchange
Act: The Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the
rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
Exchange
Act
Reports: Any reports on Form 10-D, Form 8-K and Form 10-K
required to by filed by the Depositor with respect to the Trust Fund under
the
Exchange Act.
Exchange
Date: As
defined in Section 4.07(e).
Exchange
Fee: As defined in Section 4.07(e).
Exchangeable
Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Exchangeable
Certificates
Distribution Account: The separate Eligible Account created
and maintained by the Trustee on behalf of the ES Trust pursuant to Section
4.07(a) in the name of the Trustee for the benefit of the Holders of the
Exchangeable Certificates and designated “The Bank of New York in trust for
registered Holders of Alternative Loan Trust 2007-26R, Mortgage Pass-Through
Certificates, Series 2007-26R.” Funds in the Exchangeable
Certificates Distribution Account shall be held in trust for the
Certificateholders for the uses and purposes set forth in this
Agreement.
Fitch: Fitch,
Inc., or any successor thereto. If Fitch is designated as a Rating
Agency in the Preliminary Statement, the address for notices to Fitch shall
be
Fitch, Inc., Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention:
Residential Pass-Through Monitoring, or such other address as Fitch may
hereafter furnish to the Depositor.
Form
10-D Disclosure
Item: With respect to any Person, any material litigation or
governmental proceedings pending against such Person, or against any of the
Trust Fund, the Depositor, the Trustee or any co-trustee, if such Person
has
actual knowledge thereof.
Form
10-K Disclosure
Item: With respect to any Person, (a) any Form 10-D Disclosure
Item and (b) any affiliations or relationships between such Person and any
Item
1119 Party.
Grantor
Trust: A trust described in section 671 of the Code, the items
of income, deductions and credits of which must be included in computing
the
taxable income and credits of the person treated as the owner of such trust
(either the grantor or other person designated under the Code).
Initial
Class Certificate
Balance: With respect to each Class of Certificates, the Class
Certificate Balance of such Class on the Closing Date.
Initial
LIBOR
Rate: 5.027% per annum.
Interest
Accrual
Period: With respect to each Class of Delay Certificates, its
corresponding Lower Tier REMIC Regular Interest and any Distribution Date,
the
calendar
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month
prior to the month of such Distribution Date. With respect to any
Class of Non-Delay Certificates, its corresponding Lower Tier REMIC Regular
Interest and any Distribution Date, the one month period commencing on the
25th
day of the month preceding the month in which such Distribution Date occurs
and
ending on the 24th day of the month in which such Distribution Date
occurs.
Interest
Determination
Date: Not applicable.
Interest
Rate: Not applicable.
Investment
Company
Act: The Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended.
Item
1119
Party: The Depositor, any Underlying Certificate Seller, the
Trustee and any other material transaction party, as identified in Exhibit
J
hereto, as updated pursuant to Section 9.04.
Latest
Possible Maturity
Date: The “Latest Possible Maturity Date” as defined in the
Underlying Agreement.
LIBOR: The
London interbank offered rate for one-month United States dollar deposits
calculated in the manner described in Section 3.07.
LIBOR
Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Limited
Exchange Act
Reporting Obligations: The obligations of the Trustee under
Section 3.11(b), Section 5.10 and Section 5.08 with respect to notice and
information to be provided to the Depositor and Article 9 (except Section
9.07(a)(i) and (ii)).
Lower
Tier
REMIC: As specified in the Preliminary Statement.
Lower
Tier REMIC
Interest: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Lower
Tier REMIC Regular
Interest: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
LTR
A-R
Interest: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Majority
in
Interest: As to any Class of Certificates, the Holders of
Certificates of such Class evidencing, in the aggregate, at least 51% of
the
Percentage Interests evidenced by all Certificates of such Class.
Master
REMIC: As described in the Preliminary Statement.
Moody’s: Xxxxx’x
Investors Service, Inc., or any successor thereto. If Xxxxx’x is
designated as a Rating Agency in the Preliminary Statement, the address for
notices to Moody’s shall be Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc., 00 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx,
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: Residential Pass-Through Monitoring,
or
such other address as Moody’s may hereafter furnish to the
Depositor.
MR-A-R
Interest: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
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Non-Delay
Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Notional
Amount: With respect to the Interest Accrual Period for any
Distribution Date and:
(i) the
Class A-4 Certificates, an amount equal to the Class Certificate Balance
of the
Class A-3 Certificates immediately prior to such Distribution Date;
(ii) the
Class A-8 Certificates, an amount equal to the sum of (i) the product of
(a) the
Class Certificate Balance of the Class A-5 Certificates immediately prior
to
such Distribution Date and (b) a fraction, the numerator of which is 1.50
and
the denominator of which is 7.00, (ii) the product of (a) the Class Certificate
Balance of the Class A-6 Certificates immediately prior to such Distribution
Date and (b) a fraction, the numerator of which is 0.25 and the denominator
of
which is 7.00, and (iii) the product of (a) the Class Certificate Balance
of the
Class A-7 Certificates immediately prior to such Distribution Date and (b)
a
fraction, the numerator of which is 0.50 and the denominator of which is
7.00. See footnote (4) to the table in Annex A attached
hereto.
(iii) the
Class A-10 Certificates, an amount equal to the Class Certificate Balance
of the
Class A-9 Certificates immediately prior to such Distribution Date;
and
(iv) the
Class A-14 Certificates, an amount equal to the sum of (i) the product of
(a)
the Class Certificate Balance of the Class A-11 Certificates immediately
prior
to such Distribution Date and (b) a fraction, the numerator of which is 1.50
and
the denominator of which is 7.00, (ii) the product of (a) the Class Certificate
Balance of the Class A-12 Certificates immediately prior to such Distribution
Date and (b) a fraction, the numerator of which is 0.25 and the denominator
of
which is 7.00, and (iii) the product of (a) the Class Certificate Balance
of the
Class A-13 Certificates immediately prior to such Distribution Date and (b)
a
fraction, the numerator of which is 0.50 and the denominator of which is
7.00.
Notional
Amount
Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Officers’
Certificate: A certificate in the case of the Depositor,
signed by the Chairman of the Board, the Vice Chairman of the Board, the
President, a Managing Director, a Vice President (however denominated), an
Assistant Vice President, the Treasurer, the Secretary, or one of the Assistant
Treasurers or Assistant Secretaries of the Depositor.
Opinion
of
Counsel: A written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for
the Depositor, including, in-house counsel, reasonably acceptable to the
Trustee; provided, however,
that with
respect to the interpretation or application of the REMIC Provisions, such
counsel must (i) in fact be independent of the Depositor, (ii) not have any
direct financial interest in the Depositor or in any affiliate thereof, and
(iii) not be connected with the Depositor as an officer, employee, promoter,
underwriter, trustee, partner, director or person performing similar
functions.
Ownership
Interest: As to any Residual 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.
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Outstanding: With
respect to the Certificates as of any date of determination, all Certificates
theretofore executed and authenticated under this Agreement except:
(i) Certificates
theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation; and
(ii) Certificates
in exchange for which or in lieu of which other Certificates have been executed
and delivered by the Trustee pursuant to this Agreement.
Pass-Through
Rate: For any interest bearing Class of Certificates or
Component, the per annum rate set forth or calculated in the manner described
in
the Preliminary Statement.
Percentage
Interest: As to any Certificate, the percentage interest
evidenced thereby in distributions required to be made on the related Class,
such percentage interest being set forth on the face thereof or equal to
the
percentage obtained by dividing the Denomination of such Certificate by the
aggregate of the Denominations of all Certificates of the same
Class.
Performance
Certification: As defined in Section 9.05.
Permitted
Transferee: Any Person other than (i) the United States, any
State or political subdivision thereof, or any agency or instrumentality
of any
of the foregoing, (ii) a foreign government, International Organization or
any
agency or instrumentality of either of the foregoing, (iii) an organization
(except certain farmers’ cooperatives described in Section 521 of the Code)
which 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)(l) of the Code) with respect
to
any Residual Certificate, (iv) rural electric and telephone cooperatives
described in section 1381(a)(2)(C) of the Code, (v) an “electing
large partnership” as defined in Section 775 of the Code, (vi) 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 thereof 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 Trustee with a duly completed Internal Revenue Service
Form
W-8ECI or any applicable successor form, and (vii) any other Person so
designated by the Trustee based upon an Opinion of Counsel that the Transfer
of
an Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate to such Person may cause
any
REMIC hereunder to fail to qualify as a REMIC at any time that the Certificates
are Outstanding. The terms “United States,” “State” and
“International Organization” shall have the meanings set forth 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, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company,
association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or
government, or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
Physical
Certificate: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Plan: An
“employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA that is subject to
Title I of ERISA, a “plan” as defined in Section 4975 of the Code that is
subject to Section 4975 of the Code, or any Person investing on behalf of
or
with plan assets (as defined in 29 CFR §2510.3-101 or otherwise under ERISA) of
such an employee benefit plan or plan.
Planned
Balance: With respect to any group of Planned Principal
Classes or Components in the aggregate and any Distribution Date appearing
in
Schedule II hereto, the Aggregate Planned Balance for such group and
Distribution Date. With respect to any other Planned Principal Class
or Component and any Distribution Date appearing in Schedule II hereto, the
applicable amount appearing opposite such Distribution Date for such Class
or
Component.
Planned
Principal
Class: As specified in the Preliminary Statement.
Pre-Funding
Account:
Not applicable.
Prospectus: The
prospectus dated July 27, 2007 generally relating to mortgage pass-through
certificates to be sold by the Depositor.
Prospectus
Supplement: The prospectus supplement, dated December 17,
2007, to the Prospectus, relating to the Offered Certificates.
Purchase
Price: The fair market value of the Deposited Underlying
Certificates as determined based on any market quotes for identical Deposited
Underlying Certificates not deposited under this Agreement; but no less than
the
principal balance of the Deposited Underlying Certificates immediately prior
to
the Distribution Date of such repurchase plus unpaid interest thereon due
on or
prior to the Distribution Date of such repurchase (it being understood that
all
distributions made on the Deposited Underlying Certificates up to immediately
prior to the Distribution Date of such repurchase shall be property of the
Trust
Fund).
Rating
Agency: Each of the Rating Agencies specified in the
Preliminary Statement. If any such organization or a successor is no
longer in existence, “Rating Agency” shall be such nationally recognized
statistical rating organization, or other comparable Person, identified as
a
rating agency under the Underwriter’s Exemption, as is designated by the
Depositor, notice of which designation shall be given to the
Trustee. References herein to a given rating category of a Rating
Agency shall mean such rating category without giving effect to any
modifiers.
Record
Date: With respect to the first Distribution Date, the Closing
Date. With respect to each other Distribution Date, the last day of
the calendar month preceding the month in which such Distribution Date
occurs.
Reference
Bank: As defined in Section 3.07 hereof.
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Regular
Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Regular
Interest: A “regular interest” (as defined in Section
860G(a)(1) of the Code) in any REMIC described in the Preliminary
Statement.
Regulation
AB: Subpart 229.1100 – Asset Backed Securities (Regulation
AB), 17 C.F.R. §§229.1100-229.1123, as such may be amended from time to time,
and subject to such clarification and interpretation as have been provided
by
the Commission in the adopting release (Asset-Backed Securities, Securities
Act
Release No. 33-8518, 70 Fed. Reg. 1,506, 1,531 (Jan. 7, 2005)) or by the
staff
of the Commission, or as may be provided by the Commission or its staff from
time to time.
REMIC: A
“real estate mortgage investment conduit” within the meaning of section 860D of
the Code.
REMIC
Change of
Law: Any proposed, temporary or final regulation, revenue
ruling, revenue procedure or other official announcement or interpretation
relating to REMICs and the REMIC Provisions issued after the Closing
Date.
REMIC
Provisions: Provisions of the federal income tax law relating
to real estate mortgage investment conduits, which appear at sections 860A
through 860G of Subchapter M of Chapter 1 of the Code, and related provisions,
and regulations promulgated thereunder, as the foregoing may be in effect
from
time to time as well as provisions of applicable state laws.
Reportable
Event: Any event required to be reported on Form 8-K and, in
any event, the following:
(a) entry
into a definitive agreement related to the Trust Fund, the Certificates,
or
Underlying Deposited Certificates, or an amendment to a Transaction Document,
even if the Depositor is not a party to such agreement (e.g., a servicing
agreement with a servicer contemplated by Item 1108(a)(3) of Regulation
AB);
(b) termination
of a Transaction Document (other than by expiration of the agreement on its
stated termination date or as a result of all parties completing their
obligations under such agreement), even if the Depositor is not a party to
such
agreement; (e.g., a servicing agreement with a servicer contemplated by Item
1108(a)(3) of Regulation AB);
(c) with
respect to the Trustee only, if the Trustee becomes aware of any bankruptcy
or
receivership with respect to the Underlying Certificate Seller, the Depositor,
any enhancement or support provider contemplated by Items 1114(b) or 1115
of
Regulation AB, or any other material party contemplated by Item 1101(d)(1)
of
Regulation AB;
(d) with
respect to the Trustee and the Depositor, the occurrence of an early
amortization, performance trigger or other event, including an Event of Default
under this Agreement;
(e) the
resignation, removal, replacement, substitution of the Trustee;
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(f) [reserved];
and
(g) with
respect to the Trustee and the Depositor, a required distribution to Holders
of
the Certificates is not made as of the required Distribution Date under this
Agreement.
Reporting
Subcontractor: With respect to the Trustee, any Subcontractor
determined by such Person pursuant to Section 11.08(b) to be “participating in
the servicing function” within the meaning of Item 1122 of Regulation
AB. References to a Reporting Subcontractor shall refer only to the
Subcontractor of such Person and shall not refer to Subcontractors
generally.
Residual
Certificates: As described in the Preliminary
Statement.
Responsible
Officer: When used with respect to the Trustee, any Vice
President, any Assistant Vice President, the Secretary, any Assistant Secretary,
any Trust Officer or any other officer of the Trustee customarily performing
functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers
and
also to whom, with respect to a particular matter, such matter is referred
because of such officer’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular
subject.
Rule
3a-7: Rule 3a-7
of the Investment Company Act, as then in effect (or any successor
rule).
Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx
Certification: As defined in Section 7.05.
Securities
Account: As defined in Section 3.02 hereof.
Securities
Account
Property: The Securities Account, all amounts, investments and
other property held from time to time in the Securities Account, including
the
Deposited Underlying Certificates, and all proceeds of the
foregoing.
Securities
Intermediary: As defined in Section 3.02(b)
hereof.
Servicing
Criteria: The “servicing criteria” set forth in Item 1122(d)
of Regulation AB.
S&P: Standard
& Poor’s, a division of The XxXxxx-Xxxx Companies, Inc. If
S&P is designated as a Rating Agency in the Preliminary Statement, the
address for notices to S&P shall be Standard & Poor’s, 00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx,
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: Mortgage Surveillance Monitoring, or
such
other address as S&P may hereafter furnish to the Depositor.
Shift
Percentage: Not applicable.
SR-A-R
Interest: Not applicable.
Startup
Day: The Closing Date.
Subcontractor: Any
vendor, subcontractor or other Person that is not responsible for the overall
servicing (as “servicing” is commonly understood by participants in the
mortgage-backed securities market) of Underlying Mortgage Loans but performs
one
or more discrete functions
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identified
in Item 1122(d) of Regulation AB with respect to Underlying Mortgage Loans
under
the direction or authority of the Trustee.
Subsidiary
REMIC: Not applicable.
Subsidiary
REMIC
Interest: Not applicable.
Subsidiary
REMIC Regular
Interest: Not applicable.
Targeted
Balance: With respect to any group of Targeted Principal
Classes or Components in the aggregate and any Distribution Date appearing
in
Schedule II hereto, the Aggregate Targeted Balance for such group and
Distribution Date. With respect to any other Targeted Principal Class
or Component and any Distribution Date appearing in Schedule II hereto, the
applicable amount appearing opposite such Distribution Date for such Class
or
Component.
Targeted
Principal
Classes: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Tax
Matters
Person: The person designated as “tax matters person” in the
manner provided under Treasury regulation § 1.860F-4(d) and Treasury regulation
§ 301.6231(a)(7)1. Initially, the Tax Matters Person shall be the
Trustee.
Tax
Matters Person
Certificate: The Class A-R Certificate with a Denomination of
$0.01.
Transaction
Documents: This Agreement and any other document or agreement
entered into in connection with the Trust Fund, the Certificates or the
Underlying Deposited Certificates.
Transfer: Any
direct or indirect transfer or sale of any Ownership Interest in a Residual
Certificate.
Transfer
Affidavit: A certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit
F annexed hereto.
Transferor
Affidavit: A certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit
E hereto.
Trustee: The
Bank of New York and its successors and, if a successor trustee is appointed
hereunder, such successor.
Trust
Fund: The corpus of the trust created by this Agreement and
evidenced by the Certificates, consisting of: (A) the Deposited Underlying
Certificates, (B) all distributions thereon due to the holders of the Deposited
Underlying Certificates after November 26, 2007 in under the terms thereof,
(C)
the Distribution Account, the Securities Account and the Exchangeable
Certificates Distribution Account, (D) all investment property, deposit
accounts, accounts, general intangibles, money, instruments, documents and
other
property evidencing any and all of the foregoing, and (E) all proceeds of
any
and all of the foregoing. For the avoidance of doubt, the ES Trust,
the Master REMIC and the Lower Tier REMIC and the assets held or deemed held
thereby shall constitute a part of the Trust Fund.
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UCC: The
Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New York.
Underlying
Agreement: The Pooling and Servicing Agreement, dated as of
November 1, 2006, among CWALT, Inc., as depositor, Countrywide Home Loans,
Inc.,
as seller, Park Granada LLC, as a seller, Countrywide Home Loans Servicing
LP,
as master servicer, and The Bank of New York, as trustee, related to CWALT,
Inc.
Alternative Loan Trust 2005-39CB, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series
2006-39CB, as it may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from
time to
time in accordance with its terms.
Underlying
Certificate
Account: The “Certificate Account” as defined in the
Underlying Agreement.
Underlying
Certificate
Seller: Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., a corporation organized under the
laws of the State of Delaware, or its successors in interest.
Underlying
Distribution
Date: The “Distribution Date” as defined in the Underlying
Agreement.
Underlying
Event of
Default: “Event of Default” as defined in the Underlying
Agreement.
Underlying
Liquidated
Mortgage Loan: “Liquidated Mortgage Loan” as defined in the
Underlying Agreement.
Underlying
Master
Servicer: Countrywide Home Loans Servicing L.P.
Underlying
Debt Service
Reductions: “Debt Service Reductions” as defined in the Underlying
Agreement.
Underlying
Net Interest
Shortfalls: “Net Interest Shortfalls” as defined in the
Underlying Agreement.
Underlying
Net Prepayment
Interest Shortfalls: “Net Prepayment Interest
Shortfalls” as defined in the Underlying Agreement.
Underlying
Realized
Losses: “Realized Losses” as defined in the Underlying
Agreement.
Underlying
Relief Act
Reductions: Any “Relief Act Reductions” as defined in the
Underlying Agreement.
Underlying
Senior Credit
Support Depletion Date: The “Senior Credit Support Depletion
Date” as defined in the Underlying Agreement.
Underlying
Subsequent
Recoveries: Any “Subsequent Recoveries” as defined in the
Underlying Agreement.
Underlying
Trust: The “Trust Fund” as defined in the Underlying
Agreement.
Underlying
Trustee: The “Trustee” as defined in the Underlying
Agreement.
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Underwriter’s
Exemption: Prohibited Transaction Exemption 2007-5, 72 Fed.
Reg. 13130 (2007), as amended (or any successor thereto), or any substantially
similar administrative exemption granted by the U.S. Department of
Labor.
Voting
Rights: The portion of the voting rights of all of the
Certificates which is allocated to any Certificate. As of any date of
determination, (a) 1% of all Voting Rights shall be allocated to each Class
of
Senior Certificates that are Notional Amount Certificates, if any, and (b)
the
remaining Voting Rights (or 100% of the Voting Rights if there is no such
Class
of Senior Certificates) shall be allocated among Holders of the remaining
Classes of Senior Certificates in proportion to the Class Certificate Balances
of their respective Certificates on such date. Each Class of
Exchangeable Certificates shall be allocated a proportionate share of the
Voting
Rights allocated to the related Class of Depositable Certificates that have
been
surrendered as provided in Section 4.07(e). The Voting Rights
allocated to a Class of Certificates shall be allocated among the Certificates
of such Class based on their respective Percentage Interests.
Section
1.02 Certain Interpretive
Principles.
All
terms
defined in this Agreement shall have the defined meanings when used in any
certificate, agreement or other document delivered pursuant hereto unless
otherwise defined therein. For purposes of this Agreement and all
such certificates and other documents, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) accounting terms not otherwise defined in this Agreement, and accounting
terms partly defined in this Agreement to the extent not defined, shall have
the
respective meanings given to them under generally accepted accounting
principles; (b) the words “hereof,” “herein” and “hereunder” and words of
similar import refer to this Agreement (or the certificate, agreement or
other
document in which they are used) as a whole and not to any particular provision
of this Agreement (or such certificate, agreement or document); (c) references
to any Section, Schedule or Exhibit are references to Sections, Schedules
and
Exhibits in or to this Agreement, and references to any paragraph, subsection,
clause or other subdivision within any Section or definition refer to such
paragraph, subsection, clause or other subdivision of such Section or
definition; (d) the term “including” means “including without limitation”; (e)
references to any law or regulation refer to that law or regulation as amended
from time to time and include any successor law or regulation; (f) references
to
any agreement refer to that agreement as amended from time to time; and (g)
references to any Person include that Person’s permitted successors and
assigns.
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ARTICLE
II
CONVEYANCE
OF THE DEPOSITED UNDERLYING CERTIFICATES;
ORIGINAL
ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATES
Section
2.01 Conveyance of
the Deposited
Underlying Certificates. The Depositor, concurrently with the
execution and delivery hereof, does hereby transfer, convey, sell and assign
to
the Trustee, on behalf of the Holders of the Certificates, without recourse,
all
the right, title and interest of the Depositor in and to the Deposited
Underlying Certificates with appropriate endorsements and other documentation
sufficient under the Underlying Agreement to transfer each such Deposited
Underlying Certificate to the Trustee, including all distributions thereon
due
after November 26, 2007, and all proceeds of the foregoing. Each of
the Underlying Certificate Seller and the Depositor severally agrees to transfer
to the Trustee (by wire transfer of immediately available funds), any amounts
it
receives in respect of the Deposited Underlying Certificates due thereon
after
November 26, 2007 on the same day it receives such funds.
The
transfer of the Deposited Underlying Certificates and all other assets
constituting the Trust Fund is absolute and is intended by the parties hereto
as
a sale. The Underlying Certificate Seller hereby confirms that it has
caused the beneficial ownership interest in the Deposited Underlying
Certificates to be registered with a Depository Participant or an indirect
participant in the Depository in the name of the Securities Intermediary
for the
benefit of the Trustee on behalf of the Certificateholders.
The
Securities Intermediary hereby confirms to the Trustee that (i) the Deposited
Underlying Certificates have been confirmed by the Depository to have been
delivered to the Trustee (on behalf of the Certificateholders), subject to
no
other interests, and held with the Securities Intermediary, as a Depository
Participant, in book-entry form, and (ii) the Securities Intermediary is
holding
such Deposited Underlying Certificate for the account of the Trustee, on
behalf
of the Certificateholders. The Trustee hereby acknowledges the
receipt by it and the Securities Intermediary of the Deposited Underlying
Certificates and the other documents and instruments referenced above, in
good
faith and without actual notice of any adverse claim, and declares that it
holds
and will hold the Deposited Underlying Certificates and the other documents
and
instruments, and that it holds and will continuously hold all other assets
in
the Trust Fund, in each case, in the State of New York, in trust for the
exclusive use and benefit of all present and future
Certificateholders. The Trustee shall not permit the Deposited
Underlying Certificates or any other asset constituting the Trust Fund to
be
subjected to any lien, claim or encumbrance arising by, through or under
the
Trustee or any person claiming by, through or under the Trustee. The
Depositor agrees to provide to the Trustee all documents required for the
transfer to the Trustee of the Deposited Underlying Certificates.
It
is
intended that the conveyance of the Deposited Underlying Certificates by
the
Depositor to the Trustee as provided in this Section be, and be construed
as, a
sale of the Deposited Underlying Certificates by the Depositor to the Trustee
for the benefit of the Certificateholders. It is, further, not
intended that such conveyance be deemed a pledge of the Deposited Underlying
Certificates by the Depositor to the Trustee to secure a debt or
other
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obligation
of the Depositor. However, in the event that the Deposited Underlying
Certificates are held to be the property of the Depositor, or if for any
reason
this Agreement is held or deemed to create a security interest in the Deposited
Underlying Certificates, then it is intended that this Agreement shall also
be
deemed to be a security agreement within the meaning of Articles 8 and 9
of the
UCC and the corresponding articles of the Uniform Commercial Code of any
other
applicable jurisdiction; and the Depositor hereby grants to the Trustee for
the
benefit of the Certificateholders a security interest in all of the Depositor’s
right, title and interest, whether now owned or existing or hereafter acquired
or arising, in and to the Trust Fund. The Depositor and the Trustee,
at the Depositor’s direction and expense, shall, to the extent consistent with
this Agreement, take such actions as may be necessary to ensure that, if
this
Agreement were deemed to create a security interest in the Deposited Underlying
Certificates and other assets constituting the Trust Fund described above,
such
security interest would be deemed to be a perfected security interest of
first
priority under applicable law and will be maintained as such throughout the
term
of the Agreement.
Section
2.02 Acceptance by
Trustee. The Trustee hereby confirms that it has confirmation
from BNY, in its capacity as Securities Intermediary for the Trustee that
(i)
the Deposited Underlying Certificates in book-entry form have been confirmed
by
the Depository to have been delivered to the Trustee, subject to no other
interests, and held in the Securities Intermediary in book-entry form, as
a
participant in the Depository and (ii) the Securities Intermediary is holding
such Deposited Underlying Certificates in book-entry form for the account
of the
Trustee, as owner of the Deposited Underlying Certificates in its capacity
as
trustee for the Certificateholders. The Trustee declares that it
shall hold ownership interest in the Deposited Underlying Certificates in
trust
and shall hold all proceeds of any of the foregoing and all other rights,
titles
or interests of the Trustee in any asset included in the Trust Fund from
time to
time in trust, upon the terms herein set forth, for the use and benefit of
all
present and future Certificateholders. The Trustee agrees, for the
benefit of Certificateholders, to confirm that the class designation and
original principal balance with respect to the Deposited Underlying Certificates
conform to the information set forth on Schedule I on the Closing
Date.
Section
2.03 Representations
and
Warranties of the Underlying Certificate Seller. The
Underlying Certificate Seller hereby represents and warrants to the Depositor
and the Trustee
(a) With
respect to the Deposited Underlying Certificates as of the Closing Date as
follows:
(i) prior
to the transfer of the Deposited Underlying Certificates to the Depositor,
the
Underlying Certificate Seller was the sole owner of the Deposited Underlying
Certificates free and clear of any lien, pledge, charge or encumbrance of
any
kind;
(ii) the
Underlying Certificate Seller has not assigned any interest in the Deposited
Underlying Certificates or any distributions thereon, except as contemplated
herein;
(iii) the
crediting of the Deposited Underlying Certificates to the Securities Account
is
sufficient to effect the transfer of all right, title and interest in the
Deposited
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Underlying
Certificates to the Trustee pursuant to Section 2.01 hereof free and clean
of
any lien, pledge, charge or encumbrance of any kind;
(vi) the
Deposited Underlying Certificates constitute a “securities entitlement” within
the meaning of the UCC;
(v) the
Underlying Certificate Seller is not aware of any default or event of default
under, or breach of any terms of, the Underlying Agreement or the Deposited
Underlying Certificates; and
(vi) the
information set forth on Schedule I to this Agreement is true and correct
as of
the Closing Date; and
(vii) the
Deposited Underlying Certificates have been credited to the Securities
Account.
The
representations and warranties set forth in this Section 2.03(a) shall survive
the transfer and assignment of the Deposited Underlying Certificates by the
Depositor to the Trustee up to and including the Distribution Date in December
2007. Upon discovery by the Underlying Certificate Seller, the
Depositor or a Responsible Officer of the Trustee of a breach of any of the
foregoing representations and warranties which materially and adversely affects
the interests of the Certificateholders in the Deposited Underlying
Certificates, the Underlying Certificate Seller, the Depositor or the Trustee
shall give prompt written notice to the other parties and to the
Certificateholders. If such notice is given or received on or prior
to the Distribution Date in December 2007, the Underlying Certificate Seller
shall cure such breach in all material respects or, if such breach cannot
be
cured, the Underlying Certificate Seller shall repurchase the Deposited
Underlying Certificates from the Trustee on the Distribution Date immediately
following the date on which the Underlying Certificate Seller is so directed
by
Holders of a Majority in Interest of the related Class or Classes of Regular
Certificates. Any such repurchase of the Deposited Underlying
Certificates by the Underlying Certificate Seller shall be accomplished on
the
Distribution Date of repurchase, by the payment on the Business Day prior
to
such Distribution Date by the Underlying Certificate Seller to the Trustee
of an
amount equal to the Purchase Price. The payment of the Purchase Price
shall be considered a prepayment in full of the Deposited Underlying
Certificates and shall be delivered to the Trustee for deposit in the
Distribution Account in accordance with the provisions of Section 3.02
hereof. Upon such deposit into such Distribution Account, the
repurchased Deposited Underlying Certificates shall be released to the
Underlying Certificate Seller, and the Trustee and the Depositor shall execute
and deliver such instruments of transfer or assignment, in each case without
recourse, as shall be reasonably requested and provided by the Underlying
Certificate Seller to vest in the Underlying Certificate Seller, or its designee
or assignee, title to the Deposited Underlying Certificates repurchased pursuant
hereto. The obligation of the Underlying Certificate Seller to cure
such breach of representations and warranties or effect such repurchase of
the
Deposited Underlying Certificates shall constitute the sole remedy respecting
such breach available to Certificateholders or the Trustee on behalf of
Certificateholders.
(b) With
respect to the Underlying Certificate Seller:
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(i) The
Underlying Certificate Seller is a corporation organized, validly existing
and
in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware with full power
and
authority to execute, deliver and perform this Agreement.
(ii) This
Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Underlying
Certificate Seller and constitutes the legal, valid and binding agreement
of the
Underlying Certificate Seller, enforceable in accordance with its terms,
except
as enforcement hereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
moratorium or other similar laws now or hereafter in effect relating to or
affecting creditors’ rights generally or by general principles of equity,
regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in
equity or at law.
(iii) Neither
the execution nor the delivery of this Agreement nor the issuance, delivery
and
sale of the Certificates, nor the consummation of any other of the transactions
contemplated herein nor the fulfillment of the terms of this Agreement or
the
Certificates will result in the breach of any term or provision of the charter,
by-laws or resolutions of the Underlying Certificate Seller or conflict with,
result in a breach, violation or acceleration of or constitute a default
under,
the terms of any material indenture or other agreement or instrument to which
the Underlying Certificate Seller is a party or by which it is bound, or
any
statute, order or regulation applicable to the Underlying Certificate Seller
of
any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or governmental body having
jurisdiction over the Underlying Certificate Seller.
(iv) There
are no actions or proceedings against, or investigations of, the Underlying
Certificate Seller pending, or, to the knowledge of the Underlying Certificate
Seller, threatened, before any court, administrative agency or other tribunal
(A) asserting the invalidity of this Agreement or the Certificates, (B) seeking
to prevent the issuance of the Certificates or the consummation of any of
the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement, or (C) which might materially
and
adversely affect the validity or enforceability of this Agreement or the
Certificates.
It
is
understood and agreed that the representations and warranties set forth in
this
Section 2.03(b) shall survive delivery of the Trust Fund to the
Trustee. Upon discovery by the Underlying Certificate Seller, the
Depositor or a Responsible Officer of the Trustee of a breach of any of the
foregoing representations and warranties which breach materially and adversely
affects the interests of the Certificateholders, the party discovering such
breach shall give prompt written notice to the other parties and to the Rating
Agencies.
Section
2.04 Representations
and
Warranties of the Depositor. The Depositor hereby represents
and warrants to the Trustee as of the Closing Date as follows:
(i) The
Depositor is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing
under the laws of the State of Delaware with full power and authority to
execute, deliver and perform this Agreement.
(ii) This
Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Depositor
and
constitutes the legal, valid and binding agreement of the
Depositor,
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enforceable
in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement hereof may be limited
by
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws
now or
hereafter in effect relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally or by
general principles of equity, regardless of whether such enforceability is
considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.
(iii) Neither
the execution nor the delivery of this Agreement nor the issuance, delivery
and
sale of the Certificates, nor the consummation of any other of the transactions
contemplated herein nor the fulfillment of the terms of this Agreement or
the
Certificates will result in the breach of any term or provision of the charter
or by-laws of the Depositor or conflict with, result in a breach, violation
or
acceleration of or constitute a default under, the terms of any material
indenture or other agreement or instrument to which the Depositor is a party
or
by which it is bound, or any statute, order or regulation applicable to the
Depositor of any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or governmental
body having jurisdiction over the Depositor.
(iv) There
are no actions or proceedings against, or investigations of, the Depositor
pending, or, to the knowledge of the Depositor, threatened, before any court,
administrative agency or other tribunal (A) asserting the invalidity of this
Agreement or the Certificates, (B) seeking to prevent the issuance of the
Certificates or the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated
by this
Agreement, or (C) which might materially and adversely affect the validity
or
enforceability of this Agreement or the Certificates.
(v) This
Agreement creates a valid and continuing security interest in the Deposited
Underlying Certificates in favor of the Trustee, on behalf of the Trust Fund,
which security interest is prior to all other liens and is enforceable as
such
as against creditors and purchasers from the Depositor.
(vi) Immediately
before the assignment of the Deposited Underlying Certificates to the Trustee,
the Depositor had good and marketable title to such Deposited Underlying
Certificates free and clear of any lien, claim, encumbrance of any
Person. The Depositor has received all consents and approvals
required by the terms of the Deposited Underlying Certificates to the transfer
to the Trustee of its interest and rights in the Deposited Underlying
Certificates.
(vii) The
Distribution Account constitutes a “deposit account” (as defined in Section
9-102(a)(29) of the UCC). The Securities Account constitutes a “securities
account” (as defined in Section 8-501(a) of the UCC). The Deposited Underlying
Certificates have been credited to the Securities Account. The
Securities Intermediary has agreed to treat all assets credited to the
Securities Account as “financial assets” (as defined in Section 8-102(a)(9) of
the UCC).
(viii) This
Agreement is an agreement pursuant to which the Securities Intermediary or
the
Bank, as the case may be, has agreed to comply with all instructions or
directions originated by the Trustee relating to the Distribution Account
and
the Securities Account without further consent by the Depositor.
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(ix) Other
than the security interest granted to the Trustee pursuant to this Agreement,
the Depositor has not pledged, assigned, sold, granted a security interest
in,
or otherwise conveyed any of the Deposited Underlying
Certificates. The Depositor has not authorized the filing of and is
not aware of any financing statements against the Depositor that include
a
description of the collateral covering the Deposited Underlying
Certificates. The Depositor is not aware of any judgment or tax lien
filings against the Depositor.
(x) The
Depositor is not aware of any default or event of default under, or breach
of
any terms of, the Underlying Agreement or the Deposited Underlying
Certificates.
(xi) Neither
the Distribution Account nor the Securities Account is in the name of any
person
other than the Trustee. The Depositor has not consented to the
compliance by the Securities Intermediary of the Securities Account with
entitlement orders of any person other than the Trustee.
It
is
understood and agreed that the representations and warranties set forth in
this
Section 2.04 shall survive delivery of the Trust Fund to the
Trustee. Upon discovery by the Depositor or a Responsible Officer of
the Trustee of a breach of any of the foregoing representations and warranties
which breach materially and adversely affects the interests of the
Certificateholders, the party discovering such breach shall give prompt written
notice to the other party and to the Rating Agencies.
The
parties to this Agreement shall not waive any of the representations set
forth
in clauses (v) and (vii) through (xi) in this Section 2.04 without obtaining
a
confirmation of the then-current ratings of the Certificates.
Section
2.05 Issuance of
Certificates. The Trustee acknowledges the receipt by it of
the Deposited Underlying Certificates and concurrently with such receipt,
the
Trustee has duly executed, countersigned and delivered, to or upon the order
of
the Depositor, the Certificates in authorized denominations and registered
in
such names as the Depositor has directed in writing.
Section
2.06 REMIC
Matters. The Preliminary Statement sets forth the designations
and “latest possible maturity date” for federal income tax purposes of all
interests created hereby. The “Startup Day” for purposes of the REMIC
Provisions shall be the Closing Date. The “tax matters person” with
respect to each REMIC hereunder shall be the Trustee and the Trustee shall
hold
the Tax Matters Person Certificate. Each REMIC’s fiscal year shall be
the calendar year.
Section
2.07 Presentation for
Transfer. On the Closing Date, the Underlying Certificate
Seller, the Depositor and/or the Trustee (as appropriate) shall present the
documents described in Section 2.01 for registration of transfer of the
Deposited Underlying Certificates to the Trustee, pursuant to the requirements
under the Underlying Agreement.
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ARTICLE
III
ADMINISTRATION
OF THE TRUST FUND;
PAYMENTS
AND REPORTS TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
Section
3.01 Defaults by the
Underlying
Trust. In connection with its receipt of any distribution on
the Deposited Underlying Certificates on any Distribution Date, if (i) the
amount of any distribution varies from the amount due thereon pursuant to
the
terms of the Underlying Agreement, (ii) the Trustee shall not have received
a
distribution by the close of business on such Distribution Date, or (iii)
a
Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall gain actual knowledge of any default
under the Underlying Agreement, the Trustee shall promptly notify the Depositor,
the Underlying Certificate Seller and the Certificateholders, and shall,
subject
to the provisions of Article V hereof, pursue such remedies as may be available
to it as holder of such Deposited Underlying Certificates in accordance with
the
terms of the Underlying Agreement.
Section
3.02 Distribution Account
and
Securities Account. (a) The Trustee, for the benefit of the
Certificateholders, shall establish and maintain an account (the “Distribution
Account”) at the Bank, which shall be an Eligible Account, entitled “CWALT
2007-26R Distribution Account.” The Distribution Account shall be maintained as
a “deposit account” (as defined in Section 9-102(a)(29) of the UCC), bearing a
designation clearly indicating that the account and all funds deposited in
it
are held for the exclusive benefit of the Certificateholders. All
amounts on deposit in the Distribution Account shall remain
uninvested. The Bank of New York (“BNY”) hereby confirms the
following with respect to the Distribution Account: (A) the Distribution
Account
shall be established and maintained as a “deposit account” (as defined in
Section 9-102(a)(29) of the UCC), (B) BNY is an organization engaged in the
business of banking and is acting in such capacity (in such capacity, the
“Bank”) in maintaining the Distribution Account and (C) the Trustee is the
Bank’s sole “customer” (within the meaning of Section 9-104 of the UCC) with
respect to the Distribution Account (other than the Securities
Account). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary and for the
avoidance of doubt, if at any time the Bank shall receive any instructions
originated by the Trustee directing the disposition of funds in the Distribution
Account, the Bank shall comply with such instructions without further consent
by
the Depositor, the Underlying Certificate Seller or any other
Person. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, the Bank’s
“jurisdiction” (within the meaning of Section 9-304 of the UCC) is the State of
New York.
The
Distribution Account Property shall be Delivered to the Securities Intermediary
in accordance with the definition of “Delivery.”
(b) By
the date of this Agreement, the Trustee shall establish an account (the
“Securities Account”) which shall be established and maintained as a “securities
account” as defined in Section 8-501 of the UCC to which financial assets are or
may be credited, (A) entitled “CWALT 2007-26R Securities Account” BNY shall act
in the capacity of a “securities intermediary” as defined in Section
8-102(a)(14) of the UCC (in such capacity, the “Securities Intermediary”) with
respect to the Securities Account, and (B) the Securities Intermediary shall
treat the Trustee as the sole “entitlement holder” (within the meaning of
Section 8-102(a)(7) of
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the
UCC)
of the Securities Account and the sole Person entitled to exercise the rights
that comprise any financial asset credited to the Securities
Account.
The
Securities Account Property, including the Deposited Underlying Certificates,
shall be Delivered to the Securities Intermediary in accordance with the
definition of “Delivery.”
(c) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary and for the avoidance of doubt, if at any time the
Securities Intermediary shall receive any notifications or entitlement orders
from the Trustee directing it to transfer or redeem any financial asset or
other
property relating to the Securities Account, the Securities Intermediary
shall
comply with such notification or other entitlement order without further
consent
by the Depositor or any other Person. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary, the Securities Intermediary’s jurisdiction (as defined in Section
8-110(e) of the UCC) shall be the State of New York.
(d) The
Trustee shall upon receipt deposit in the Distribution Account the following
payments and collections in respect of the Deposited Underlying
Certificates:
(i) all
distributions due and received on the Deposited Underlying Certificates after
November 26, 2007; and
(ii) any
amount required to be deposited in the Distribution Account pursuant to Section
2.03(a) hereof in connection with the repurchase of a Deposited Underlying
Certificate by the Underlying Certificate Seller.
(e) Upon
a determination by the Trustee that the final distribution shall be made
in
respect of a Deposited Underlying Certificate, the Trustee shall take such
steps
as may be necessary in connection with the final payment thereon in accordance
with the terms and conditions of the Underlying Agreement. The
Trustee shall promptly deposit in the Distribution Account the final
distribution received upon presentment and surrender of the affected Deposited
Underlying Certificate.
(f) The
Depositor shall give notice to the Trustee, the Underlying Certificate Seller
and each Rating Agency of any proposed change of the location of the
Distribution Account or the Securities Account prior to any change
thereof.
(g) If
the Bank or the Securities Intermediary has or subsequently obtains by
agreement, operation of law, or otherwise a security interest in the
Distribution Account or the Securities Account, each of the Bank and the
Securities Intermediary hereby agrees that the security interest shall be
subordinate to the security interest of the Trustee for the benefit of the
Certificateholders.
Section
3.03 Permitted Withdrawals
From
the Distribution Account. The Trustee may from time to time
withdraw funds from the Distribution Account for the following
purposes:
(a) to
make payments to Certificateholders in the amounts and in the manner provided
in
Section 3.04;
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(b) to
reimburse the Depositor for expenses incurred by and reimbursable to the
Depositor with respect to each REMIC hereunder pursuant to Section
6.03;
(c) to
pay any taxes imposed upon each REMIC hereunder, as provided in Section 5.12;
and
(d) to
clear and terminate the Distribution Account upon the termination of the
Trust
Fund.
Section
3.04 Distributions.
(a) (1) On
each Distribution Date, the Trustee shall withdraw from the Distribution
Account
the Available Interest Funds from the Deposited Underlying Certificates for
such
Distribution Date and apply such funds to the distributions of interest,
in the
following order:
(i) concurrently
to each Class of Certificates, an amount equal to the related Class Optimal
Interest Distribution Amount, any shortfall being allocated pro rata among
such
Classes based on their respective Class Optimal Interest Distribution Amounts
for the Certificates before reductions for such shortfalls; and
(ii) [reserved].
(2) On
each Distribution Date, the Trustee shall withdraw from the Distribution
Account
the Available Principal Funds from the Deposited Underlying Certificates
for
such Distribution Date and apply such funds to distributions in respect of
principal in the following order:
(A) to
the Class A-R Certificates, until its Class Certificate Balance is reduced
to
zero; and
(B) concurrently,
to the Class A-1 and Class A-2 Certificates, pro rata, until their respective
Class Certificate Balances are reduced to zero.
If
any
Class of Depositable Certificates has been surrendered to the Trustee for
Exchangeable Certificates, the Trustee, as holder of such surrendered
Depositable Certificates, shall deposit any amounts distributable to such
Class
of Depositable Certificates in this Section 3.04(a) into the Exchangeable
Certificates Distribution Account and shall distribute such amounts to the
Holders of the related Class of Exchangeable Certificates pursuant to Section
4.07(b).
(b) [Reserved].
(c) [Reserved].
(d) On
each Distribution Date, the amount referred to in clause (i) of the definition
of Class Optimal Interest Distribution Amount for each Class of Certificates
for
such Distribution Date shall be reduced by such Class’s pro rata share (based on
interest then due and payable to such Class) of Allocated Underlying Net
Interest Shortfalls for such Distribution Date.
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(e) If
Subsequent Recoveries have been received with respect to an Underlying
Liquidated Mortgage Loan and are applied to increase the Class Certificate
Balance of the Deposited Underlying Certificates, that amount will be applied
pro rata to increase the Class Certificate Balance of each Class of Certificates
to which Realized Losses have been allocated, but in each case by not more
than
the amount of Underlying Realized Losses previously allocated to that Class
of
Certificates pursuant to Section 3.06. Holders of such Certificates
will not be entitled to any payment in respect of the Class Optimal Interest
Distribution Amount on the amount of such increases for any Interest Accrual
Period preceding the Distribution Date on which such increase
occurs. Any such increases shall be applied pro rata to the
Certificate Balance of each Certificate of such Class.
Section
3.05 [Reserved.]
Section
3.06 Allocation of Realized
Losses.
(a) On
or prior to the beginning of the second Business Day prior to each Distribution
Date, the Trustee shall determine the total amount of Allocated Underlying
Realized Losses for such Distribution Date. The Trustee shall make
such determination on the basis of amounts on deposit in the Underlying
Certificate Account (which Underlying Certificate Account it holds as Underlying
Trustee) or on the basis of the agreement referred to in the last sentence
of
Section 5.07.
(b) Allocated
Underlying Realized Losses with respect to any Distribution Date shall be
allocated sequentially, to the Class A-2 and Class A-1 Certificates, in that
order, until their respective Class Certificate Balances are reduced to
zero.
(c) Any
Allocated Underlying Realized Loss allocated to a Class of Certificates or
any
reduction in the Class Certificate Balance of a Class of Certificates pursuant
to Section 3.06(b) above shall be allocated among the Certificates of such
Class
in proportion to their respective Certificate Balances.
(d) Any
allocation of Allocated Underlying Realized Losses to a Certificate or any
reduction in the Certificate Balance of a Certificate, pursuant to Section
3.06(a) above shall be accomplished by reducing the Certificate Balance thereof
immediately following the distributions made on the related Distribution Date
in
accordance with the definition of “Certificate Balance.”
Section
3.07 Determination of
Pass-Through Rates for LIBOR Certificates.
(a) On
each Interest Determination Date so long as any Certificates that have a
Pass-Through Rate calculated by reference to LIBOR are outstanding, the Trustee
will determine LIBOR on the basis of the British Bankers’ Association (“BBA”)
“Interest Settlement Rate” for one-month deposits in U.S. dollars as quoted on
the Bloomberg Terminal as of each LIBOR Determination Date.
(b) If
on any Interest Determination Date, LIBOR cannot be determined as provided
in
paragraph (A) of this Section 4.08, the Trustee shall either (i) request each
Reference Bank to inform the Trustee of the quotation offered by its principal
London office for making one-month
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United
States dollar deposits in leading banks in the London interbank market, as
of
11:00 a.m. (London time) on such Interest Determination Date or (ii) in lieu
of
making any such request, rely on such Reference Bank quotations that appear
at
such time on the Reuters Screen LIBO Page (as defined in the International
Swap
Dealers Association Inc. Code of Standard Wording, Assumptions and Provisions
for Swaps, 1986 Edition), to the extent available. LIBOR for the next
Interest Accrual Period will be established by the Trustee on each interest
Determination Date as follows:
(i) If
on any Interest Determination Date two or more Reference Banks provide such
offered quotations, LIBOR for the next applicable Interest Accrual Period shall
be the arithmetic mean of such offered quotations (rounding such arithmetic
mean
upwards if necessary to the nearest whole multiple of 1/32%).
(ii) If
on any Interest Determination Date only one or none of the Reference Banks
provides such offered quotations, LIBOR for the next Interest Accrual Period
shall be whichever is the higher of (i) LIBOR as determined on the previous
Interest Determination Date or (ii) the Reserve Interest Rate. The
“Reserve Interest Rate” shall be the rate per annum which the Trustee determines
to be either (i) the arithmetic mean (rounded upwards if necessary to the
nearest whole multiple of 1/32%) of the one-month United States dollar lending
rates that New York City banks selected by the Trustee are quoting, on the
relevant Interest Determination Date, to the principal London offices of at
least two of the Reference Banks to which such quotations are, in the opinion
of
the Trustee, being so made, or (ii) in the event that the Trustee can determine
no such arithmetic mean, the lowest one-month United States dollar lending
rate
which New York City banks selected by the Trustee are quoting on such Interest
Determination Date to leading European banks.
(iii) If
on any Interest Determination Date the Trustee is required but is unable to
determine the Reserve Interest Rate in the manner provided in paragraph (b)
above, LIBOR for the related Classes of Certificates shall be LIBOR as
determined on the preceding applicable Interest Determination
Date. If on the initial LIBOR Determination Date the Trustee is
required but unable to determine LIBOR in the manner provided above, LIBOR
for
the next Interest Accrual Period will be the Initial LIBOR Rate.
Until
all
of the LIBOR Certificates are paid in full, the Trustee will at all times retain
at least four Reference Banks for the purpose of determining LIBOR with respect
to each Interest Determination Date. The Underlying Certificate
Seller initially shall designate the Reference Banks. Each “Reference
Bank” shall be a leading bank engaged in transactions in Eurodollar deposits in
the international Eurocurrency market, shall not control, be controlled by,
or
be under common control with, the Trustee and shall have an established place
of
business in London. If any such Reference Bank should be unwilling or
unable to act as such or if the Underlying Certificate Seller should terminate
its appointment as Reference Bank, the Trustee shall promptly appoint or cause
to be appointed another Reference Bank. The Trustee shall have no
liability or responsibility to any Person for (i) the selection of any Reference
Bank for purposes of determining LIBOR or (ii) any inability to retain at least
four Reference Banks which is caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable
control.
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(c) The
Pass-Through Rate for each Class of Certificates, which has a Pass-Through
Rate
that is calculated by reference to LIBOR, for each Interest Accrual Period
shall
be determined by the Trustee on each Interest Determination Date so long as
the
Class Certificate Balance of any such Class is greater than zero, on the basis
of LIBOR and the respective formulae appearing in footnotes corresponding to
the
LIBOR Certificates in the table relating to the Certificates in the Preliminary
Statement.
In
determining LIBOR, any Pass-Through Rate for the LIBOR Certificates, any
Interest Settlement Rate, or any Reserve Interest Rate, the Trustee may
conclusively rely and shall be protected in relying upon the offered quotations
(whether written, oral or on the Dow Xxxxx Markets) from the BBA designated
banks, the Reference Banks or the New York City banks as to LIBOR, the Interest
Settlement Rate or the Reserve Interest Rate, as appropriate, in effect from
time to time. The Trustee shall not have any liability or
responsibility to any Person for (i) the Trustee’s selection of New York City
banks for purposes of determining any Reserve Interest Rate or (ii) its
inability, following a good-faith reasonable effort, to obtain such quotations
from, the BBA designated banks, the Reference Banks or the New York City banks
or to determine such arithmetic mean, all as provided for in this Section
3.07.
The
establishment of LIBOR and each Pass-Through Rate for the LIBOR Certificates
by
the Trustee shall (in the absence of manifest error) be final, conclusive and
binding upon each Holder of a Certificate and the Trustee.
Section
3.08 Monthly Statements
to
Certificateholders. Concurrently with each distribution on a
Distribution Date, the Trustee will forward by electronic delivery to each
Rating Agency and make available to Certificateholders on the Trustee’s website
(xxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx) a statement generally setting forth the
information contained in Exhibit G hereto. Such statement shall also
indicate whether any exchanges of Exchangeable Certificates or Depositable
Certificates have occurred since the immediately preceding Distribution Date
and, if applicable, the Class designation, Class Certificate Balance or Notional
Amount and Pass-Through Rate of any Classes of Certificates that were received
by a Certificateholder as a result of such exchange as well as any Net
Prepayment Interest Shortfalls and Realized Losses allocated to such
Certificates as a result of such exchange.
In
addition, the Trustee will make available to Certificateholders on its website
copies of the statements received by the Trustee as the holder of the Deposited
Underlying Certificates on behalf of the Trust Fund.
Certificateholders
and other parties that are unable to use the Trustee’s website are entitled to
have paper copies of these statements mailed to them via first class mail by
contacting the Trustee and indicating such.
Within
a
reasonable period of time after the end of each calendar year, the Trustee
will
prepare and deliver to each person who at any time during the previous calendar
year was a Certificateholder of record a statement containing the information
required to satisfy any requirements of the Code, the REMIC Provisions and
regulations thereunder as from time to time are in force. For
purposes of this Section 3.08, the Trustee’s duties are limited to the extent
that adequate information is reasonably available to the Trustee as described
herein.
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Section
3.09 Reports of the Trustee;
Distribution Account. Upon written request of a
Certificateholder or Certificate Owner and at the expense of such
Certificateholder or Certificate Owner, the Trustee shall make available to
Certificateholders or Certificate Owners within 15 days after the date of
receipt of such request a statement setting forth the status of the Distribution
Account as of the close of business on the last day of the calendar month
immediately preceding such request, and showing, for the period covered by
such
statement, the aggregate of deposits into and withdrawals from the Distribution
Account.
Section
3.10 Access to Certain
Documentation and Information. The Trustee shall provide the
related Certificateholders or Certificate Owners with access to a copy of each
report, if any, received by it as holder of the Deposited Underlying
Certificates under the Underlying Agreement. The Trustee shall also
provide the Depositor and the Underlying Certificate Seller with access to
any
such report and to all written reports, documents and records required to be
maintained by the Trustee in respect of its duties hereunder. Such
access shall be afforded without charge but only upon reasonable request
evidenced by prior written notice received by the Trustee two Business Days
prior to the date of such proposed access and during normal business hours
at
offices designated by the Trustee.
Section
3.11 Annual Statement
as to
Compliance.
The
Trustee shall deliver to the Depositor on or before March 15 of each year,
commencing with its 2008 fiscal year, an Officer’s Certificate stating, as to
the signer thereof, that (i) a review of the activities of the Trustee during
the preceding calendar year (or applicable portion thereof) and of the
performance of the Trustee under this Agreement has been made under such
officer’s supervision and (ii) to the best of such officer’s knowledge, based on
such review, the Trustee has fulfilled all its obligations under this Agreement
in all material respects throughout such year (or applicable portion thereof),
or, if there has been a failure to fulfill any such obligation in any material
respect, specifying each such failure known to such officer and the nature
and
status thereof.
The
Trustee shall cause each Subcontractor, if any, to deliver to the Depositor
and
the Trustee on or before March 15 of each year, commencing with its 2008 fiscal
year, an Officer’s Certificate stating, as to the signer thereof, that (i) a
review of the activities of such Subcontractor during the preceding calendar
year (or applicable portion thereof) and of the performance of the Subcontractor
under the applicable agreement, has been made under such officer’s supervision
and (ii) to the best of such officer’s knowledge, based on such review, such
Subcontractor has fulfilled all its obligations under the applicable agreement,
in all material respects throughout such year (or applicable portion thereof),
or, if there has been a failure to fulfill any such obligation in any material
respect, specifying each such failure known to such officer and the nature
and
status thereof.
The
Trustee shall forward a copy of each such statement to each Rating
Agency.
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ARTICLE
IV
THE
CERTIFICATES
Section
4.01 The
Certificates.
The
Certificates shall be substantially in the forms attached hereto as
exhibits. The Certificates shall be issuable in registered form, in
the minimum denominations, integral multiples in excess thereof (except that
one
Certificate in each Class may be issued in a different amount which must be
in
excess of the applicable minimum denomination) and aggregate denominations
per
Class set forth in the Preliminary Statement.
Subject
to Section 7.01 hereof respecting the final distribution on the Certificates,
on
each Distribution Date the Trustee shall make distributions to each
Certificateholder of record on the preceding Record Date either (x) by wire
transfer in immediately available funds to the account of such holder at a
bank
or other entity having appropriate facilities therefor, if (i) such Holder
has
so notified the Trustee at least five Business Days prior to the related Record
Date and (ii) such Holder shall hold (A) a Notional Amount Certificate, (B)
100%
of the Class Certificate Balance of any Class of Certificates or
(C) Certificates of any Class with aggregate principal Denominations of not
less than $1,000,000 or (y) by check mailed by first class mail to such
Certificateholder at the address of such holder appearing in the Certificate
Register.
The
Certificates shall be executed by manual or facsimile signature on behalf of
the
Trust by an authorized officer of the Trustee. Certificates bearing
the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were, at the time when
such signatures were affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of the Trustee shall
bind the Trustee, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have
ceased to be so authorized prior to the countersignature and delivery of such
Certificates or did not hold such offices at the date of such
Certificate. No Certificate shall be entitled to any benefit under
this Agreement, or be valid for any purpose, unless countersigned by the Trustee
by manual signature, and such countersignature upon any Certificate shall be
conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Certificate has been
duly
executed and delivered hereunder. All Certificates shall be dated the
date of their countersignature. On the Closing Date, the Trustee
shall countersign the Certificates to be issued at the direction of the
Depositor, or any affiliate thereof.
The
Depositor shall provide, or cause to be provided, to the Trustee on a continuous
basis, an adequate inventory of Certificates to facilitate
transfers.
Section
4.02 Certificate Register;
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates.
(a) The
Trustee shall maintain, or cause to be maintained in accordance with the
provisions of Section 4.06 hereof, a Certificate Register for the Trust Fund
in
which, subject to the provisions of subsections (b) and (c) below and to such
reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Trustee shall provide for the
registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates
as
herein provided. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any
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Certificate,
the Trustee shall execute and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee
or transferees, one or more new Certificates of the same Class and aggregate
Percentage Interest.
At
the
option of a Certificateholder, Certificates may be exchanged for other
Certificates of the same Class in authorized denominations and evidencing the
same aggregate Percentage Interest upon surrender of the Certificates to be
exchanged at the office or agency of the Trustee. Whenever any
Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Trustee shall execute,
authenticate, and deliver the Certificates which the Certificateholder making
the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Certificate presented or
surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by
a
written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed
by the holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.
No
service charge to the Certificateholders shall be made for any registration
of
transfer or exchange of Certificates, but payment of a sum sufficient to cover
any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any
transfer or exchange of Certificates may be required.
All
Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be
cancelled and subsequently destroyed by the Trustee in accordance with the
Trustee’s customary procedures.
(b) [Reserved].
(c) No
transfer of an ERISA-Restricted Certificate shall be made unless the Trustee
shall have received either (i) a representation from the transferee of such
Certificate acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee
(in the event such Certificate is a Residual Certificate such requirement is
satisfied only by the Trustee’s receipt of a Representation Letter from the
Transferee substantially in the form of Exhibit F to the effect that (x) such
transferee is not a Plan or (y) in the case of a Certificate that is an
ERISA-Restricted Certificate and that has been the subject of an
ERISA-Qualifying Underwriting, a representation that the transferee is an
insurance company which is purchasing such Certificate with funds contained
in
an “insurance company general account” (as such term is defined in Section V(e)
of Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 95-60 (“PTCE 95-60”)) and that the
purchase and holding of such Certificate satisfy the requirements for exemptive
relief under Sections I and III of PTCE 95-60 or (ii) in the case of any
ERISA-Restricted Certificate presented for registration in the name of a Plan,
an Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to the Trustee, which Opinion of Counsel
shall not be an expense of either the Trustee or the Trust Fund, addressed
to
the Trustee to the effect that the purchase and holding of such ERISA-Restricted
Certificate will not result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section
406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and will not subject the Trustee to
any
obligation in addition to those expressly undertaken in this Agreement or to
any
liability. For purposes of the preceding sentence, with respect to an
ERISA-Restricted Certificate that is not a Residual Certificate, in the event
the representation letter or opinion of counsel referred to in the preceding
sentence is not so furnished, none of the representations in clause (i), as
appropriate, shall be deemed to have been made to the Trustee by the
transferee’s (including an initial acquiror’s) acceptance of the
ERISA-Restricted Certificates. Notwithstanding anything else to the
contrary herein, any purported transfer of an ERISA-Restricted Certificate
to or
on behalf of a Plan without the delivery to the Trustee of an Opinion of Counsel
satisfactory to the Trustee as described above shall be void and of no
effect.
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To
the
extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA),
the Trustee shall be under no liability to any Person for any registration
of or
transfer of any ERISA-Restricted Certificate that is in fact not permitted
by
this Section 4.02(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to
the
Holder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under
the
provisions of this Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the
Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d) Each
Person who has or who acquires any Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate
shall be deemed by the acceptance or acquisition of such Ownership Interest
to
have agreed to be bound by the following provisions, and the rights of each
Person acquiring any Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate are expressly
subject to the following provisions:
(i) Each
Person holding or acquiring any Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate
shall be a Permitted Transferee and shall promptly notify the Trustee of any
change or impending change in its status as a Permitted Transferee.
(ii) Except
in connection with (i) the registration of the Tax Matters Person Certificate
in
the name of the Trustee or (ii) any registration in the name of, or transfer
of
a Residual Certificate to, an affiliate of the Depositor or the
Underlying Certificate Seller (either directly or through a nominee) in
connection with the initial issuance of the Certificates, no Ownership Interest
in a Residual Certificate may be registered on the Closing Date or thereafter
transferred, and the Trustee shall not register the Transfer of any Residual
Certificate unless the Trustee shall have been furnished with an affidavit
(a
“Transfer Affidavit”) of the initial owner or the proposed transferee in the
form attached hereto as Exhibit F.
(iii)
Each Person holding or acquiring any Ownership Interest in a Residual
Certificate shall agree (A) to obtain a Transfer Affidavit from any other Person
to whom such Person attempts to Transfer its Ownership Interest in a Residual
Certificate, (B) to obtain a Transfer Affidavit from any Person for whom such
Person is acting as nominee, trustee or agent in connection with any Transfer
of
a Residual Certificate and (C) not to Transfer its Ownership Interest in a
Residual Certificate or to cause the Transfer of an Ownership Interest in a
Residual Certificate to any other Person if it has actual knowledge that such
Person is not a Permitted Transferee and to provide to the Trustee a certificate
substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit E stating that it has
no
knowledge that such Person is not a Permitted Transferee.
(iv) Any
attempted or purported Transfer of any Ownership Interest in a Residual
Certificate in violation of the provisions of this Section 4.02(d) shall be
absolutely null and void and shall vest no rights in the purported
Transferee. If any purported transferee shall become a Holder of a
Residual Certificate in violation of the provisions of this Section 4.02(d),
then the last preceding Permitted Transferee shall be restored to all rights
as
Holder thereof retroactive to the date of registration of Transfer of such
Residual Certificate. The 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 Section 4.02(c) and this Section 4.02(d) or for making
any
payments due on such Certificate to the Holder thereof or taking any other
action with respect to such Holder under the
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provisions
of this Agreement so long as the Transfer was registered after receipt of the
related Transfer Affidavit and Transferor Certificate. The 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 such Residual Certificate at and after either
such time. Any such payments so recovered by the Trustee shall be
paid and delivered by the Trustee to the last preceding Permitted Transferee
of
such Certificate.
(v) The
Depositor shall use its best efforts to make available, upon receipt of written
request from the 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.
The
restrictions on Transfers of a Residual Certificate set forth in this Section
4.02(d) 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 Trustee of an Opinion of Counsel, which Opinion of Counsel
shall
not be an expense of the Trust Fund, the Trustee, the Underlying Certificate
Seller or the Depositor, to the effect that the elimination of such restrictions
will not cause each REMIC hereunder 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 Fund, a Certificateholder or another Person. Each Person
holding or acquiring any Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate hereby
consents to any amendment of this Agreement which, based on an Opinion of
Counsel furnished to the Trustee, is reasonably necessary (a) 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 and (b) to provide for a means to compel the Transfer of a Residual
Certificate which is held by a Person that is not a Permitted Transferee to
a
Holder that is a Permitted Transferee.
(e) The
preparation and delivery of all certificates and opinions referred to above
in
this Section 4.02(e) in connection with transfer shall be at the expense of
the
parties to such transfers.
(f) Except
as provided below, the Book-Entry Certificates shall at all times remain
registered in the name of the Depository or its nominee and at all times: (i)
registration of the Certificates may not be transferred by the Trustee except
to
another Depository; (ii) the Depository shall maintain book-entry records with
respect to the Certificate Owners and with respect to ownership and transfers
of
such Book-Entry Certificates; (iii) ownership and transfers of registration
of
the Book-Entry Certificates on the books of the Depository shall be governed
by
applicable rules established by the Depository; (iv) the Depository may collect
its usual and customary fees, charges and expenses from its Depository
Participants; (v) the Trustee shall deal with the Depository, Depository
Participants and indirect participating firms as representatives of the
Certificate Owners of the Book-Entry Certificates for purposes of exercising
the
rights of holders under this Agreement, and requests and directions for and
votes of such representatives shall not be deemed to be inconsistent if they
are
made with respect to different Certificate Owners; and (vi) the Trustee may
rely
and shall be fully protected in relying upon information furnished by the
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Depository
with respect to its Depository Participants and furnished by the Depository
Participants with respect to indirect participating firms and persons shown
on
the books of such indirect participating firms as direct or indirect Certificate
Owners.
All
transfers by Certificate Owners of Book-Entry Certificates shall be made in
accordance with the procedures established by the Depository Participant or
brokerage firm representing such Certificate Owner. Each Depository
Participant shall only transfer Book-Entry Certificates of Certificate Owners
it
represents or of brokerage firms for which it acts as agent in accordance with
the Depository’s normal procedures.
If
(x)
(i) the Depository or the Depositor advises the Trustee in writing that the
Depository is no longer willing or able to properly discharge its
responsibilities as Depository, and (ii) the Trustee or the Depositor is unable
to locate a qualified successor or (y) after the occurrence of an Underlying
Event of Default, the Certificate Owners representing at least 51% of the
Certificate Balance of the Book-Entry Certificates together advise the Trustee
and the Depository through the Depository Participants in writing that
continuation of the book-entry system through the Depository is no longer in
the
best interests of the Certificate Owners, the Trustee shall notify all
Certificate Owners, through the Depository, of the occurrence of any such event
and of the availability of definitive, fully-registered Certificates (the
“Definitive Certificates”) to Certificate Owners requesting the
same. Upon surrender to the Trustee of the related Class of
Certificates by the Depository, accompanied by the instructions from the
Depository for registration, the Trustee shall issue the Definitive
Certificates. Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall be liable
for any delay in delivery of such instruction and each may conclusively rely
on,
and shall be protected in relying on, such instructions. The
Depositor shall provide the Trustee with an adequate inventory of certificates
to facilitate the issuance and transfer of Definitive
Certificates. Upon the issuance of Definitive Certificates all
references herein to obligations imposed upon or to be performed by the
Depository shall be deemed to be imposed upon and performed by the Trustee,
to
the extent applicable with respect to such Definitive Certificates and the
Trustee shall recognize the Holders of the Definitive Certificates as
Certificateholders hereunder; provided that the Trustee shall not by virtue
of
its assumption of such obligations become liable to any party for any act or
failure to act of the Depository.
Section
4.03 Mutilated, Destroyed,
Lost
or Stolen Certificates.
If
(a)
any mutilated Certificate is surrendered to the Trustee, or the Trustee receives
evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any
Certificate and (b) there is delivered to the Depositor and the Trustee such
security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless,
then, in the absence of notice to the Trustee that such Certificate has been
acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Trustee shall execute, countersign and
deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost
or
stolen Certificate, a new Certificate of like Class, tenor and Percentage
Interest. In connection with the issuance of any new Certificate
under this Section 4.03, the Trustee may require the payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation
thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee)
connected therewith. Any replacement Certificate issued pursuant to
this Section 4.03 shall constitute complete and indefeasible evidence of
ownership, as if originally issued, whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed
Certificate shall be found at any time.
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Section
4.04 Persons Deemed
Owners.
The
Depositor, the Trustee and any agent of the Depositor or the Trustee may treat
the Person in whose name any Certificate is registered as the owner of such
Certificate for the purpose of receiving distributions as provided in this
Agreement and for all other purposes whatsoever, and neither the Depositor,
the
Trustee nor any agent of the Depositor or the Trustee shall be affected by
any
notice to the contrary.
Section
4.05 Access to List of
Certificateholders’ Names and Addresses.
If
three
or more Certificateholders and/or Certificate Owners (a) request such
information in writing from the Trustee, (b) state that such Certificateholders
and/or Certificate Owners desire to communicate with other Certificateholders
and/or Certificate Owners with respect to their rights under this Agreement
or
under the Certificates, and (c) provide a copy of the communication which such
Certificateholders and/or Certificate Owners propose to transmit, or if the
Depositor shall request such information in writing from the Trustee, then
the
Trustee shall, within ten Business Days after the receipt of such request,
provide the Depositor or such Certificateholders and/or Certificate Owners
at
such recipients’ expense the most recent list of the Certificateholders of such
Trust Fund held by the Trustee, if any. The Depositor and every
Certificateholder and/or Certificate Owner, by receiving and holding a
Certificate or beneficial interest therein, agree that the Trustee shall not
be
held accountable by reason of the disclosure of any such information as to
the
list of the Certificateholders hereunder, regardless of the source from which
such information was derived.
Section
4.06 Maintenance of Office
or
Agency. The Trustee will maintain or cause to be maintained at
its expense an office or offices or agency or agencies in New York City where
Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange. The Trustee initially designates its Corporate Trust Office
for such purposes. The Trustee will give prompt written notice to the
Certificateholders of any change in such location of any such office or
agency.
Section
4.07 Depositable and
Exchangeable
Certificates.
(a) On
the Closing Date, there is hereby established a separate trust (the “ES Trust”),
which shall be a Grantor Trust for federal income tax purposes. The
ES Trust shall be maintained by the Trustee in its name, for the benefit of
the
Holders of the Certificates. The assets of the ES Trust shall consist
of the LTR-A-R Interest and the uncertificated Master REMIC Interests, which
have been placed in the ES Trust through the efforts of the
Underwriter. The LTR-A-R Interest and the uncertificated Master REMIC
Interests in the ES Trust shall be held by the Trustee. On the
Closing Date, the ES Trust shall issue the several Classes of Certificates.
Each
Class of Exchangeable Certificates shall be issued on the Closing Date with
a
Class Certificate Balance of zero. Upon the sale of the Certificates
on the Closing Date, the Exchangeable Certificates shall be placed with the
Trustee through the efforts of the Underwriter to be held to facilitate the
exchange of Depositable and Exchangeable Certificates on and after the Closing
Date. Among the Depositable and Exchangeable Certificates, the
beneficial interest of the uncertificated Master REMIC Interests shall be
represented by the related Depositable Certificates until such Depositable
Certificates have been exchanged for Exchangeable
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Certificates,
at which time, such Exchangeable Certificates shall represent those
uncertificated Master REMIC Interests.
The
Trustee, as trustee of the ES Trust, shall establish and maintain, on behalf
of
the Holders of the Exchangeable Certificates, the Exchangeable Certificates
Distribution Account. All funds on deposit in the Exchangeable
Certificates Distribution Account shall be held separate and apart from, and
shall not be commingled with, any other moneys, including without limitation,
other moneys held by the Trustee pursuant to this Agreement.
On
each
Distribution Date, the Trustee, as holder of any surrendered Depositable
Certificates, shall deposit in the Exchangeable Certificates Distribution
Account any amounts distributable to the surrendered Depositable Certificates
pursuant to Section 3.04. For the avoidance of doubt, if on any
Distribution Date no Classes of Depositable Certificates have been surrendered
or if all Classes of Exchangeable Certificates have been exchanged for
Depositable Certificates according to Section 4.07(e), then no amounts will
be
deposited in the Exchangeable Certificates Deposit Account on such Distribution
Date.
On
each
Distribution Date, the Trustee shall make withdrawals from the Exchangeable
Certificates Distribution Account to make distributions to the Classes of
Exchangeable Certificates then entitled to distributions pursuant to Section
4.07(b).
Funds
in
the Exchangeable Certificates Distribution Account shall remain
uninvested.
(b) On
each Distribution Date, the Trustee shall withdraw funds on deposit in the
Exchangeable Certificates Distribution Account on deposit therein from
distributions to the surrendered Depositable Certificates for such Distribution
Date and distribute such amount to the Holders of each related Class of
Exchangeable Certificates. Amounts related to interest distributed to
the surrendered Depositable Certificates shall be distributed as interest to
the
related Class or Classes of Exchangeable Certificates pursuant to Section
3.04(a)(2). All distributions of principal to the Exchangeable
Certificates shall be made pro rata among the Classes of Exchangeable
Certificates within each Combination Group unless specifically provided for
otherwise in Schedule III. All distributions that are made with
respect to a particular Class of Exchangeable Certificates shall be made pro
rata among all Certificates of such Class in proportion to their respective
Class Certificate Balances or Notional Amounts.
In
addition, the Trustee may from time to time make withdrawals from the
Exchangeable Certificates Distribution Account for the following
purposes:
(i) to
withdraw any amount deposited in the Exchangeable Certificates Distribution
Account and not required to be deposited therein; and
(ii) to
clear and terminate the Exchangeable Certificates Distribution Account upon
the
termination of this Agreement.
(c) On
each Distribution Date on which a Class of Exchangeable Certificates shall
be
entitled to receive distributions pursuant to Section 4.07(b), such Class shall
be allocated a proportionate share of the Underlying Net Prepayment Interest
Shortfalls, the interest portion of any Underlying Debt Service Reductions
and
Underlying Relief Act Reductions allocable to the Classes of Depositable
Certificates in the related Combination Group.
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(d) On
each Distribution Date on which a Class of Exchangeable Certificates shall
be
entitled to receive distributions pursuant to Section 4.07(b), such Class shall
be allocated a proportionate share of the Realized Losses allocable to the
Classes of Depositable Certificates in the related Combination
Group.
(e) Upon
the presentation and surrender of the Depositable Certificates, the Holder
thereof transfers, assigns, sets over and otherwise conveys to the Trustee
of
the ES Trust, all of such Holder’s right, title and interest in and to such
Depositable Certificates, including all payments of interest thereon received
after the month of the exchange. The Trustee on behalf of the ES
Trust shall furnish written acknowledgement to the Holder of such surrendered
Certificate of the transfer and assignment to it of such Depositable
Certificates.
At
the
request of the Holder of a Class or Classes of Depositable Certificates, and
upon the surrender of such Depositable Certificates, the Trustee shall deliver
such Exchangeable Certificates as set forth in such Combination Group in the
respective Denominations determined based on the proportion that the initial
Class Certificate Balance or initial Notional Amounts of such Exchangeable
Certificates bear to the initial Class Certificate Balances of the Depositable
Certificates, as set forth in Schedule III, which shall represent in the
aggregate, the entire beneficial ownership of the Master REMIC Interests related
to such surrendered Certificates. In addition, at the request of the
Holder of a Class or Classes of Exchangeable Certificates, and upon the
surrender of such Exchangeable Certificates, the Trustee shall exchange such
Exchangeable Certificates for another Class or Classes of Exchangeable
Certificates or the related surrendered Depositable Certificates, as set forth
in Schedule III. There shall be no limitation on the number of
exchanges authorized pursuant to this Section 4.07.
Holders
may exchange their Certificates according to this Section 4.07(e) by (i)
providing notice to the Trustee no later than three (3) Business Days prior
to
the date on which the Holder wishes to make such exchange (the “Exchange Date”),
which Exchange Date is subject to the Trustee’s approval and shall not be the
first or last Business Day of the month, (ii) remitting the Exchange Fee, as
determined in the next paragraph, to the Trustee and (iii) remitting the
beneficial interest in the Depositable Certificates or the Exchangeable
Certificates, as applicable, to the Trustee. Any such notice to the
Trustee (A) may be provided to the Trustee by email at xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
or
by telephone at (000) 000-0000, (B) must include (i) the Certificateholder’s
letterhead, (ii) a medallion stamp guarantee or be signed by an authorized
signatory and be presented with an incumbency certificate and (iii) set forth
the following information: (a) the CUSIP number of both the Certificates to
be
exchanged and the Certificates to be received, (b) the outstanding Class
Certificate Balance or Notional Amount and the initial Class Certificate Balance
or initial Notional Amount of the Certificates to be exchanged, (c) the
Certificateholder’s DTC participant number and (d) the proposed Exchange Date,
and (C) is irrevocable beginning on the second Business Day prior to the
Exchange Date. Such exchange will be completed by the Trustee upon
the receipt by the Trustee of the Exchange Fee and the beneficial interest
in
the Depositable Certificates or the Exchangeable Certificates, as
applicable.
The
preparation of all Certificates referred to in this Section 4.07(e) in
connection with an exchange shall be at the expense of the parties to such
exchanges. For each exchange, the Certificateholder must pay the
Trustee a fee (the “Exchange Fee”) equal to 1/32 of 1% of the current Class
Certificate Balance of the Certificates to be Exchanged but in no event shall
the fee be less than $2,000 or greater than $25,000.
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ARTICLE
V
CONCERNING
THE TRUSTEE
Section
5.01 Duties of
Trustee.
The
Trustee shall undertake to perform such duties and only such duties as are
specifically set forth in this Agreement.
The
Trustee, upon receipt of all resolutions, certificates, statements, opinions,
reports, documents, orders or other instruments furnished to the Trustee that
are specifically required to be furnished pursuant to any provision of this
Agreement shall examine them to determine whether they are in the form required
by this Agreement; provided, however,
that the
Trustee shall not be responsible for the accuracy or content of any such
resolution, certificate, statement, opinion, report, document, order or other
instrument.
No
provision of this Agreement shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from
liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or
its
own willful misconduct; provided, however,
that:
(i) the
duties and obligations of the Trustee shall be determined solely by the express
provisions of this Agreement, the Trustee shall not be liable except for the
performance of such duties and obligations as are specifically set forth in
this
Agreement, no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Agreement
against the Trustee and the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth
of
the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon
any
certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the
requirements of this Agreement which it believed in good faith to be genuine
and
to have been duly executed by the proper authorities respecting any matters
arising hereunder;
(ii) the
Trustee shall not be liable for an error of judgment made in good faith by
a
Responsible Officer or Responsible Officers of the Trustee, unless it shall
be
finally proven that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent
facts; and
(iii) the
Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken, suffered or
omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of
Holders of Certificates evidencing not less than 25% of the Voting Rights of
Certificates relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding
for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power
conferred upon the Trustee under this Agreement.
Section
5.02 Certain Matters
Affecting
the Trustee. Except as otherwise provided in Section
5.01:
(i) the
Trustee may request and rely upon and shall be protected in acting or refraining
from acting upon any resolution, Officers’ Certificate, certificate of auditors
or any other certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice,
request, consent, order, appraisal, bond or other paper or document believed
by
it to be genuine and to have been signed or
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presented
by the proper party or parties and the Trustee shall have no responsibility
to
ascertain or confirm the genuineness of any signature of any such party or
parties;
(ii) the
Trustee may consult with counsel, financial advisers or accountants and the
advice of any such counsel, financial advisers or accountants and any Opinion
of
Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect
of
any action taken or suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in
accordance with such Opinion of Counsel;
(iii) the
Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it
in
good faith and believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion or
rights or powers conferred upon it by this Agreement;
(iv) the
Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters
stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report,
notice, request, consent, order, approval, bond or other paper or document,
unless requested in writing so to do by Holders of Certificates evidencing
not
less than 25% of the Voting Rights allocated to each Class of
Certificates;
(v) the
Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties
hereunder either directly or by or through agents, accountants or
attorneys;
(vi) the
Trustee shall not be required to risk or expend its own funds or otherwise
incur
any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the
exercise of any of its rights or powers hereunder if it shall have reasonable
grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against
such risk or liability is not assured to it;
(vii) the
Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the trusts, rights
or
powers vested in it by this Agreement or to institute, conduct or defend any
litigation hereunder or in relation hereto at the request, order or direction
of
any of the Certificateholders, pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement,
unless such Certificateholders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable
security or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs, expenses
and liabilities which may be incurred therein or thereby;
(viii) whenever
in the administration of this Agreement the Trustee shall deem it desirable
that
a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any
action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically
prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, conclusively rely
upon
an Officers’ Certificate; and
(ix) the
Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any breach by the Underlying
Certificate Seller of any representation, warranty or covenant or any default
or
event of default unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual
knowledge thereof or unless written notice of any event which is in fact such
a
default or breach is received by the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office
of
the Trustee, and such notice references the Certificates and this
Agreement.
All
rights of action under this Agreement or under any of the Certificates,
enforceable by the Trustee, may be enforced by it without the possession of
any
of such Certificates, or the production thereof at the trial or other proceeding
relating thereto, and any such suit, action or
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proceeding
instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its name for the benefit of all
the Holders of such Certificates, subject to the provisions of this
Agreement.
Section
5.03 Trustee Not Liable
for
Certificates or Deposited Underlying Certificates. The
recitals contained herein and in the Certificates shall be taken as the
statements of the Depositor or the Underlying Certificate Seller, as the case
may be, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their
correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity
or sufficiency of this Agreement or of the Certificates or of any Deposited
Underlying Certificates or related document other than with respect
to the Trustee’s execution and counter-signature of the
Certificates. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or
application by the Depositor or the Underlying Certificate Seller of any funds
paid to the Depositor or the Underlying Certificate Seller in respect of the
Deposited Underlying Certificates.
Section
5.04 Trustee May Own
Certificates. The Trustee in its individual or any other
capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Certificates with the same rights
as
it would have if it were not the Trustee.
Section
5.05 Trustee’s Fees and
Expenses. The Trustee acknowledges that on the Closing Date it
will receive as compensation for all services rendered by it in the execution
of
the trusts hereby created and in the exercise and performance of any of the
powers and duties hereunder and for reimbursement of certain expenses
(including, for the first ten tax years of the Trust Fund, REMIC tax preparation
expenses), payment of a mutually agreed upon one time fee from the Underlying
Certificate Seller. In the event of the resignation or removal of the
Trustee pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, such Trustee will transfer,
deliver and otherwise convey a pro rated portion of such payment to the
successor Trustee as compensation to the successor trustee.
Section
5.06 Indemnification
of the
Trustee. The Underlying Certificate Seller hereby covenants
and agrees to indemnify the Trustee and any director, officer, employee, or
agent of the Trustee for and to hold them harmless against, any and all losses,
liabilities, damages, claims or expenses arising out of or in connection with
the acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts hereunder (including,
without limitation, any losses, liabilities, damages, claims or expenses arising
from the failure of the Underlying Certificate Seller to perform its obligations
in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement or of defending itself
against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance
of
any powers or duties hereunder), other than those resulting from the negligence
or bad faith in the performance of any of the Trustee’s duties hereunder or by
reason of reckless disregard of the Trustee’s obligations and duties
hereunder. Such indemnification shall survive the termination of this
Agreement and the Trust Fund created hereby or the resignation or removal of
the
Trustee pursuant to the terms hereof.
Section
5.07 Eligibility Requirements
for
Trustee. The Trustee hereunder shall at all times be a
corporation or association organized and doing business under the laws of a
state or the United States of America, authorized under such laws to exercise
corporate trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus of at least
$50,000,000, subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authority
and with a credit rating which would not cause either of the Rating Agencies
to
reduce or withdraw their respective then current ratings of the Certificates
(or
having provided such security from time to time as is sufficient to avoid such
reduction as
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evidenced
in writing by each rating agency). If such corporation or association
publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for
the
purposes of this Section 5.07 the combined capital and surplus of such
corporation or association shall be deemed to be its combined capital and
surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so
published. In case at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible
in accordance with the provisions of this Section 5.07, the Trustee shall resign
immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in Section 5.08
hereof. The entity serving as Trustee may have normal banking and
trust relationships with the Depositor and its affiliates and with the
Underlying Certificate Seller and its affiliates; provided, however,
that such
entity cannot be an affiliate of the Depositor or the Underlying Certificate
Seller. The Trustee hereunder shall at all times be the same Person
as the Underlying Trustee or shall have an agreement with the Underlying Trustee
to have access to the information relating to the Underlying Certificate Account
in order to enable the Trustee to perform its duties under Section
3.06(a).
Section
5.08 Resignation and
Removal of
Trustee.
The
Trustee may at any time resign and be discharged from the trusts hereby created
by giving written notice of resignation to the Depositor, the Underlying
Certificate Seller and each Rating Agency not less than 60 days before the
date
specified in such notice when, subject to Section 5.09, such resignation is
to
take effect, and acceptance by a successor trustee in accordance with Section
5.09 meeting the qualifications set forth in Section 5.07. If no
successor trustee meeting such qualifications shall have been so appointed
and
have accepted appointment within 30 days after the giving of such notice or
resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor trustee.
As
a
condition to the effectiveness of any such resignation, at least 15 calendar
days prior to the effective date of such resignation, the Trustee shall provide
(x) written notice to the Depositor of any successor pursuant to this Section
and (y) in writing and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Depositor, all information reasonably requested by the Depositor in order to
comply with its reporting obligation under Item 6.02 of Form 8-K with respect
to
the resignation of the Trustee.
If
at any
time (i) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of Section 5.07 hereof and shall fail to resign after written request
thereto by the Depositor, (ii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting,
or
shall be adjudged as bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver of the Trustee or
of
its property shall be appointed, or any public officer shall take charge or
control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of
rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation, (iii) a tax is imposed with respect
to the Trust Fund by any state in which the Trustee or the Trust Fund is located
and the imposition of such tax would be avoided by the appointment of a
different trustee or (iv) during the period that the Depositor is required
to
file Exchange Act Reports with respect to the Trust Fund, the Trustee fails
to
comply with its obligations under this Agreement, including the preceding
paragraph, Section 5.09 or Article IX and such failure is not remedied within
the lesser of 10 calendar days or such period in which the applicable Exchange
Act Report can be filed timely (without taking into account any extensions),
then, in the case of clauses (i) through (iii), the Depositor or the Master
Servicer, or in the case of clause (iv), the Depositor, may remove the Trustee
and appoint a successor trustee by written
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instrument,
in triplicate, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the Trustee,
one copy of which shall be delivered to the Master Servicer and one copy of
which shall be delivered to the successor trustee.
The
Holders of Certificates entitled to at least 51% of the Voting Rights may at
any
time remove the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee by written instrument
or
instruments, in triplicate, signed by such Holders or their attorneys-in-fact
duly authorized, one complete set of which instruments shall be delivered by
the
successor Trustee to the Depositor, one complete set to the Trustee so removed
and one complete set to the successor so appointed, together with a written
description of the basis of such removal. Notice of any removal of
the Trustee shall be given to each Rating Agency and the Underlying Certificate
Seller by the successor trustee.
Any
resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a successor trustee
pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section 5.08 shall become effective
upon acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee as provided in Section
5.09 hereof.
Section
5.09 Successor
Trustee.
Any
successor trustee appointed as provided in Section 5.08 hereof shall execute,
acknowledge and deliver to the Depositor and to its predecessor trustee and
the
Depositor an instrument accepting such appointment hereunder and thereupon
the
resignation or removal of the predecessor trustee shall become effective and
such successor trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall
become fully vested with all the rights, powers, duties and obligations of
its
predecessor hereunder, with the like effect as if originally named as trustee
herein. The Depositor and the predecessor trustee shall execute and deliver
such
instruments and do such other things as may reasonably be required for more
fully and certainly vesting and confirming in the successor trustee all such
rights, powers, duties, and obligations.
No
successor trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this Section 5.09
unless at the time of such acceptance such successor trustee shall be eligible
under the provisions of Section 5.07 hereof, its appointment shall not adversely
affect the then current rating of the Certificates and such successor trustee
has provided to the Depositor in writing and in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Depositor, all information reasonably requested by the
Depositor in order to comply with its reporting obligation under Item 6.02
of
Form 8-K with respect to a replacement Trustee.
Upon
acceptance of appointment by a successor trustee as provided in this Section
5.09, the Depositor shall mail notice of the succession of such trustee
hereunder to all Holders of Certificates. If the Depositor fails to
mail such notice within 10 days after acceptance of appointment by the successor
trustee, the successor trustee shall cause such notice to be mailed at the
expense of the Depositor.
Section
5.10 Merger or Consolidation
of
Trustee.
Any
corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which
it
may be consolidated or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion
or
consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation
succeeding to the business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee
hereunder, provided that such corporation shall be
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eligible
under the provisions of Section 5.07 hereof without the execution or filing
of
any paper or further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything
herein to the contrary notwithstanding.
As
a
condition to the effectiveness of any merger or consolidation, at least 15
calendar days prior to the effective date of any merger or consolidation of
the
Trustee, the Trustee shall provide (x) written notice to the Depositor of any
successor pursuant to this Section and (y) in writing and in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Depositor, all information reasonably requested
by the Depositor in order to comply with its reporting obligation under Item
6.02 of Form 8-K with respect to a replacement Trustee.
Section
5.11 Appointment of Co-Trustee
or
Separate Trustee.
Notwithstanding
any other provisions of this Agreement, at any time, for the purpose of meeting
any legal requirements of any jurisdiction in which any part of the Trust Fund
at the time be located, the Depositor and the Trustee acting jointly shall
have
the power and shall execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more
Persons approved by the Trustee to act as co-trustee or co-trustees jointly
with
the Trustee, or separate trustee or separate trustees, of all or any part of
the
Trust Fund, and to vest in such Person or Persons, in such capacity and for
the
benefit of the Certificateholders, such title to the Trust Fund or any part
thereof, whichever is applicable, and, subject to the other provisions of this
Section 5.11, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the
Depositor and the Trustee may consider necessary or desirable. If the
Depositor shall not have joined in such appointment within 15 days after the
receipt by it of a request to do so, the Trustee alone shall have the power
to
make such appointment. No co-trustee or separate trustee hereunder
shall be required to meet the terms of eligibility as a successor trustee under
Section 5.07 and no notice to Certificateholders of the appointment of any
co-trustee or separate trustee shall be required under Section
5.09.
Every
separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent permitted by law, be
appointed and act subject to the following provisions and
conditions:
(i) To
the extent necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Section 5.11, all
rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed upon the Trustee
shall be conferred or imposed upon and exercised or performed by the Trustee
and
such separate trustee or co-trustee jointly (it being understood that such
separate trustee or co-trustee is not authorized to act separately without
the
Trustee joining in such act), except to the extent that under any law of any
jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts are to be performed (whether
as
Trustee hereunder or as successor to the Depositor hereunder), the Trustee
shall
be incompetent or unqualified to perform such act or acts, in which event such
rights, powers, duties and obligations (including the holding of title to the
applicable Trust Fund or any portion thereof in any such jurisdiction) shall
be
exercised and performed singly by such separate trustee or co-trustee, but
solely at the direction of the Trustee;
(ii) No
trustee hereunder shall be held personally liable by reason of any act or
omission of any other trustee hereunder and such appointment shall not, and
shall not be deemed to, constitute any such separate trustee or co-trustee
as
agent of the Trustee; and
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(iii) The
Trustee 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 Trustee shall be deemed to have
been given to each of the separate trustees and co-trustees, when and as
effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument appointing
any separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Agreement and the
conditions of this Article V. 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
Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the provisions
of this Agreement, specifically including every provision of this Agreement
relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or affording protection
to, the Trustee. Every such instrument shall be filed with the
Trustee and a copy thereof given to the Depositor.
Any
separate trustee or co-trustee may, at any time, constitute the Trustee its
agent or attorney-in-fact, with full power and authority, to the extent not
prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect of this Agreement
on
its behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee or co-trustee shall die,
become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of its estates,
properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be exercised by the
Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the appointment of a new or
successor trustee.
Section
5.12 Tax
Matters.
It
is
intended that the assets with respect to which any REMIC election is to be
made,
as set forth in the Preliminary Statement, shall constitute, and that the
conduct of matters relating to such assets shall be such as to qualify such
assets as, a “real estate mortgage investment conduit” as defined in and in
accordance with the REMIC Provisions. In furtherance of such
intention, the Trustee covenants and agrees that it shall act as agent (and
the
Trustee is hereby appointed to act as agent) on behalf of any such REMIC and
that in such capacity it shall: (a) prepare and file, or cause to be
prepared and filed, 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 or cause to be prepared and
filed
with the Internal Revenue Service and applicable state or local tax authorities
income tax or information returns for each taxable year with respect to any
such
REMIC, containing such information and at the times and in the manner as may
be
required by the Code or state or local tax laws, regulations, or rules, and
furnish or cause to be furnished to Certificateholders the schedules, statements
or information at such times and in such manner as may be required thereby;
(b)
within thirty days of the Closing Date, furnish or cause to be furnished 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 Certificates may contact for tax information relating thereto,
together with such additional information as may be required by such Form,
and
update such information at the time or times in the manner required by the
Code;
(c) make or cause to be made elections that such assets be treated as a REMIC
on
the federal tax return for its first taxable year (and, if necessary, under
applicable state law); (d) prepare and forward, or cause to be prepared and
forwarded, to the Certificateholders 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 without limitation, the
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calculation
of any original issue discount using the Prepayment Assumption; (e) provide
information necessary for the computation of tax imposed on the transfer of
a
Residual Certificate to a Person that is not a Permitted Transferee, or an
agent
(including a broker, nominee or other middleman) of a Non-Permitted Transferee,
or a pass-through entity in which a Non-Permitted Transferee is the record
holder of an interest (the reasonable cost of computing and furnishing such
information may be charged to the Person liable for such tax); (f) to the extent
that they are under its control conduct matters relating to such assets at
all
times that any Certificates are outstanding so as to maintain the status as
a
REMIC under the REMIC Provisions; (g) not knowingly or intentionally take any
action or omit to take any action that would cause the termination of the tax
status of any REMIC; (h) pay, from the sources specified in the third paragraph
of this Section 5.12, the amount of any federal or state tax, including
prohibited transaction taxes as described below, imposed on any such REMIC
prior
to its termination when and as the same shall be due and payable (but such
obligation shall not prevent the Trustee or any other appropriate Person from
contesting any such tax in appropriate proceedings and shall not prevent the
Trustee from withholding payment of such tax, if permitted by law, pending
the
outcome of such proceedings); (i) ensure that federal, state or local income
tax
or information returns shall be signed by the Trustee or such other person
as
may be required to sign such returns by the Code or state or local laws,
regulations or rules; (j) maintain records relating to any such REMIC, including
but not limited to the income, expenses, assets and liabilities thereof and
the
fair market value and adjusted basis of the assets determined at such intervals
as may be required by the Code, as may be necessary to prepare the foregoing
returns, schedules, statements or information; and (k) as and when necessary
and
appropriate, represent any such 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
such REMIC, enter into settlement agreements with any governmental taxing
agency, extend any statute of limitations relating to any tax item of any such
REMIC, and otherwise act on behalf of any such REMIC in relation to any tax
matter or controversy involving it.
In
order
to enable the Trustee to perform its duties as set forth herein, the Depositor
and the Underlying Certificate Seller shall provide, or cause to be provided,
to
the Trustee within ten (10) days after the Closing Date all information or
data
that the Trustee requests in writing and determines to be relevant for tax
purposes to the valuations and offering prices of the Certificates, including,
without limitation, the price, yield, prepayment assumption and projected cash
flows of the Certificates and the Deposited Underlying
Certificate. Thereafter, the Depositor and the Underlying Certificate
Seller shall provide to the Trustee promptly upon written request therefor,
any
such additional information or data that the Trustee may, from time to time,
reasonably request in order to enable the Trustee to perform its duties as
set
forth herein. The Underlying Certificate Seller hereby indemnifies
the Trustee for any losses, liabilities, damages, claims or expenses of the
Trustee arising from any errors or miscalculations of the Trustee that result
from any failure of the Depositor or the Underlying Certificate Seller to
provide, or to cause to be provided, accurate information or data to the Trustee
on a timely basis.
In
the
event that any tax is imposed on “prohibited transactions” of any REMIC
hereunder as defined in Section 860F(a)(2) of the Code, on the “net income from
foreclosure property” of any REMIC hereunder as defined in Section 860G(c) of
the Code, on any contribution to such REMIC after the Startup Day pursuant
to
Section 860G(d) of the Code, or
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any
other
tax is imposed, including, without limitation, any minimum tax imposed upon
the
REMIC hereunder pursuant to Sections 23153 and 24874 of the California Revenue
and Taxation Code, if not paid as otherwise provided for herein, such tax shall
be paid by (i) the Trustee, if any such other tax arises out of or results
from
a breach by the Trustee of any of its obligations under this Agreement, (ii)
the
Depositor, in the case of any such minimum tax, or if such tax arises out of
or
results from a breach by the Depositor of any of its obligations under this
Agreement, (iii) the Underlying Certificate Seller, if any such tax arises
out
of or results from the Underlying Certificate Seller’s obligation to repurchase
the Deposited Underlying Certificates pursuant to Section 2.03 or (iv) in all
other cases, or in the event that the Trustee, the Depositor or the Underlying
Certificate Seller fails to honor its obligations under the preceding clauses
(i),(ii) or (iii), any such tax will be paid with amounts otherwise to be
distributed to the Certificateholders, as provided in Section 3.03.
For
federal income tax purposes the Trustee shall treat the ES Trust as a Grantor
Trust and shall treat each Holder of an ES Trust Certificate as the owner of
the
individual, underlying assets represented by such ES Trust
Certificate. In addition, to the fullest extent possible, ownership
of an ES Trust Certificate shall be treated as direct ownership of the
individual, underlying assets represented by such ES Trust Certificate for
federal income tax reporting purposes.
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ARTICLE
VI
THE
DEPOSITOR
Section
6.01 Liability of the
Depositor. The Depositor shall be liable in accordance
herewith only to the extent of the obligations specifically imposed upon and
undertaken by the Depositor herein.
Section
6.02 Merger, Consolidation
or
Conversion of the Depositor. The Depositor will keep in full
effect its existence, rights and franchises as a corporation under the laws
of
the United States or under the laws of one of the states thereof and will each
obtain and preserve its qualification to do business as a foreign corporation
in
each jurisdiction in which such qualification is or shall be necessary to
protect the validity and enforceability of this Agreement to perform its duties
under this Agreement.
Any
Person into which the Depositor may be merged or consolidated, or any Person
resulting from any merger or consolidation to which the Depositor shall be
a
party, or any person succeeding to the business of the Depositor, shall be
the
successor of the Depositor hereunder, without the execution or filing of any
paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything
herein to the contrary notwithstanding.
Section
6.03 Limitation on Liability
of
the Depositor and Others. None of the Depositor, or any of the
directors, officers, employees or agents of the Depositor shall be under any
liability to the Certificateholders for any action taken or for refraining
from
the taking of any action in good faith pursuant to this Agreement, or for errors
in judgment; provided, however,
that this
provision shall not protect the Depositor or any such Person against any breach
of representations or warranties made by it herein or protect the Depositor
or
any such Person from any liability which would otherwise be imposed by reasons
of willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence in the performance of
duties or by reason of reckless disregard of obligations and duties
hereunder. The Depositor and any director, officer, employee or agent
of the Depositor may rely in good faith on any document of any kind primafacie
properly
executed and submitted by any Person respecting any matters arising
hereunder. The Depositor and any director, officer, employee or agent
of the Depositor shall be indemnified by the Trust Fund and held harmless
against any loss, liability or expense incurred in connection with any audit,
controversy or judicial proceeding relating to a governmental taxing authority
or any legal action relating to this Agreement or the Certificates, other than
any loss, liability or expense incurred by reason of willful misfeasance, bad
faith or gross negligence in the performance of duties hereunder or by reason
of
reckless disregard of obligations and duties hereunder. The
Depositor, shall be under no obligation to appear in, prosecute or defend any
legal action that is not incidental to its respective duties hereunder and
which
in its opinion may involve it in any expense or liability; provided, however,
that the
Depositor may in its discretion undertake any such action that it may deem
necessary or desirable in respect of this Agreement and the rights and duties
of
the parties hereto and interests of the Trustee and the Certificateholders
hereunder. In such event, the legal expenses and costs of such action
and any liability resulting therefrom shall be expenses, costs and liabilities
of the Trust Fund, and the Depositor shall be entitled to be reimbursed therefor
out of the Distribution Account.
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ARTICLE
VII
TERMINATION
Section
7.01 Termination.
Subject
to Section 7.03, the obligations and responsibilities of the Depositor, the
Underlying Certificate Seller and the Trustee created hereby with respect to
the
Trust Fund shall terminate upon the later of (i) a termination of the Underlying
Trust pursuant to Article IX of the Underlying Agreement, (ii) the receipt
of
the final distribution to be made on the Deposited Underlying Certificates
in
accordance with the terms and conditions of the Underlying Agreement and (iii)
the distribution to Certificateholders of all amounts required to be distributed
to them pursuant to this Agreement. In no event shall the trusts
created hereby continue beyond the earlier of (i) the expiration of 21 years
from the death of the survivor of the descendants of Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, the
late
Ambassador of the United States to the Court of St. James’s, living on the date
hereof and (ii) the Latest Possible Maturity Date.
The
ES
Trust shall terminate automatically upon termination of the Trust
Fund.
Section
7.02 Final Distribution
on the
Certificates.
If
the
Trustee receives notice that the Underlying Trust is to be terminated in
accordance with the terms of the Underlying Agreement, notice shall be given
by
the Trustee to Certificateholders as promptly as practicable
thereafter.
Notice
of
any termination of the Trust Fund, specifying the Distribution Date on which
Certificateholders may surrender their Certificates for payment of the final
distribution and cancellation, shall be given promptly by the Trustee by letter
to Certificateholders mailed not earlier than the 10th day and no later than
the
15th day of the month next preceding the month of such final distribution and
not later than as promptly practicable after the Trustee receives notice that
the Underlying Trust is to be terminated in accordance with the terms of the
Underlying Agreement. Any such notice shall specify (a) the
Distribution Date upon which final distribution on the Certificates will be
made
upon presentation and surrender of Certificates at the office therein
designated, (b) the amount of such final distribution, (c) the location of
the
office or agency at which such presentation and surrender must be made, and
(d)
that the Record Date otherwise applicable to such Distribution Date is not
applicable, distributions being made only upon presentation and surrender of
the
Certificates at the office therein specified. The Trustee will also
give such notice to each Rating Agency at the time such notice is given to
Certificateholders.
Upon
the
final distribution with respect to the Trust Fund, the Trustee shall promptly
release to the Holder of the Class A-R Certificate the Deposited Underlying
Certificates.
Upon
presentation and surrender of the Certificates, the Trustee shall cause to
be
distributed to the Certificateholders of each Class, in the order set forth
in
Section 3.04. hereof, on the final Distribution Date in proportion to their
respective Percentage Interests, with respect to Certificateholders of the
same
Class, an amount equal to (i) as to each Class of Regular
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Certificates,
the Certificate Balance thereof plus accrued interest thereon (or on their
Notional Amount, if applicable) in the case of an interest bearing Certificate
and (ii) as to the Residual Certificates, the amount, if any, which remains
on
deposit in the Distribution Account (other than the amounts retained to meet
claims) after application pursuant to clause (i)
above. Notwithstanding the reduction of the Class Certificate Balance
of any Class of Certificates to zero, such Class will be outstanding hereunder
(solely for the purpose of receiving distributions and not for any other
purpose) until the termination of the respective obligations and
responsibilities of the Depositor, the Underlying Certificate Seller, and the
Trustee hereunder in accordance with Article VII.
In
the
event that any affected Certificateholders shall not surrender Certificates
for
cancellation within six months after the date specified in the above mentioned
written notice, the Trustee shall give a second written notice to the remaining
Certificateholders to surrender their Certificates for cancellation and receive
the final distribution with respect thereto. If within six months
after the second notice all the applicable Certificates shall not have been
surrendered for cancellation, the Trustee may take appropriate steps, or may
appoint an agent to take appropriate steps, to contact the remaining
Certificateholders concerning surrender of their Certificates, and the cost
thereof shall be paid out of the funds and other assets which remain a part
of
the Trust Fund. If within one year after the second notice all
Certificates shall not have been surrendered for cancellation, the Class A-R
Certificateholder shall be entitled to all unclaimed funds and other assets
of
the Trust Fund which remain subject hereto.
Section
7.03 Additional Termination
Requirements.
(a) Upon
the receipt of the final distribution to be made on the Deposited Underlying
Certificates in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Underlying
Agreement, the Holder of the Class A-R Certificate shall cause the Trust Fund
to
be terminated in accordance with the following additional requirements, unless
the Trustee has been supplied with an Opinion of Counsel, at the expense of
the
Holder of the Class A-R Certificate, to the effect that the failure to comply
with the requirements of this Section 7.03 will not (i) result in the imposition
of taxes on “prohibited transactions” on any REMIC as defined in section 860F of
the Code, or (ii) cause any REMIC to fail to qualify as a REMIC at any time
that
any Certificates are outstanding:
(1) Upon
receipt of the notice given pursuant to the Underlying Agreement, but in no
event later than 90 days prior to the final Underlying Distribution Date set
forth in the notice given by the Master Servicer in accordance with the terms
of
the Underlying Agreement, the Trustee shall prepare, at the expense of the
“tax
matters person,” and adopt a plan of complete liquidation within the meaning of
section 860F(a)(4) of the Code which, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel
(which opinion shall not be an expense of the Trustee or the Tax Matters
Person), meets the requirements of a qualified liquidation; and
(2) Within
90 days after the time of adoption of such a plan of complete liquidation,
the
Trustee shall sell all of the assets of the Trust Fund to the Holder of the
Class A-R Certificate for cash in accordance with Section 7.01.
(b) The
Trustee as agent for any REMIC created hereunder hereby agrees to adopt and
sign
such a plan of complete liquidation upon the written request of the Holder
of
the Class
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A-R
Certificate, and the receipt of the Opinion of Counsel referred to in Section
7.03(a)(1) and to take such other action in connection therewith as may be
reasonably requested by the Holder of the Class A-R Certificate.
(c) By
their acceptance of the Certificates, the Holders thereof hereby authorize
the
Holder of the Class A-R Certificate to prepare and the Trustee to adopt and
sign
a plan of complete liquidation.
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ARTICLE
VIII
MISCELLANEOUS
PROVISIONS
Section
8.01 Amendment. This
Agreement may be amended from time to time by the Depositor and the Trustee
without the consent of any of the Certificateholders (i) to cure any ambiguity
or mistake; (ii) to correct any defective provision herein or to supplement
any
provision herein which may be inconsistent with any other provision herein;
(iii) to conform this Agreement to the Prospectus and Prospectus Supplement
provided to investors in connection with the initial offering of the
Certificates; (iv) to add to the duties of the Depositor; (v) to modify, alter,
amend, add, or to rescind any of the terms or provisions contained in this
Agreement to comply with any rules or regulations promulgated by the Securities
and Exchange Commission from time to time; (vi) to add any other provisions
with
respect to matters or questions arising hereunder; or (vii) to modify, alter,
amend, add to or rescind any of the terms or provisions contained in this
Agreement; provided, that any action pursuant to clauses (vi) or (vii) above
shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel (which Opinion of Counsel
shall
not be an expense of the Trustee or the Trust Fund), adversely affect in any
material respect the interests of any Certificateholder; provided, however,
that the
amendment shall not be deemed to adversely affect in any material respect the
interests of the Certificateholders if the Person requesting the amendment
obtains a letter from each Rating Agency stating that the amendment would not
result in the downgrading or withdrawal of the respective ratings then assigned
to the Certificates; it being understood and agreed that any such letter in
and
of itself will not represent a determination as to the materiality of any such
amendment and will represent a determination only as to the credit issues
affecting any such rating. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no
amendment that significantly changes the permitted activities of the Trust
created by this Agreement may be made without the consent of a Majority in
Interest of each Class of Certificates affected by such
amendment. Each party to this Agreement hereby agrees that it will
cooperate with each other party in amending this Agreement pursuant to clause
(v) above. The Trustee and the Depositor also may at any time and
from time to time amend this Agreement without the consent of the
Certificateholders to modify, eliminate or add to any of its provisions to
such
extent as shall be necessary or helpful to (i) maintain the qualification of
any
REMIC as a REMIC under the Code, (ii) avoid or minimize the risk of the
imposition of any tax on any REMIC pursuant to the Code that would be a claim
at
any time prior to the final redemption of the Certificates or (iii) comply
with
any other requirements of the Code, provided that the Trustee has been provided
an Opinion of Counsel, which opinion shall be an expense of the party requesting
such opinion but in any case shall not be an expense of the Trustee or the
Trust
Fund, to the effect that such action is necessary or helpful to, as applicable,
(i) maintain such qualification, (ii) avoid or minimize the risk of the
imposition of such a tax or (iii) comply with any such requirements of the
Code.
This
Agreement may also be amended from time to time by the Depositor and the Trustee
with the consent of the Underlying Certificate Seller (which will not be
unreasonably withheld) and the consent of the Holders of a Majority in Interest
of each Class of Certificates affected thereby for the purpose of adding any
provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions
of
this Agreement or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of
Certificates; provided, however,
that no such
amendment shall (i) reduce in any manner the
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amount
of, or delay the timing of, payments required to be distributed on any
Certificate without the consent of the Holder of such Certificate, (ii)
adversely affect in any material respect the interests of the Holders of any
Class of Certificates in a manner other than as described in (i), without the
consent of the Holders of Certificates of such Class evidencing, as to such
Class, Percentage Interests aggregating 66 2/3% or (iii) reduce the aforesaid
percentages of Certificates the Holders of which are required to consent to
any
such amendment, without the consent of the Holders of all such Certificates
then
outstanding.
Any
amendment made pursuant to either of the preceding two paragraphs that
materially and adversely affects the rights of the Underlying Certificate Seller
shall not be made without the prior written consent of the Underlying
Certificate Seller.
Notwithstanding
any contrary provision of this Agreement, the Trustee shall not consent to
any
amendment to this Agreement unless it shall have first received an Opinion
of
Counsel, which opinion shall not be an expense of the Trustee or the Trust
Fund,
to the effect that such 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.
Promptly
after the execution of any amendment to this Agreement requiring the consent
of
Certificateholders, the Trustee shall furnish written notification of the
substance or a copy of such amendment to each Certificateholder and each Rating
Agency.
It
shall
not be necessary for the consent of Certificateholders under this Section to
approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, but it shall be
sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance thereof. The
manner of obtaining such consents and of evidencing the authorization of the
execution thereof by Certificateholders shall be subject to such reasonable
regulations as the Trustee may prescribe.
Nothing
in this Agreement shall require the Trustee to enter into an amendment without
receiving an Opinion of Counsel (which Opinion shall not be an expense of the
Trustee or the Trust Fund) satisfactory to the Trustee that (i) such amendment
is permitted and is not prohibited by this Agreement and that all requirements
for amending this Agreement have been complied with; and (ii) either (A)
the amendment does not adversely affect in any material respect the interests
of
any Certificateholder or (B) the conclusion set forth in the immediately
preceding clause (A) is not required to be reached pursuant to this Section
8.01.
Section
8.02 Action Under and
Conflicts
With the Underlying Agreement. Subject to the terms hereof, in
the event that there shall be any matters arising under the Underlying Agreement
which require the vote or direction of the holders of the Deposited Underlying
Certificates, the Trustee, as holder of the Deposited Underlying Certificates,
shall vote the Deposited Underlying Certificates in accordance with instructions
received from Holders of a Majority in Interest of the related Class of Regular
Certificates. In the absence of any such instructions, the Trustee
shall not vote; provided, however,
that,
notwithstanding the absence of such instructions, in the event a required
distribution pursuant to the Underlying Agreement shall not have been made,
the
Trustee shall, subject to the provisions of Article V hereof, pursue such
remedies as may be available to it as holder of such Deposited Underlying
Certificates in accordance with the terms of the Underlying
Agreement.
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Section
8.03 Recordation of
Agreement. This Agreement (or an abstract hereof, if
acceptable by the applicable recording office) is subject to recordation in
all
appropriate public offices for real property records in all the counties or
other comparable jurisdiction in which any or all of the properties subject
to
the underlying mortgages are situated, and in any other appropriate public
recording office or elsewhere, such recordation to be effected by the Depositor
at its expense but only upon direction by the Trustee accompanied by an Opinion
of Counsel to the effect that such recordation materially and beneficially
affects the interests of the Certificateholders.
For
the
purpose of facilitating the recordation of this Agreement as herein provided
and
for other purposes, this Agreement may be executed simultaneously in any number
of counterparts, each of which counterparts shall be deemed to be an original,
and such counterparts shall constitute but one and the same
instrument.
Section
8.04 Certain REMIC
Matters. The Depositor, upon request, shall promptly furnish
the Trustee with all such information as may be reasonably required in
connection with the Trustee’s preparation of all Tax Returns of each REMIC
hereunder or to enable the Trustee to respond to reasonable requests for
information made by related Certificateholders in connection with tax
matters.
Section
8.05 Limitation on Rights
of
Certificateholders. The death or incapacity of any
Certificateholder shall not operate to terminate this Agreement or the trust
created hereby, nor entitle such Certificateholder’s legal representative or
heirs to claim an accounting or to take any action or commence any proceeding
in
any court for a petition or winding up of the trust created hereby, or otherwise
affect the rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties hereto or any
of
them.
No
Certificateholder shall have any right to vote (except as provided herein)
or in
any manner otherwise control the operation and management of the Trust Fund,
or
the obligations of the parties hereto, nor shall anything herein set forth
or
contained in the terms of the Certificates be construed so as to constitute
the
Certificateholders from time to time as partners or members of an association;
nor shall any Certificateholder be under any liability to any third party by
reason of any action taken by the parties to this Agreement pursuant to any
provision hereof.
No
Certificateholder shall have any right by virtue or by availing itself of any
provisions of this Agreement to institute any suit, action or proceeding in
equity or at law upon or under or with respect to this Agreement, unless there
shall have been a failure to pay amounts due under this Agreement to the
Certificateholders and the Holders of Certificates evidencing not less than
25%
of the Voting Rights evidenced by the Certificates shall also have made written
request to the Trustee to institute such action, suit or proceeding in its
own
name as Trustee hereunder and shall have offered to the Trustee such reasonable
indemnity as it may require against the costs, expenses, and liabilities to
be
incurred therein or thereby, and the Trustee, for 60 days after its receipt
of
such notice, request and offer of indemnity shall have neglected or refused
to
institute any such action, suit or proceeding; it being understood and intended,
and being expressly covenanted by each Certificateholder with every other
Certificateholder and the Trustee, that no one or more Holders of Certificates
shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue or by availing itself
or
themselves of any provisions of this Agreement to affect, disturb or prejudice
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the
rights of the Holders of any other of the Certificates, or to obtain or seek
to
obtain priority over or preference to any other such Holder or to enforce any
right under this Agreement, except in the manner herein provided and for the
common benefit of all Certificateholders. For the protection and
enforcement of the provisions of this Section 8.05, each and every
Certificateholder and the Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as can be
given either at law or in equity.
Section
8.06 Governing
Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND
GOVERNED BY THE SUBSTANTIVE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPLICABLE TO
AGREEMENTS MADE AND TO BE PERFORMED IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK AND THE
OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HERETO AND THE
CERTIFICATEHOLDERS SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH
LAWS.
Section
8.07 Notices. (a) The
Trustee shall use its best efforts to promptly provide notice to each Rating
Agency with respect to each of the following of which it has actual
knowledge:
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Any
material change or amendment to this
Agreement;
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2.
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The
resignation or termination of the Trustee and the appointment of
any
successor;
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3.
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The
repurchase of the Deposited Underlying Certificates pursuant to Section
2.03;
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4.
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The
final payment to Certificateholders;
and
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5.
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Any
rating action involving the Deposited Underlying Certificates, which
notice shall be made by first-class mail within two Business Days
after
the Trustee gains actual knowledge
thereof.
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In
addition, the Trustee shall promptly furnish to each Rating Agency, the
Underlying Certificate Seller copies of each report to Certificateholders
described in Section 3.08.
All
demands, notices and directions hereunder shall be in writing and shall be
deemed effective when delivered to: (i) in the case of the Depositor,
CWALT, Inc., 0000 Xxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000,
Attention: Structured Finance, and a copy to CWALT, Inc., 0000 Xxxx
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: General Counsel, (ii) in the
case of the Underlying Certificate Seller, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., 00
Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: Legal and (iii) in the case
of
the Trustee, The Bank of New York, 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, 0X, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx
00000, Attention: Corporate Trust – Resecuritization Unit, or such
other address as may hereafter be furnished by any party to the
others. Any notice required or permitted to be mailed to a
Certificateholder shall be given by first class mail, postage prepaid, at the
address of such Holder as shown in the Certificate Register; any notice so
mailed within the time prescribed in this Agreement shall be conclusively
presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Certificateholder receives
such notice.
Section
8.08 Severability of
Provisions. If any one or more of the covenants, agreements,
provisions or terms of this Agreement shall be for any reason whatsoever held
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invalid,
then such covenants, agreements, provisions or terms shall be deemed severable
from the remaining covenants, agreements, provisions or terms of this Agreement
and shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of the other
provisions of this Agreement or of the Certificates or the rights of the Holders
thereof.
Section
8.09 Successors and
Assigns. The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding
upon and inure to the benefit of the respective successors and assigns of the
parties hereto, and all such provisions shall inure to the benefit of the
Certificateholders.
Section
8.10 Article and Section
Headings. The article and section headings herein are for
convenience of reference only, and shall not limit or otherwise affect the
meaning hereof.
Section
8.11 Certificates Nonassessable
and Fully Paid. It is the intention of the Depositor that
Certificateholders shall not be personally liable for obligations of the Trust
Fund, that the interests in the Trust Fund represented by the Certificates
shall
be nonassessable for any reason whatsoever, and that the Certificates, upon
due
authentication thereof by the Trustee pursuant to this Agreement, are and shall
be deemed fully paid.
Section
8.12 Protection of
Assets.
(a) Except
for transactions and activities entered into in connection with the
securitization that is the subject of this Agreement, the Trust Fund created
by
this Agreement is not authorized and has no power to:
(i) borrow
money or issue debt;
(ii) merge
with another entity, reorganize, liquidate or sell assets; or
(iii) engage
in any business or activities.
(b) Each
party to this Agreement agrees that it will not file an involuntary bankruptcy
petition against the Trustee or the Trust Fund or initiate any other form of
insolvency proceeding until the date that is one year and one day after the
Certificates have been paid.
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ARTICLE
IX
EXCHANGE
ACT REPORTING
Section
9.01 Filing
Obligations. The
Trustee and Underlying Certificate Seller shall reasonably cooperate with the
Depositor in connection with the satisfaction of the Depositor’s reporting
requirements under the Exchange Act with respect to the Trust
Fund. In addition to the information specified below, if so requested
by the Depositor for the purpose of satisfying its reporting obligation under
the Exchange Act, the Trustee and Underlying Certificate Seller shall provide
the Depositor with (a) such information which is available to such Person
without unreasonable effort or expense and within such timeframe as may be
reasonably requested by the Depositor to comply with the Depositor’s reporting
obligations under the Exchange Act and (b) to the extent such Person is a party
(and the Depositor is not a party) to any agreement or amendment required to
be
filed, copies of such agreement or amendment in XXXXX-compatible
form.
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Section
9.02
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Form
10-D
Filings.
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(a) In
accordance with the Exchange Act, the Trustee shall prepare for filing and
file
within 15 days after each Distribution Date (subject to permitted extensions
under the Exchange Act) with the Commission with respect to the Trust Fund,
a
Form 10-D with copies of the Monthly Statement and, to the extent delivered
to
the Trustee, no later than 10 days following the Distribution Date, such other
information identified by the Depositor, in writing, to be filed with the
Commission (such other information, the “Additional Designated
Information”). If the Depositor directs that any Additional
Designated Information is to be filed with any Form 10-D, the Depositor shall
specify the Item on Form 10-D to which such information is responsive and,
with
respect to any Exhibit to be filed on Form 10-D, the Exhibit
number. Any information to be filed on Form 10-D shall be delivered
to the Trustee in XXXXX-compatible form or as otherwise agreed upon by the
Trustee and the Depositor, at the Depositor’s expense, and any necessary
conversion to XXXXX-compatible format will be at the Depositor’s
expense. At the reasonable request of, and in accordance with the
reasonable directions of, the Depositor, subject to the two preceding sentences,
the Trustee shall prepare for filing and file an amendment to any Form 10-D
previously filed with the Commission with respect to the Trust
Fund. The Depositor shall sign the Form 10-D filed on behalf of the
Trust Fund.
(b) No
later than each Distribution Date, the Trustee shall notify the Depositor of
any
Form 10-D Disclosure Item, together with a description of any such Form 10-D
Disclosure Item in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the
Depositor. In addition to such information as the Trustee is
obligated to provide pursuant to other provisions of this Agreement, if so
requested by the Depositor, the Trustee shall provide such information, which
is
available to the Trustee, without unreasonable effort or expense regarding
the
performance of the Deposited Underlying Certificates as is reasonably required
to facilitate preparation of distribution reports in accordance with Item 1121
of Regulation AB. Such information shall be provided concurrently
with the delivering of the Monthly Statement, commencing with the first such
report due not less than five Business Days following such request.
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(c) The
Trustee shall not have any responsibility to file any items (other than those
generated by it) that have not been received in a format suitable (or readily
convertible into a format suitable) for electronic filing via the XXXXX system
and shall not have any responsibility to convert any such items to such format
(other than those items generated by it or that are readily convertible to
such
format). The Trustee shall have no liability to the
Certificateholders, the Trust Fund or the Depositor with respect to any failure
to properly prepare or file any of Form 10-D to the extent that such failure
is
not the result of any negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct on its
part.
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Section
9.03
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Form
8-K
Filings.
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The
Trustee shall prepare and file on behalf of the Trust Fund any Form 8-K required
by the Exchange Act. Each Form 8-K must be signed by the
Trustee. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Depositor, but in no
event later than one (1) Business Day after its occurrence, of any Reportable
Event of which it has actual knowledge. Each Person shall be deemed
to have actual knowledge of any such event to the extent that it relates to
such
Person or any action or failure to act by such Person.
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Section
9.04
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Form
10-K
Filings.
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Prior
to
March 30th of each year, commencing in 2008 (or such earlier date as may be
required by the Exchange Act), the Depositor shall prepare and file on behalf
of
the Trust Fund a Form 10-K, in form and substance as required by the Exchange
Act. A senior officer in charge of the servicing function of the
Trustee shall sign each Form 10-K filed on behalf of the Trust
Fund. Such Form 10-K shall include as exhibits each (i) annual
compliance statement described under Section 3.11, (ii) annual report on
assessments of compliance with servicing criteria described under Section 9.07
and (iii) accountant’s report described under Section 9.07. Each Form
10-K shall also include any Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Certification required to be included
therewith, as described in Section 9.05.
If
the
Item 1119 Parties listed on Exhibit J have changed since the Closing Date,
no
later than March 1 of each year, the Depositor shall provide the Trustee with
an
updated Exhibit J setting forth the Item 1119 Parties. No later than
March 15 of each year, commencing in 2008, the Trustee shall notify the
Depositor of any Form 10-K Disclosure Item, together with a description of
any
such Form 10-K Disclosure Item in form and substance reasonably acceptable
to
the Depositor. Additionally, the Trustee shall provide, and shall
cause each Reporting Subcontractor retained by the Trustee to provide, the
following information no later than March 15 of each year in which a Form 10-K
is required to be filed on behalf of the Trust Fund: (i) if such Person’s report
on assessment of compliance with the servicing criteria described under Section
9.07 or related registered public accounting firm attestation report described
under Section 9.07 identifies any material instance of noncompliance,
notification of such instance of noncompliance and (ii) if any such Person’s
report on assessment of compliance with the servicing criteria or related
registered public accounting firm attestation report is not provided to be
filed
as an exhibit to such Form 10-K, information detailing the explanation why
such
report is not included.
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Section
9.05
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Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx
Certification.
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Each
Form
10-K shall include a certification (the “Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx
Certification”) required by Rules 13a-14(d) and 15d-14(d) under the
Exchange Act (pursuant to Section 302 of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 and
the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder (including
any interpretations thereof by the Commission’s staff)). No later
than March 15 of each year, beginning in 2008, the Trustee shall cause each
Reporting Subcontractor to, provide to the Person who signs the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx
Certification (the “Certifying Person”) a
certification (each, a “Performance
Certification”), in the form attached hereto as Exhibit I, on which the
Certifying Person, the entity for which the Certifying Person acts as an
officer, and such entity’s officers, directors and Affiliates (collectively with
the Certifying Person, “Certification
Parties”) can reasonably rely. The senior officer in charge of
reviewing the servicing function of the Trustee shall serve as the Certifying
Person on behalf of the Trust Fund. Neither the Trustee nor the
Depositor will request delivery of a certification under this clause unless
the
Depositor is required under the Exchange Act to file an annual report on Form
10-K with respect to the Trust Fund. In the event that prior to the
filing date of the Form 10-K in March of each year, the Trustee or the Depositor
has actual knowledge of information material to the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx
Certification, the Trustee or the Depositor, as the case may be, shall promptly
notify the Depositor. The respective parties hereto agree to
cooperate with all reasonable requests made by any Certifying Person or
Certification Party in connection with such Person’s attempt to conduct any due
diligence that such Person reasonably believes to be appropriate in order to
allow it to deliver any Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Certification or portion thereof with
respect to the Trust Fund.
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Section
9.06
|
Form
15
Filing.
|
Prior
to
January 30 of the first year in which the Depositor is able to do so under
applicable law, the Depositor shall file a Form 15 relating to the automatic
suspension of reporting in respect of the Trust Fund under the Exchange
Act.
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Section
9.07
|
Report
on Assessment
of Compliance and
Attestation.
|
(a) On
or before March 15 of each calendar year, commencing in 2008:
(1) the
Trustee shall deliver to the Depositor a report (in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Depositor) regarding the Trustee’s assessment of
compliance with the Servicing Criteria during the immediately preceding calendar
year, as required under Rules 13a-18 and 15d-18 of the Exchange Act and Item
1122 of Regulation AB. Such report shall be signed by an authorized
officer of such Person and shall address each of the Servicing Criteria
specified on a certification substantially in the form of Exhibit I hereto
delivered to the Depositor concurrently with the execution of this
Agreement. To the extent any of the Servicing Criteria are not
applicable to such Person, with respect to asset-backed securities transactions
taken as a whole involving such Person and that are backed by the same asset
type backing the Certificates, such report shall include such a statement to
that effect. The Depositor, and each of its respective officers and
directors shall be entitled to rely on upon each such servicing criteria
assessment.
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(2) The
Trustee shall deliver to the Depositor a report of a registered public
accounting firm reasonably acceptable to the Depositor that attests to, and
reports on, the assessment of compliance made by the Trustee and delivered
pursuant to the preceding paragraphs. Such attestation shall be in
accordance with Rules 1-02(a)(3) and 2-02(g) of Regulation S-X under the
Securities Act and the Exchange Act, including, without limitation that in
the
event that an overall opinion cannot be expressed, such registered public
accounting firm shall state in such report why it was unable to express such
an
opinion. Such report must be available for general use and not
contain restricted use language. To the extent any of the Servicing
Criteria are not applicable to the Trustee, with respect to asset-backed
securities transactions taken as a whole involving the Trustee and that are
backed by the same asset type backing the Certificates, such report shall
include such a statement that that effect.
(3) The
Trustee shall cause each Reporting Subcontractor to deliver to the Depositor
an
assessment of compliance and accountant’s attestation as and when provided in
paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section 9.07.
(4) The
Trustee shall execute (and cause each Reporting Subcontractor to execute) a
reliance certificate to enable the Certification Parties to rely upon each
(i)
annual compliance statement provided pursuant to Section 3.11, (ii) annual
report on assessments of compliance with servicing criteria provided pursuant
to
this Section 9.07 and (iii) accountant’s report provided pursuant to this
Section 9.07 and shall include a certification that each such annual compliance
statement or report discloses any deficiencies or defaults described to the
registered public accountants of such Person to enable such accountants to
render the certificates provided for in this Section 9.07.
(b) In
the event that the Trustee or Reporting Subcontractor is terminated or resigns
during the term of this Agreement, such Person shall provide documents and
information required by this Section 9.07 with respect to the period of time
it
was subject to this Agreement or provided services with respect to the Trust
Fund, the Certificates or the Deposited Underlying Certificates.
(c) An
assessment of compliance provided by a Subcontractor pursuant to Section
9.07(a)(3) need not address any elements of the Servicing Criteria other than
those specified by the Trustee, as applicable, pursuant to Section
9.07(a)(1).
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Section
9.08
|
Use
of
Subcontractors.
|
It
shall
not be necessary for the Trustee to seek the consent of the Depositor or any
other party hereto to the utilization of any Subcontractor. The
Trustee shall promptly upon request provide to the Depositor (or any designee
of
the Depositor, such as the administrator) a written description (in form and
substance satisfactory to the Depositor) of the role and function of each
Subcontractor utilized by such Person, specifying (i) the identity of each
such
Subcontractor, (ii) which (if any) of such Subcontractors are “participating in
the servicing function” within the meaning of Item 1122 of Regulation AB, and
(iii) which elements of the
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Servicing
Criteria will be addressed in assessments of compliance provided by each
Subcontractor identified pursuant to clause (ii) of this paragraph.
As
a
condition to the utilization of any Subcontractor determined to be a Reporting
Subcontractor, the Trustee shall cause any such Subcontractor used by the
Trustee for the benefit of the Depositor to comply with the provisions of
Sections 9.07 and 9.09 of this Agreement to the same extent as if such
Subcontractor were the Trustee (except with respect to preparing and filing
any
Exchange Act Reports or as the Certifying Person). The Trustee shall
be responsible for obtaining from each Subcontractor and delivering to the
Depositor any assessment of compliance and attestation required to be delivered
by such Subcontractor under Section 9.05 and Section 9.07, in each case as
and
when required to be delivered.
|
Section
9.09
|
Amendments.
|
In
the
event the parties to this Agreement desire to further clarify or amend any
provision of this Article IX, this Agreement shall be amended to reflect the
new
agreement between the parties covering matters in this Article IX pursuant
to
Section 8.01, which amendment shall not require any Opinion of Counsel or Rating
Agency confirmations or the consent of any Certificateholder.
|
Section
9.10
|
Reconciliation
of
Accounts.
|
Any
reconciliation of Accounts performed by any party hereto, or any Subcontractor
shall be prepared no later than 45 calendar days after the bank statement cutoff
date.
* * *
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the Depositor, the Underlying Certificate Seller and the
Trustee have caused their names to be signed hereto by their respective officers
thereunto duly authorized, all as of the day and year first above
written.
CWALT,
INC.,
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as Depositor | |||
|
By:
|
/s/ Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx | |
Name: Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx | |||
Title: Senior Vice President | |||
THE
BANK OF NEW YORK,
|
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not in its individual capacity, | |||
but solely as Trustee | |||
|
By:
|
/s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxx | |
Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxxx | |||
Title: Assistant Vice President | |||
DEUTSCHE
BANK SECURITIES INC.,
|
|||
as Underlying Certificate Seller | |||
|
By:
|
/s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx | |
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx | |||
Title: Director | |||
DEUTSCHE
BANK SECURITIES INC.,
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as Underlying Certificate Seller | |||
|
By:
|
/s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx | |
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx | |||
Title: Director | |||
SCHEDULE
I
LIST
OF DEPOSITED UNDERLYING
CERTIFICATES AND THE UNDERLYING AGREEMENT
DEPOSITED
UNDERLYING
CERTIFICATES
|
CLASS
CERTIFICATE
BALANCES
AS OF
NOVEMBER
26, 2007(1)
|
UNDERLYING
AGREEMENT
|
||
50%
and 30.1242103% interest in the CWALT, Inc., Alternative Loan Trust
2006-39CB, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-39CB,
Class
2-A-1 and Class 2-A-2 Certificates, respectively.
|
Class
2-A-1 Certificates:
$29,258,519
Class
2-A-2 Certificates:
$12,539,408
(2)
|
Pooling
and Servicing Agreement, dated as of November 1, 2006 among CWALT,
Inc.,
as depositor, Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., as a seller, Park Granada,
LLC, as a seller, Park Monaco, Inc., as a seller, Park Sienna LLC,
as a
seller, Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP, as master servicer,
and The
Bank of New York, as trustee.
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||
__________
|
||||
(1) After
giving effect to distributions made on such date.
(2) The
Class 2-A-2 Certificates are notional amount certificates. The
notional amount of the Class 2-A-2 Certificates for each Distribution
Date
will equal the aggregate Class Certificate Balance of the CWALT,
Inc.,
Alternative Loan Trust 2006-39CB, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates,
Series 2006-39CB Class 2-A-1, Class 2-A-4 and Class 2-A-5 Certificates
immediately prior to such Distribution
Date.
|
S-I-1
SCHEDULE
II
Principal
Balances Schedule
[Reserved]
S-II-1
SCHEDULE
III
AVAILABLE
EXCHANGES OF DEPOSITABLE
CERTIFICATES FOR EXCHANGEABLE CERTIFICATES(1)(2)
Classes of Depositable
Certificates
|
Related Classes of Exchangeable
Certificates
|
|||||
Classes
of
Depositable
Certificates
|
Original
Certificate
Balance
or Notional
Amount
|
Pass-
Through
Rate
|
Classes
of
Exchangeable
Certificates
|
Original
Certificate
Balance
or
Notional
Amount
|
Pass-
Through
Rate
|
|
Recombination
1
|
||||||
Class A-1
|
$29,258,519
|
7.00%
|
Class
A-3
|
$29,258,519
|
LIBOR
+ 0.45%
|
|
Class
A-4(3)
|
$29,258,519
|
6.55%
- LIBOR
|
||||
Recombination
2(4)
|
||||||
Class A-1
|
$29,258,519
|
7.00%
|
Class
A-5
|
$29,258,519
|
5.50%
|
|
Class
A-6
|
$29,258,519
|
6.00%
|
||||
Class
A-7
|
$29,258,519
|
6.50%
|
||||
Class
A-8(3)
|
$ 6,269,682
|
7.00%
|
||||
Recombination
3
|
||||||
Class A-2 |
$12,539,408
|
7.00%
|
Class
A-9
|
$12,539,408
|
LIBOR
+ 0.45%
|
|
Class
A-10(3)
|
$12,539,408
|
6.55%
- LIBOR
|
||||
Recombination
4(5)
|
||||||
Class A-2
|
$12,539,408
|
7.00%
|
Class
A-11
|
$29,258,519
|
5.50%
|
|
Class
A-12
|
$29,258,519
|
6.00%
|
||||
Class
A-13
|
$29,258,519
|
6.50%
|
||||
Class
A-14(3)
|
$ 2,687,016
|
7.00%
|
||||
_________
(1)
|
Depositable
Certificates and Exchangeable Certificates may be exchanged only
in the
proportions shown in this Schedule III. In any exchange, the
relative proportions of the Depositable Certificates to be delivered
(or,
if applicable, received) in such exchange will equal the proportions
reflected by the Outstanding Class Certificate Balances or Notional
Amounts of the related Depositable Certificates at the time of
exchange.
|
(2)
|
If,
as a result of a proposed exchange, a Certificateholder would hold
a
Depositable Certificate or Exchangeable Certificate of a class in
an
amount less than the applicable minimum Denomination for that Class,
the
Certificateholder will be unable to effect the proposed
exchange.
|
(3)
|
The
Class A-4, Class A-8, Class A-10 and Class A-14 Certificates are
interest
only Notional Amount Certificates.
|
S-III-1
(4)
|
In
Recombination 2, the Class A-1 Certificates may be exchanged for
either
(i) the Class A-5 and Class A-8 Certificates, (ii) the Class A-6
and Class
A-8 Certificates or (iii) the Class A-7 and Class A-8 Certificates
in such
proportions that result in the principal and interest entitlements
of the
Classes of Certificates received being equal to the principal and
interest
entitlements of the Class A-1
Certificates.
|
(5)
|
In
Recombination 4, the Class A-2 Certificates may be exchanged for
either
(i) the Class A-11 and Class A-14 Certificates, (ii) the Class A-12
and
Class A-14 Certificates or (iii) the Class A-13 and Class A-14
Certificates in such proportions that result in the principal and
interest
entitlements of the Classes of Certificates received being equal
to the
principal and interest entitlements of the Class A-2
Certificates.
|
2
EXHIBIT
A
[FORM
OF
SENIOR OR EXCHANGEABLE CERTIFICATE]
[UNLESS
THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY
TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR
REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE, OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED
IS
REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED
BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE
&
CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE
OF
DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE
BY OR TO
ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO.,
HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.]
[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 INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF
1986, AS
AMENDED (THE “CODE”).]
[UNTIL
THIS CERTIFICATE HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF AN ERISA-QUALIFYING UNDERWRITING,
NEITHER THIS CERTIFICATE NOR ANY INTEREST HEREIN MAY BE TRANSFERRED UNLESS
THE
TRANSFEREE DELIVERS TO THE TRUSTEE EITHER (A) A REPRESENTATION LETTER TO
THE
EFFECT THAT SUCH TRANSFEREE IS NOT, AND IS NOT INVESTING ASSETS OF, AN
EMPLOYEE
BENEFIT PLAN SUBJECT TO THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF
1974, AS
AMENDED (“ERISA”), OR A PLAN OR ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT TO SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE,
OR (B) AN OPINION OF COUNSEL IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE AGREEMENT
REFERRED TO HEREIN. SUCH REPRESENTATION SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE BEEN
MADE TO THE TRUSTEE BY THE TRANSFEREE’S ACCEPTANCE OF A CERTIFICATE OF THIS
CLASS AND BY A BENEFICIAL OWNER’S ACCEPTANCE OF ITS INTEREST IN A CERTIFICATE OF
THIS CLASS. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING ELSE TO THE CONTRARY HEREIN, UNTIL
THIS
CERTIFICATE HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF AN ERISA-QUALIFYING UNDERWRITING, ANY
PURPORTED TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE TO, OR TO A PERSON INVESTING ASSETS
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
TRUSTEE AS DESCRIBED ABOVE SHALL BE VOID AND OF NO EFFECT.]
A-1
Certificate
No.
|
:
|
|
Cut-off
Date
|
:
|
November
26, 2007
|
First
Distribution Date
|
:
|
December
26, 2007
|
Initial
Certificate Balance
|
||
of
this Certificate
|
||
(“Denomination”)
|
:
|
$[ ]
|
Initial
Certificate Balance
|
||
of
all Certificates
|
||
of
this Class
|
:
|
$[ ]
|
CUSIP
|
:
|
[ ]
|
Interest
Rate
|
:
|
[ ]%
|
Maturity
Date
|
:
|
January
25, 2037
|
CWALT,
INC.
Resecuritization
Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-26R
Class
[ ]
evidencing
a percentage interest in the distributions allocable to the Certificates
of the
above-referenced Class with respect to a Trust Fund consisting primarily
of the
Deposited Underlying Certificates.
CWALT,
Inc., as Depositor
Principal
in respect of this Certificate is distributable monthly as set forth
herein. Accordingly, the Certificate Balance at any time may be less
than the Certificate Balance as set forth herein. This Certificate
does not evidence an obligation of, or an interest in, and is not guaranteed
by
the Depositor, the Underlying Certificate Seller or the Trustee referred
to
below or any of their respective affiliates. Neither this Certificate
nor the Deposited Underlying Certificates 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 (obtained by dividing the denomination of
this
Certificate by the aggregate Initial Certificate Balance of all Certificates
of
the Class to which this Certificate belongs) in certain monthly distributions
with respect to a Trust Fund consisting primarily of the
A-2
Deposited
Underlying Certificates deposited by CWALT, Inc. (the
“Depositor”). The Trust Fund was created pursuant to a Trust
Agreement dated as of the Cut-off Date specified above (the “Agreement”) among
the Depositor, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., as underlying certificate
seller
(the “Underlying Certificate Seller”), and The Bank of New York, as trustee,
securities intermediary and bank (the “Trustee”). To the extent not
defined herein, the capitalized terms used herein have the meanings assigned
in
the Agreement. This Certificate is issued under and is subject to the
terms, provisions and conditions of the Agreement, to which Agreement the
Holder
of this Certificate by virtue of the acceptance hereof assents and by which
such
Holder is bound.
[Until
this certificate has been the subject of an ERISA-Qualifying Underwriting,
no
transfer of a Certificate of this Class shall be made unless the 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
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 Trustee, the Master Servicer or the Trust Fund, 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 Trustee to the effect that the purchase and
holding
of such Certificate will not result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction
under
Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, and will not subject
the
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
Trustee, the Master Servicer or the Trust Fund. Unless the transferee
delivers the Opinion of Counsel described above, such representation shall
be
deemed to have been made to the Trustee by the Transferee’s acceptance of a
Certificate of this Class and by a beneficial owner’s acceptance of its interest
in a Certificate of this Class. Notwithstanding anything else to the
contrary herein, until such certificate has been the subject of an
ERISA-Qualifying Underwriting, any purported transfer of a Certificate
of this
Class to, or to a person investing assets 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 Trustee as described above shall
be
void and of no effect.]
Reference
is hereby made to the further provisions of this Certificate set forth
on the
reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the
same
effect as if set forth at this place.
This
Certificate shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Agreement or
be valid
for any purpose unless manually countersigned by an authorized signatory
of the
Trustee.
* * *
A-3
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trustee has caused this Certificate to be duly
executed.
Dated: December
___, 2007
THE
BANK
OF NEW YORK,
as
Trustee
By
______________________
Countersigned:
By ________________________________
Authorized
Signatory of
THE
BANK
OF NEW YORK,
as
Trustee
A-4
EXHIBIT
B
[FORM
OF
NOTIONAL AMOUNT CERTIFICATE]
UNLESS
THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY
TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR
REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE, OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED
IS
REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED
BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE
&
CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE
OF
DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE
BY OR TO
ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO.,
HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
THIS
CERTIFICATE HAS NO PRINCIPAL BALANCE AND IS NOT ENTITLED TO ANY DISTRIBUTION
IN
RESPECT OF PRINCIPAL.
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 INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF
1986, AS
AMENDED (THE “CODE”).
[UNTIL
THIS CERTIFICATE HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF AN ERISA-QUALIFYING UNDERWRITING,
NEITHER THIS CERTIFICATE NOR ANY INTEREST HEREIN MAY BE TRANSFERRED UNLESS
THE
TRANSFEREE DELIVERS TO THE TRUSTEE EITHER (A) A REPRESENTATION LETTER TO
THE
EFFECT THAT SUCH TRANSFEREE IS NOT, AND IS NOT INVESTING ASSETS OF, AN
EMPLOYEE
BENEFIT PLAN SUBJECT TO THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF
1974, AS
AMENDED (“ERISA”), OR A PLAN OR ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT TO SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE,
OR (B) AN OPINION OF COUNSEL IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE AGREEMENT
REFERRED TO HEREIN. SUCH REPRESENTATION SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE BEEN
MADE TO THE TRUSTEE BY THE TRANSFEREE’S ACCEPTANCE OF A CERTIFICATE OF THIS
CLASS AND BY A BENEFICIAL OWNER’S ACCEPTANCE OF ITS INTEREST IN A CERTIFICATE OF
THIS CLASS. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING ELSE TO THE CONTRARY HEREIN, UNTIL
THIS
CERTIFICATE HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF AN ERISA-QUALIFYING UNDERWRITING, ANY
PURPORTED TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE TO, OR A PERSON INVESTING ASSETS
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
TRUSTEE AS DESCRIBED ABOVE SHALL BE VOID AND OF NO EFFECT.]
B-1
Certificate
No.
|
:
|
|
Cut-off
Date
|
:
|
November
26, 2007
|
First
Distribution Date
|
:
|
December
26, 2007
|
Initial
Notional Amount
|
||
of
this Certificate
|
||
(“Denomination”)
|
:
|
$[ ]
|
Initial
Notional Amount
|
||
of
all Certificates
|
||
of
this Class
|
:
|
$[ ]
|
CUSIP
|
:
|
[ ]
|
Interest
Rate
|
:
|
Interest
Only
|
Maturity
Date
|
:
|
CWALT, INC.
Resecuritization
Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-26R
Class
[ ]
evidencing
a percentage interest in the distributions allocable to the Certificates
of the
above-referenced Class with respect to a Trust Fund consisting primarily
of a
pool of conventional mortgage loans (the “Mortgage Loans”) secured by first
liens on one- to four-family residential properties
CWALT,
Inc., as Depositor
The
Notional Amount of this certificate at any time, may be less than the Notional
Amount as set forth herein. This Certificate does not evidence an
obligation of, or an interest in, and is not guaranteed by the Depositor,
the
Sellers, the Master Servicer or the Trustee referred to below or any of
their
respective affiliates. Neither this Certificate nor the Mortgage
Loans 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 (obtained by dividing the denomination of
this
Certificate by the aggregate Initial Notional Amount of all Certificates
of the
Class to which this Certificate belongs) in certain monthly distributions
with
respect to a Trust Fund consisting primarily of the Deposited Underlying
Certificates deposited by CWALT, Inc. (the “Depositor”). The Trust
Fund was created pursuant to a Trust Agreement dated as of the Cut-off
Date
specified above (the “Agreement”) among the Depositor, Deutsche Bank Securities
Inc., as underlying certificate
B-2
seller
(the “Underlying Certificate Seller”), and The Bank of New York, as trustee,
securities intermediary and bank (the “Trustee”). To the extent not
defined herein, the capitalized terms used herein have the meanings assigned
in
the Agreement. This Certificate is issued under and is subject to the
terms, provisions and conditions of the Agreement, to which Agreement the
Holder
of this Certificate by virtue of the acceptance hereof assents and by which
such
Holder is bound.
[Until
this certificate has been the subject of an ERISA-Qualifying Underwriting,
no
transfer of a Certificate of this Class shall be made unless the 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
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 Trustee, the Master Servicer or the Trust Fund, 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 Trustee to the effect that the purchase and
holding
of such Certificate will not result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction
under
Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, and will not subject
the
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
Trustee, the Master Servicer or the Trust Fund. When the transferee
delivers the Opinion of Counsel described above, such representation shall
be
deemed to have been made to the Trustee by the Transferee’s acceptance of a
Certificate of this Class and by a beneficial owner’s acceptance of its interest
in a Certificate of this Class. Notwithstanding anything else to the
contrary herein, until such certificate has been the subject of an
ERISA-Qualifying Underwriting, any purported transfer of a Certificate
of this
Class to, or a person investing assets 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 Trustee as described above shall
be void
and of no effect.]
Reference
is hereby made to the further provisions of this Certificate set forth
on the
reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the
same
effect as if set forth at this place.
This
Certificate shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Agreement or
be valid
for any purpose unless manually countersigned by an authorized signatory
of the
Trustee.
* * *
B-3
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trustee has caused this Certificate to be duly
executed.
Dated: December
___, 2007
THE
BANK
OF NEW YORK,
as
Trustee
By ________________________________
Countersigned:
By _______________________________
Authorized
Signatory of
THE
BANK
OF NEW YORK,
as
Trustee
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EXHIBIT
C
[FORM
OF
RESIDUAL 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”).
NEITHER
THIS CERTIFICATE NOR ANY INTEREST HEREIN MAY BE TRANSFERRED UNLESS THE
PROPOSED
TRANSFEREE DELIVERS TO THE TRUSTEE A TRANSFER AFFIDAVIT IN ACCORDANCE WITH
THE
PROVISIONS OF THE AGREEMENT REFERRED TO HEREIN.
[THIS
CERTIFICATE REPRESENTS THE “TAX MATTERS PERSON RESIDUAL INTEREST” ISSUED UNDER
THE POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT REFERRED TO BELOW AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED
TO ANY PERSON EXCEPT IN CONNECTION WITH THE ASSUMPTION BY THE TRANSFEREE
OF THE
DUTIES OF THE SERVICER UNDER SUCH AGREEMENT.]
NEITHER
THIS CERTIFICATE NOR ANY INTEREST HEREIN MAY BE TRANSFERRED UNLESS THE
TRANSFEREE DELIVERS TO THE TRUSTEE EITHER A REPRESENTATION LETTER TO THE
EFFECT
THAT SUCH TRANSFEREE IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN SUBJECT TO THE EMPLOYEE
RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED, OR A PLAN SUBJECT TO
SECTION
4975 OF THE CODE, OR A PERSON INVESTING ON BEHALF OF OR WITH PLAN ASSETS
OF SUCH
A PLAN, OR, IF THIS CERTIFICATE HAS BEEN SUBJECT TO AN ERISA-QUALIFYING
UNDERWRITING, THAT SUCH TRANSFEREE IS AN INSURANCE COMPANY WHICH IS PURCHASING
CERTIFICATES WITH FUNDS CONTAINED IN AN "INSURANCE COMPANY GENERAL ACCOUNTS"
AS
SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN SECTION V(e) OF PROHIBITED TRANSACTION CLASS EXEMPTION
95-60 ("PTCE 95-60"), AND THE PURCHASE AND HOLDING OF SUCH CERTIFICATES
ARE
COVERED UNDER SECTIONS I AND III OF PTCE 95-60 OR AN OPINION OF COUNSEL
IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE AGREEMENT REFERRED TO
HEREIN. 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 THE CODE WITHOUT THE OPINION OF COUNSEL SATISFACTORY
TO THE TRUSTEE AS DESCRIBED ABOVE SHALL BE VOID AND OF NO EFFECT.
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Certificate
No.
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Cut-off
Date
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November
26, 2007
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First
Distribution Date
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:
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December
26, 2007
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Initial
Certificate Balance
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of
this Certificate
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(“Denomination”)
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:
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$[ ]
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Initial
Certificate Balance
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of
all Certificates
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of
this Class
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:
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$[ ]
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CUSIP
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[ ]
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Interest
Rate
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:
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[ ]%
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Maturity
Date
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:
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January
25, 2037
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CWALT,
INC.
Resecuritization
Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-26R
Class
A-R
evidencing
a percentage interest in the distributions allocable to the Certificates
of the
above-referenced Class with respect to a Trust Fund consisting primarily
of the
Deposited Underlying Certificates.
CWALT,
Inc., as Depositor
Principal
in respect of this Certificate is distributable monthly as set forth
herein. Accordingly, the Certificate Balance at any time may be less
than the Certificate Balance as set forth herein. This Certificate
does not evidence an obligation of, or an interest in, and is not guaranteed
by
the Depositor, the Underlying Certificate Seller or the Trustee referred
to
below or any of their respective affiliates. Neither this Certificate
nor the Deposited Underlying Certificates 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 (obtained by dividing the denomination
of
this Certificate by the aggregate Initial Certificate Balance of all
Certificates of the Class to which this Certificate belongs) in certain
monthly
distributions with respect to a Trust Fund consisting
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primarily
of the Deposited Underlying Certificates deposited by CWALT, Inc. (the
“Depositor”). The Trust Fund was created pursuant to a Trust
Agreement dated as of the Cut-off Date specified above (the “Agreement”) among
the Depositor, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., as underlying certificate
seller
(the “Underlying Certificate Seller”), and The Bank of New York, as trustee,
securities intermediary and bank (the “Trustee”). To the extent not
defined herein, the capitalized terms used herein have the meanings assigned
in
the Agreement. This Certificate is issued under and is subject to the
terms, provisions and conditions of the Agreement, to which Agreement the
Holder
of this Certificate by virtue of the acceptance hereof assents and by which
such
Holder is bound.
Any
distribution of the proceeds of any remaining assets of the Trust Fund
will be
made only upon presentment and surrender of this Class A-R Certificate
at the
Corporate Trust Office or the office or agency maintained by the Trustee
in New
York, New York.
No
transfer of a Class A-R Certificate shall be made unless the 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
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 Trustee or the Depositor, (ii) if such certificate has been
the
subject of an ERISA-Qualifying Underwriting and the transferee is an insurance
company, a representation that the transferee is purchasing such Certificate
with funds contained in an “insurance company general account” (as such term is
defined in Section V(e) of Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 95-60
(“PTCE
95-60”)) and that the purchase and holding of such Certificate satisfy the
requirements for exemptive relief under Sections I and III of PTCE 95-60,
or
(iii) 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 Trustee and the Depositor 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 Trustee or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those
undertaken in the Agreement, which Opinion of Counsel shall not be an expense
of
the Trustee or the Depositor. Notwithstanding anything else to the
contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Class A-R 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 Trustee as described above shall be void and of no effect.
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Reference
is hereby made to the further provisions of this Certificate set forth
on the
reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the
same
effect as if set forth at this place.
This
Certificate shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Agreement or
be valid
for any purpose unless manually countersigned by an authorized signatory
of the
Trustee.
* * *
C-4
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trustee has caused this Certificate to be duly
executed.
Dated: December
___, 2007
THE
BANK
OF NEW YORK,
as
Trustee
By
______________________
Countersigned:
By ______________________________
Authorized
Signatory of
THE
BANK
OF NEW YORK,
as
Trustee
C-5
EXHIBIT
D
[FORM
OF
REVERSE OF CERTIFICATE]
CWALT,
INC.
Resecuritization
Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-26R
This
Certificate is one of a duly authorized issue of Certificates designated
as
CWALT, Inc. Resecuritization Pass-Through Certificates, of the Series specified
on the face hereof (herein collectively called the “Certificates”), and
representing a beneficial ownership interest in the Trust Fund created
by the
Agreement.
The
Certificates are limited in right of payment to certain distributions in
respect
of the Deposited Underlying Certificates, all as more specifically set
forth in
the Agreement. The Certificateholder, by its acceptance of this
Certificate, agrees that it will look solely to the funds on deposit in
the
Distribution Account for payment hereunder and that the Trustee is not
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, benefits,
obligations and duties evidenced thereby, and the rights, duties and immunities
of the Trustee.
Pursuant
to the terms of the Agreement, a distribution will be made on the 25th
day of
each month or, if such day is not a Business Day, the Business Day immediately
following (the “Distribution Date”), commencing on the first Distribution Date
specified on the face hereof, to the Person in whose name this Certificate
is
registered at the close of business on the applicable Record Date in an
amount
equal to the product of the Percentage Interest evidenced by this Certificate
and the amount required to be distributed to Holders of Certificates of
the
Class to which this Certificate belongs on such Distribution Date pursuant
to
the Agreement. The Record Date applicable to the first Distribution
Date is December __, 2007 and to each other Distribution Date is the last
Business Day of the month next preceding the month of such Distribution
Date.
Distributions
on this Certificate shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available
funds to the account of the Holder hereof at a bank or other entity having
appropriate facilities therefor, if such Certificateholder shall have so
notified the Trustee in writing at least five Business Days prior to the
related
Record Date and such Certificateholder shall satisfy the conditions to
receive
such form of payment set forth in the Agreement, or, if not, by check mailed
by
first class mail to the address of such Certificateholder appearing in
the
Certificate Register. The final distribution on each Certificate will
be made in like manner, but only upon presentment and surrender of such
Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office or such other location specified
in
the notice to Certificateholders of such final distribution.
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The
Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein provided, the amendment
thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Trustee
and
the rights of the Certificateholders under the Agreement at any time by
the
Depositor, the Underlying Certificate Seller and the Trustee with the consent
of
the Holders of Certificates affected by such amendment evidencing the requisite
Percentage Interest, as provided in the Agreement. Any such consent
by the Holder of this Certificate shall be conclusive and binding on such
Holder
and upon all future Holders of this Certificate and of any Certificate
issued
upon the transfer hereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu hereof whether
or
not notation of such consent is made upon this Certificate. The
Agreement also permits the amendment thereof, in certain limited circumstances,
without the consent of the Holders of any of the Certificates.
As
provided in the Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set
forth,
the transfer of this Certificate is registrable in the Certificate Register
of
the Trustee upon surrender of this Certificate for registration of transfer
at
the Corporate Trust Office or the office or agency maintained by the Trustee
in
New York, New York, accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in
form
satisfactory to the Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed
by the
holder hereof or such holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, and
thereupon one or more new Certificates of the same Class in authorized
denominations and evidencing the same aggregate Percentage Interest in
the Trust
Fund will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
The
Certificates are issuable only as registered Certificates without coupons
in
denominations specified in the Agreement. As provided in the
Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Certificates
are
exchangeable for new Certificates of the same Class in authorized denominations
and evidencing the same aggregate Percentage Interest, as requested by
the
Holder surrendering the same.
No
service charge will be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange,
but the Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax
or
other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
The
Depositor and the Trustee and any agent of the Depositor or the Trustee
may
treat the Person in whose name this Certificate is registered as the owner
hereof for all purposes, and neither the Depositor, the Trustee, nor any
such
agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.
The
obligations and responsibilities created by the Agreement will terminate
upon
the later of the maturity or other liquidation of the Deposited Underlying
Certificates or the disposition of all property in respect thereof and
the
distribution to Certificateholders of all amounts required to be distributed
pursuant to the Agreement. In no event, however, will the trust
created by the Agreement continue beyond the expiration of 21 years from
the
death of the last survivor of the descendants living at the date of the
Agreement of a certain person named in the Agreement.
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Any
term
used herein that is defined in the Agreement shall have the meaning assigned
in
the Agreement, and nothing herein shall be deemed inconsistent with that
meaning.
D-3
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 Securities Administrator 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,
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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.
D-4
STATE
OF
)
)
ss.:
COUNTY
OF )
On
the
_____day of ___________________, 20__ 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]
D-5
EXHIBIT
E
[FORM
OF]
TRANSFEROR’S AFFIDAVIT
_____________________
Date
CWALT,
Inc.
0000
Xxxx
Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: [ ]
The
Bank
of New York
000
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, 0X
Xxx
Xxxx,
Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention:
Resecuritization Group
CWALT,
Inc. Series
2007-26R
|
Re:
|
CWALT,
Inc.
|
Resecuritization
Mortgage
Certificates, Series 2007-26R
Ladies
and Gentlemen:
In
connection with our disposition of the Class A-R Certificate issued pursuant
to
the Trust Agreement dated as of November 26, 2007 among CWALT, Inc., as
depositor, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., as underlying certificate seller,
and
The Bank of New York, as trustee, we certify that to the extent we are
disposing
of a Class A-R Certificate, we have no knowledge the Transferee is not
a
Permitted Transferee.
Very
truly yours,
__________________________________
Print
Name of Transferor
By: ______________________________
Authorized
Officer
E-1
EXHIBIT
F
[FORM
OF]
TRANSFER AFFIDAVIT
CWALT,
Inc.
Resecuritization
Mortgage
Certificates, Series 2007-26R
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 A-R Certificate
(the
“Certificate”) issued pursuant to the Trust Agreement, (the “Agreement”) dated
as of November 26, 2007 among CWALT, Inc., as depositor (the “Depositor”),
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., as underlying certificate seller, and The
Bank of
New York, as 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, 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
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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.)
5 The
Transferee has reviewed the provisions of Section 4.02(d) of the Agreement
(attached hereto as Exhibit 2 and incorporated herein by reference) 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 4.02(d) 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 Trustee a certificate substantially in the form set forth as Exhibit
J 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
Certificate.
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 A-R 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
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historically
has paid its debts as they have come due and intends to pay its debts as
they
come due in the future.
12 Either
(i) the Transferee is not an employee benefit plan subject to Section 406
of
ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, nor a person acting on behalf of any
such
plan or using the assets of such plan to effect such acquisition, or, (ii)
if
the Class A-R Certificate has been subject to an ERISA-Qualifying underwriting,
the source of funds for the purchase of such Class A-R Certificate is an
“insurance company general account” within the meaning of Prohibited Transaction
Class Exemption 95-60 (PTCE 95-60”), 60 Fed. Reg. 35925 (July 12, 1995), and the
terms and conditions of Sections I and III of PTCE 95-60 are applicable
to the
acquisition and holding of such Class A-R Certificate.
13 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).
* * *
F-3
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the Transferee has caused this instrument to be executed
on its
behalf by its duly authorized officer, this ___ day of _______________,
20__.
_______________________________________
PRINT
NAME OF TRANSFEREE
By:
___________________________________
Name:
Title:
[Corporate
Seal]
ATTEST:
____________________________
[Assistant]
Secretary
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
My
Commission expires the
___
day
of ________________, 20__
F-4
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).
CWALT,
INC.
By: ________________________________ Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT
1
to
EXHIBIT F
“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
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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.
“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 (i) the United States, any State
or political subdivision thereof, or any agency or instrumentality of any
of the
foregoing, (ii) a foreign government, International Organization or any
agency
or instrumentality of either of the foregoing, (iii) 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
Class A-R Certificate, (iv) rural electric and telephone cooperatives described
in section 1381(a)(2)(C) of the Code, (v) an “electing large partnership” as
defined in section 775 of the Code, (vi) a Person that is not a citizen
or
resident of the United States, a corporation, partnership, or other entity
(treated as a corporation or a partnership for federal income tax purposes)
created or organized in or under the laws of the United States, any state
thereof or the District of Columbia, or an estate 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 authority to control
all
substantial decisions of the trustor unless such Person has furnished the
transferor and the Trustee with a duly completed Internal Revenue Service
Form
W-8ECI, and (vii) any other Person so designated by the Trustee based upon
an
Opinion of Counsel that the Transfer of an Ownership Interest in a Class
A-R
Certificate to such Person may cause any REMIC formed under the Agreement
to
fail to qualify as a REMIC at any time that any Certificates are
Outstanding. The terms “United States,” “State” and “International
Organization” shall have the meanings set forth 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.
“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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EXHIBIT
2
to
EXHIBIT F
Section
4.02(d)
of the
Agreement
(d) Each
Person who has or who acquires any Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate
shall be deemed by the acceptance or acquisition of such Ownership Interest
to
have agreed to be bound by the following provisions, and the rights of
each
Person acquiring any Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate are expressly
subject to the following provisions:
(1) Each
Person holding or acquiring any Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate
shall be a Permitted Transferee and shall promptly notify the Trustee of
any
change or impending change in its status as a Permitted Transferee.
(2) Except
in connection with (i) the registration of the Tax Matters Person Certificate
in
the name of the Trustee or (ii) any registration in the name of, or transfer
of
a Class A-R Certificate to, an affiliate of the Depositor (either directly
or
through a nominee) in connection with the initial issuance of the Certificates,
no Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate may be registered on the
Closing
Date or thereafter transferred, and the Trustee shall not register the
Transfer
of any Residual Certificate unless the Trustee shall have been furnished
with an
affidavit (a “Transfer Affidavit”) of the initial owner or the proposed
transferee in the form attached hereto as Exhibit F.
(3) Each
Person holding or acquiring any Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate
shall agree (A) to obtain a Transfer Affidavit from any other Person to
whom
such Person attempts to Transfer its Ownership Interest in a Residual
Certificate, (B) to obtain a Transfer Affidavit from any Person for whom
such
Person is acting as nominee, trustee or agent in connection with any Transfer
of
a Residual Certificate and (C) not to Transfer its Ownership Interest in
a
Residual Certificate or to cause the Transfer of an 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 or purported Transfer of any Ownership Interest in a Residual
Certificate in violation of the provisions of this Section 4.02(d) shall
be
absolutely null and void and shall vest no rights in the purported
Transferee. If any purported transferee shall become a Holder of a
Residual Certificate in violation of the provisions of this Section 4.02(d),
then the last preceding Permitted Transferee shall be restored to all rights
as
Holder thereof retroactive to the date of registration of Transfer of
such
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Residual
Certificate. The 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 Section 4.02(c) and this Section 4.02(d) or for making any
payments
due on such Certificate to the Holder thereof or taking any other action
with
respect to such Holder under the provisions of this Agreement so long as
the
Transfer was registered after receipt of the related Transfer Affidavit
and
Transferor Certificate. The 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 such
Residual Certificate at and after either such time. Any such payments
so recovered by the Trustee shall be paid and delivered by the Trustee
to the
last preceding Permitted Transferee of such Certificate.
(5) The
Depositor shall use its best efforts to make available, upon receipt of
written
request from the 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.
The
restrictions on Transfers of a Residual Certificate set forth in this Section
4.02(d) 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 Trustee of an Opinion of Counsel, which Opinion of Counsel
shall
not be an expense of the Trust Fund, the Trustee, the Underlying Certificate
Seller or the Depositor, to the effect that the elimination of such restrictions
will not cause any constituent REMIC of any REMIC formed hereunder 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 Fund, a Certificateholder or
another
Person. Each Person holding or acquiring any Ownership Interest in a
Residual Certificate hereby consents to any amendment of this Agreement
which,
based on an Opinion of Counsel furnished to the Trustee, is reasonably
necessary
(a) 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 and (b) to provide for a means to compel
the
Transfer of a Residual Certificate which is held by a Person that is not
a
Permitted Transferee to a Holder that is a Permitted Transferee.
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EXHIBIT
G
MONTHLY
STATEMENT
[On
file
with Trustee]
G-1
EXHIBIT
H
[FORM
OF]
PERFORMANCE CERTIFICATION
[On
file
with Trustee]
H-1
EXHIBIT
I
[FORM
OF]
SERVICING
CRITERIA TO BE ADDRESSED IN
ASSESSMENT
OF COMPLIANCE STATEMENT
The
assessment of compliance to be delivered by Trustee shall address, at a
minimum,
the criteria identified as below as “Applicable Servicing
Criteria”:
Servicing
Criteria
|
Applicable
Servicing
Criteria
|
|
Reference
|
Criteria
|
|
General
Servicing
Considerations
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||
1122(d)(1)(i)
|
Policies
and procedures are instituted to monitor any performance or other
triggers
and events of default in accordance with the transaction
agreements.
|
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1122(d)(1)(ii)
|
If
any material servicing activities are outsourced to third parties,
policies and procedures are instituted to monitor the third party’s
performance and compliance with such servicing activities.
|
|
1122(d)(1)(iii)
|
Any
requirements in the transaction agreements to maintain a back-up
servicer
for the mortgage loans are maintained.
|
|
1122(d)(1)(iv)
|
A
fidelity bond and errors and omissions policy is in effect on
the party
participating in the servicing function throughout the reporting
period in
the amount of coverage required by and otherwise in accordance
with the
terms of the transaction agreements.
|
|
Cash
Collection and
Administration
|
||
1122(d)(2)(i)
|
Payments
on mortgage loans are deposited into the appropriate custodial
bank
accounts and related bank clearing accounts no more than two
business days
following receipt, or such other number of days specified in
the
transaction agreements.
|
|
1122(d)(2)(ii)
|
Disbursements
made via wire transfer on behalf of an obligor or to an investor
are made
only by authorized personnel.
|
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Servicing
Criteria
|
Applicable
Servicing
Criteria
|
|
Reference
|
Criteria
|
|
1122(d)(2)(iii)
|
Advances
of funds or guarantees regarding collections, cash flows or distributions,
and any interest or other fees charged for such advances, are
made,
reviewed and approved as specified in the transaction
agreements.
|
|
1122(d)(2)(iv)
|
The
related accounts for the transaction, such as cash reserve accounts
or
accounts established as a form of overcollateralization, are
separately
maintained (e.g., with respect to commingling of cash) as set
forth in the
transaction agreements.
|
|
1122(d)(2)(v)
|
Each
custodial account is maintained at a federally insured depository
institution as set forth in the transaction agreements. For purposes
of
this criterion, “federally insured depository institution” with respect to
a foreign financial institution means a foreign financial institution
that
meets the requirements of Rule 13k-1(b)(1) of the Securities
Exchange
Act.
|
|
1122(d)(2)(vi)
|
Unissued
checks are safeguarded so as to prevent unauthorized
access.
|
|
1122(d)(2)(vii)
|
Reconciliations
are prepared on a monthly basis for all asset-backed securities
related
bank accounts, including custodial accounts and related bank
clearing
accounts. These reconciliations are (A) mathematically accurate;
(B)
prepared within 30 calendar days after the bank statement cutoff
date, or
such other number of days specified in the transaction agreements;
(C)
reviewed and approved by someone other than the person who prepared
the
reconciliation; and (D) contain explanations for reconciling
items. These
reconciling items are resolved within 90 calendar days of their
original
identification, or such other number of days specified in the
transaction
agreements.
|
|
Investor
Remittances and
Reporting
|
||
1122(d)(3)(i)
|
Reports
to investors, including those to be filed with the Commission,
are
maintained in accordance with the transaction agreements
and
|
I-2
Servicing
Criteria
|
Applicable
Servicing
Criteria
|
|
Reference
|
Criteria
|
|
|
applicable
Commission requirements. Specifically, such reports (A) are
prepared in
accordance with timeframes and other terms set forth in the
transaction
agreements; (B) provide information calculated in accordance
with the
terms specified in the transaction agreements; (C) are filed
with the
Commission as required by its rules and regulations; and (D)
agree with
investors’ or the trustee’s records as to the total unpaid principal
balance and number of mortgage loans serviced by the
Servicer.
|
|
1122(d)(3)(ii)
|
Amounts
due to investors are allocated and remitted in accordance with
timeframes,
distribution priority and other terms set forth in the transaction
agreements.
|
|
1122(d)(3)(iii)
|
Disbursements
made to an investor are posted within two business days to
the Servicer’s
investor records, or such other number of days specified in
the
transaction agreements.
|
|
1122(d)(3)(iv)
|
Amounts
remitted to investors per the investor reports agree with cancelled
checks, or other form of payment, or custodial bank
statements.
|
|
Pool
Asset
Administration
|
||
1122(d)(4)(i)
|
Collateral
or security on mortgage loans is maintained as required by
the transaction
agreements or related mortgage loan documents.
|
|
1122(d)(4)(ii)
|
Mortgage
loan and related documents are safeguarded as required by the
transaction
agreements.
|
|
1122(d)(4)(iii)
|
Any
additions, removals or substitutions to the asset pool are
made, reviewed
and approved in accordance with any conditions or requirements
in the
transaction agreements.
|
|
1122(d)(4)(iv)
|
Payments
on mortgage loans, including any payoffs, made in accordance
with the
related mortgage loan documents are posted to the Servicer’s obligor
records maintained no more than two business days after receipt,
or
such
|
I-3
Servicing
Criteria
|
Applicable
Servicing
Criteria
|
|
Reference
|
Criteria
|
|
|
other
number of days specified in the transaction agreements, and
allocated to
principal, interest or other items (e.g., escrow) in accordance
with the
related mortgage loan documents.
|
|
1122(d)(4)(v)
|
The
Servicer’s records regarding the mortgage loans agree with the Servicer’s
records with respect to an obligor’s unpaid principal
balance.
|
|
1122(d)(4)(vi)
|
Changes
with respect to the terms or status of an obligor's mortgage
loans (e.g.,
loan modifications or re-agings) are made, reviewed and approved
by
authorized personnel in accordance with the transaction agreements
and
related pool asset documents.
|
|
1122(d)(4)(vii)
|
Loss
mitigation or recovery actions (e.g., forbearance plans, modifications
and
deeds in lieu of foreclosure, foreclosures and repossessions,
as
applicable) are initiated, conducted and concluded in accordance
with the
timeframes or other requirements established by the transaction
agreements.
|
|
1122(d)(4)(viii)
|
Records
documenting collection efforts are maintained during the period
a mortgage
loan is delinquent in accordance with the transaction agreements.
Such
records are maintained on at least a monthly basis, or such
other period
specified in the transaction agreements, and describe the entity’s
activities in monitoring delinquent mortgage loans including,
for example,
phone calls, letters and payment rescheduling plans in cases
where
delinquency is deemed temporary (e.g., illness or
unemployment).
|
|
1122(d)(4)(ix)
|
Adjustments
to interest rates or rates of return for mortgage loans with
variable
rates are computed based on the related mortgage loan
documents.
|
1122(d)(4)(x)
|
Regarding
any funds held in trust for an obligor (such as escrow accounts):
(A) such
funds are analyzed, in accordance with the obligor’s mortgage loan
documents, on at least an annual basis, or such other period
specified in
the
|
I-4
Servicing
Criteria
|
Applicable
Servicing
Criteria
|
|
Reference
|
Criteria
|
|
|
transaction
agreements; (B) interest on such funds is paid, or credited,
to obligors
in accordance with applicable mortgage loan documents and state
laws; and
(C) such funds are returned to the obligor within 30 calendar
days of full
repayment of the related mortgage loans, or such other number
of days
specified in the transaction agreements.
|
|
1122(d)(4)(xi)
|
Payments
made on behalf of an obligor (such as tax or insurance payments)
are made
on or before the related penalty or expiration dates, as indicated
on the
appropriate bills or notices for such payments, provided that
such support
has been received by the servicer at least 30 calendar days
prior to these
dates, or such other number of days specified in the transaction
agreements.
|
|
1122(d)(4)(xii)
|
Any
late payment penalties in connection with any payment to be
made on behalf
of an obligor are paid from the servicer’s funds and not charged to the
obligor, unless the late payment was due to the obligor’s error or
omission.
|
|
1122(d)(4)(xiii)
|
Disbursements
made on behalf of an obligor are posted within two business
days to the
obligor’s records maintained by the servicer, or such other number
of days
specified in the transaction agreements.
|
|
1122(d)(4)(xiv)
|
Delinquencies,
charge-offs and uncollectible accounts are recognized and recorded
in
accordance with the transaction agreements.
|
|
1122(d)(4)(xv)
|
Any
external enhancement or other support, identified in Item 1114(a)(1)
through (3) or Item 1115 of Regulation AB, is maintained as
set forth in
the transaction agreements.
|
|
I-5
[NAME
OF
TRUSTEE] [NAME OF CO-TRUSTEE]
Date: _________________________
By: ________________________________
Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT
J
[FORM
OF]
LIST OF ITEM 1119 PARTIES
ALTERNATIVE
LOAN TRUST RESECURITIZATION 200_-__
RESECURITIZATION
PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES,
Series
200_-__
[Date]
Party
|
Contact
Information
|
J-1
EXHIBIT
K
FORM
OF
XXXXXXXX-XXXXX CERTIFICATION
I,
[ ],
certify that:
1. I
have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K, and all reports on Form
8-K
containing distribution and servicing reports filed in respect of periods
included in the year covered by this annual report, of CWALT, Inc., Alternative
Loan Trust Resecuritization 2007-26R;
2. Based
on my knowledge, the information in these reports, taken as a whole, does
not
contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material
fact
necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under
which
such statements were made, not misleading as of the last day of the period
covered by this annual report;
3. Based
on my knowledge, the distribution or servicing information required to
be
provided to the trustee by the master servicer under the pooling and servicing,
or similar, agreement, for inclusion in these reports is included in these
reports;
4. Based
on my knowledge and upon the annual compliance statement included in the
report
and required to be delivered to the trustee in accordance with the terms
of the
pooling and servicing, or similar, agreement, and except as disclosed in
the
reports, the master servicer has fulfilled its obligations under the servicing
agreement; and
5. The
reports disclose all significant deficiencies relating to the master servicer's
compliance with the minimum servicing standards based upon the report provided
by an independent public accountant, after conducting a review in compliance
with the Uniform Single Attestation Program for Mortgage Bankers or similar
procedure, as set forth in the pooling and servicing, or similar, agreement,
that is included in these reports.
In
giving
the certifications above, I have reasonably relied on information provided
to me
by the following unaffiliated parties: The Bank of New York, as
Trustee.
Date:
March [ ], 2008
/s/
[ ]
[Name]
[Title]
K-1
EXHIBIT
L
[FORM
OF]
ITEM 1123 CERTIFICATION
THE
BANK
OF NEW YORK
OFFICERS’
CERTIFICATE
ANNUAL
STATEMENT OF THE TRUSTEE
CWALT,
INC.
ALTERNATIVE
LOAN TRUST RESECURITIZATION 200_-___R,
RESECURITIZATION
PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 200_-__R
The
undersigned does hereby certify that the undersigned is an officer of The
Bank
of New York (the “Trustee”), and does hereby further certify pursuant to Section
3.11 of the Trust Agreement for the above-captioned Series (the “Agreement”)
that:
(i) A
review of the activities of the Trustee during the preceding calendar year
and
of the performance of the Trustee under the Agreement has been made under
my
supervision; and
(ii) To
the best of my knowledge, based on such review, the Trustee has fulfilled
all of
its obligations under the Agreement in all material respects throughout
such
calendar year.
____________________ Dated:
______________
Name:
Title:
L-1