EXHIBIT 10.1
dated as of March 27, 2008
among
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Administrative Agent and a Buyer,
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Syndication Agent and a Buyer,
the other Buyers party hereto
and
DHI MORTGAGE COMPANY, LTD., as Seller
X.X. XXXXXX SECURITIES INC.
AS LEAD ARRANGER AND SOLE BOOKRUNNER
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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MASTER REPURCHASE AGREEMENT |
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APPLICABILITY AND DEFINED TERMS |
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1.1. |
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Applicability |
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1.2. |
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Defined Terms |
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1.3. |
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Other Definitional Provisions |
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THE BUYERS’ COMMITMENTS |
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2.1. |
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The Buyers’ Commitments to Purchase |
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2.2. |
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Expiration or Termination of the Commitments |
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2.3. |
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Request for Increase in Maximum Aggregate Commitment |
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2.4. |
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Swing Line Commitment |
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2.5. |
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Swing Line Transactions |
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2.6. |
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Optional Reduction or Termination of Buyers’ Commitments |
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INITIATION; REQUEST/CONFIRMATION; TERMINATION |
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3.1. |
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Seller Request; Administrative Agent Confirmation |
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3.2. |
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Syndication of Purchases |
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3.3. |
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Request/Confirmation |
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3.4. |
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Transaction Termination; Purchase Price Decrease |
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3.5. |
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Place for Payments of Repurchase Prices |
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3.6. |
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If Repurchase Price Not Paid |
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3.7. |
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Transfer of Existing Mortgage Loan Portfolio |
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3.8. |
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Closing of Portfolio Sale |
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3.9. |
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Delivery of Additional Mortgage Loans |
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3.10. |
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Application of Repurchase Price Payments |
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TRANSACTION LIMITS AND SUBLIMITS |
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4.1. |
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Transaction Limits |
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4.2. |
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Transaction Sublimits |
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PRICE DIFFERENTIAL |
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5.1. |
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Pricing Rate |
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5.2. |
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Seller’s Election of Pricing Rate |
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5.3. |
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Seller’s Re-election of the Pricing Rate |
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5.4. |
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Balances Deficiency Fees |
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5.5. |
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Pricing Rate for Past Due Purchased Loans |
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5.6. |
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Price Differential Payment Due Dates |
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MARGIN MAINTENANCE |
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6.1. |
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Margin Deficit |
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6.2. |
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Margin Call Deadline |
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6.3. |
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Application of Cash |
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6.4. |
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Increased Cost |
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6.5. |
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Capital Adequacy |
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6.6. |
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Administrative Agent’s Report |
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6.7. |
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Provisions Relating to LIBOR Rate Tranches and Balance Funded Rate Tranches |
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TAXES |
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7.1. |
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Payments to be Free of Taxes; Withholding |
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7.2. |
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Other Taxes |
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7.3. |
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Taxes Indemnity |
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7.4. |
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Receipt |
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7.5. |
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Non-Exempt Buyer |
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7.6. |
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If Buyer Fails to Provide Form |
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7.7. |
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Survival |
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INCOME AND ESCROW PAYMENTS; CONTROL |
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FACILITY FEE; ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT’S FEE |
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9.1. |
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Facility Fee |
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9.2. |
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Administrative Agent’s Fee |
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9.3. |
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Arranger’s Fee |
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SECURITY INTEREST |
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10.1. |
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Intent of the Parties |
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Proceeds. all proceeds of all the foregoing |
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SUBSTITUTION |
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11.1. |
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Seller May Substitute Other Mortgage Loans with Notice to and Approval of Administrative Agent |
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11.2. |
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Payment to Accompany Substitution |
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PAYMENT AND TRANSFER |
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12.1. |
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Immediately Available Funds; Notice to Custodian |
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12.2. |
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Payments to the Administrative Agent |
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12.3. |
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If Payment Not Made When Due |
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12.4. |
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Payments Valid and Effective |
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12.5. |
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Pro Rata Distribution of Payments |
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SEGREGATION OF DOCUMENTS RELATING TO PURCHASED LOANS |
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CONDITIONS PRECEDENT |
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14.1. |
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Initial Purchase |
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14.2. |
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Each Purchase |
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REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND COVENANTS |
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15.1. |
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Buyers, Administrative Agent and Seller Representations |
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15.2. |
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Additional Seller Representations |
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15.3. |
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Special Representations Relating to the Purchased Loans |
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15.4. |
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Survival |
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AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS |
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16.1. |
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Weekly Market Analysis Report |
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16.2. |
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Office of Foreign Assets Control and USA Patriot Act |
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16.3. |
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Financial Statements |
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16.4. |
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Financial Statements Will Be Accurate |
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16.5. |
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Other Reports |
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16.6. |
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Maintain Existence and Statuses; Conduct of Business |
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16.7. |
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Compliance with Applicable Laws |
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16.8. |
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Inspection of Properties and Books; Protection of Seller’s Proprietary Information; Buyers’ Due Diligence of Seller |
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16.9. |
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Privacy of Customer Information |
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16.10. |
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Notice of Suits, Etc. and Notice |
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16.11. |
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Payment of Taxes, Etc. |
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16.12. |
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Insurance; fidelity bond |
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16.13. |
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Maintain Lien on Mortgaged Premises |
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16.14. |
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Subordination of Certain Indebtedness |
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16.15. |
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Certain Debt to Remain Unsecured |
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16.16. |
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Promptly Correct Escrow Imbalances |
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16.17. |
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MERS Covenants |
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16.18. |
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Special Affirmative Covenants Concerning Purchased Loans |
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16.19. |
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Coordination with Other Lenders/Repo Purchasers and Their Custodians |
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16.20. |
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Hedge Investments in Mortgage Loans |
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NEGATIVE COVENANTS |
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17.1. |
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No Merger |
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17.2. |
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Limitation on GAAP Indebtedness and Contingent Indebtedness |
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17.3. |
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Business |
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17.4. |
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Liquidations, Dispositions of Substantial Assets |
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17.5. |
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Loans, Advances, and Investments |
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77 |
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17.6. |
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Use of Proceeds |
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78 |
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17.7. |
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Transactions with Affiliates |
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17.8. |
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Liens |
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17.9. |
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ERISA Plans |
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78 |
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17.10. |
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Change of Principal Office; Fiscal Year |
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78 |
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17.11. |
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Distributions |
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78 |
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17.12. |
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Tangible Net Worth |
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78 |
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17.13. |
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Tangible Net Worth Ratio |
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78 |
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17.14. |
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Net Income |
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78 |
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17.15. |
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Liquidity |
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17.16. |
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Special Negative Covenants Concerning Purchased Loans |
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17.17. |
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No Changes in Accounting Practices |
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EVENTS OF DEFAULT; EVENT OF TERMINATION |
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18.1. |
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Events of Default |
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18.2. |
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Transaction Termination |
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18.3. |
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Termination by the Administrative Agent |
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18.4. |
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Remedies |
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18.5. |
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Liability for Expenses and Damages |
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18.6. |
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Liability for Interest |
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18.7. |
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Other Rights |
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18.8. |
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Exercise of Remedies |
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18.9. |
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Seller’s Repurchase Rights |
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18.10. |
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Sale of Purchased Loans |
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SERVICING OF THE PURCHASED LOANS |
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19.1. |
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Servicing Released Basis |
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19.2. |
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Servicing and Subservicing |
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19.3. |
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Escrow Payments |
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19.4. |
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Escrow and Income after Event of Default |
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19.5. |
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Servicing Records |
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19.6. |
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Subservicer Instruction Letter |
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19.7. |
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Termination of Servicing |
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19.8. |
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Notice from Seller |
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19.9. |
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Seller Remains Liable |
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19.10. |
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Backup Servicer |
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19.11. |
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Successor Servicer |
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86 |
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PAYMENT OF EXPENSES; INDEMNITY |
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87 |
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20.1. |
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Expenses |
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87 |
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20.2. |
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Indemnity |
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88 |
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SINGLE AGREEMENT |
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88 |
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RELATIONSHIPS AMONG THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND THE BUYERS |
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22.1. |
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Administrative Agent’s Duties |
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88 |
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22.2. |
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Limitation on Duty to Disclose |
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22.3. |
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Actions Requiring All Buyers’ Consent |
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89 |
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22.4. |
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Actions Requiring Required Buyers’ Consent |
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22.5. |
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Administrative Agent’s Discretionary Actions |
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91 |
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22.6. |
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Buyers’ Cooperation |
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91 |
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22.7. |
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Buyers’ Sharing Arrangement |
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91 |
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22.8. |
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Buyers’ Acknowledgment |
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92 |
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22.9. |
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Administrative Agent and Syndication Agent Market Value Determinations |
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92 |
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22.10. |
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Administrative Agent’s Representations to Buyers |
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93 |
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22.11. |
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Administrative Agent’s Duty of Care, Express Negligence Waiver and Release |
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93 |
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22.12. |
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Syndication Agent’s Duty of Care; Express Negligence Waiver and Release; merger |
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94 |
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22.13. |
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Calculations of Shares of Principal and Other Sums |
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94 |
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22.14. |
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Resignation or Removal of the Administrative Agent |
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22.15. |
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Effective Date of Resignation of the Administrative Agent |
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22.16. |
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Successor Administrative Agent |
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22.17. |
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Merger of the Administrative Agent |
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22.18. |
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Participation; Assignment |
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22.19. |
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The Administrative Agent and the Buyers are the only Beneficiaries of this Section |
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NOTICES AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS |
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MISCELLANEOUS |
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100 |
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24.1. |
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Further Assurances |
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100 |
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24.2. |
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Administrative Agent as Attorney in Fact |
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100 |
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24.3. |
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Wires to Seller |
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100 |
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24.4. |
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Wires to Administrative Agent |
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101 |
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24.5. |
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Receipt; Available Funds |
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101 |
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ENTIRE AGREEMENT; SEVERABILITY |
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101 |
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NON-ASSIGNABILITY; TERMINATION |
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101 |
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26.1. |
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Limited Assignment |
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101 |
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26.2. |
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Remedies Exception |
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101 |
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26.3. |
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Agreement Termination |
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101 |
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COUNTERPARTS |
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102 |
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GOVERNING LAW, JURISDICTION AND VENUE |
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102 |
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WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL |
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102 |
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RELATIONSHIP OF THE PARTIES |
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103 |
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NO WAIVERS, ETC |
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103 |
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32 |
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USE OF EMPLOYEE PLAN ASSETS |
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104 |
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32.1. |
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Prohibited Transactions |
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104 |
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32.2. |
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Audited Financial Statements Required |
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104 |
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32.3. |
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Representations |
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104 |
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33 |
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INTENT |
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104 |
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33.1. |
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Transactions are Repurchase Agreements and Securities Contracts |
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104 |
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33.2. |
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Contractual Rights, Etc. |
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105 |
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33.3. |
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FDIA |
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105 |
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33.4. |
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Master Netting Agreement |
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Exhibit A |
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Exhibit B |
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Opinions Required for Opinion of Counsel to Seller |
Exhibit C |
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Form of Officer’s Certificate with Computations to Show Compliance or Non-Compliance with Certain Financial Covenants |
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List of Restricted Subsidiaries of the Seller as of the Effective Date |
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XXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX AGREEMENT
THIS
MASTER REPURCHASE AGREEMENT is made and entered into as of March 27, 2008, between and
among DHI Mortgage Company, Ltd., a Texas limited partnership (the “Seller”), U.S. Bank National
Association, as Administrative Agent and representative of itself as a Buyer and the other Buyers
(the “Administrative Agent” and sometimes “U.S. Bank”), JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association,
as Syndication Agent and as a Buyer (as a Buyer, sometimes “JPM”, and in its capacity as
Syndication Agent, “Syndication Agent”), and the other Buyers, as defined in Section 1.2.
1 Applicability and Defined Terms.
1.1. Applicability. From time to time the parties hereto may enter into transactions in which
Seller agrees to transfer to Administrative Agent on behalf of the Buyers, Eligible Loans on a
service released basis against the transfer of funds by Buyers, with a simultaneous agreement by
the Buyers to transfer to Seller such Eligible Loans at a date certain or on demand in the event of
termination pursuant to Section 18.2 hereof, or if no demand is sooner made, on the
Termination Date, against the transfer of funds by Seller. Each such transaction shall be referred
to herein as a “Transaction” and shall be governed by this Agreement, as hereinafter defined.
U.S. Bank has also agreed to provide a separate revolving swing line repurchase facility to
initially and temporarily purchase Eligible Loans pending their purchase by all of the Buyers
pursuant to this Agreement.
The parties hereby specifically declare that it is their intention that this
Master Repurchase
Agreement (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the
“Agreement”, which term includes the preamble above) and the purchases of Eligible Loans made
pursuant to it (under both its regular and swing line provisions) are to be treated as repurchase
transactions under the Title 11 of the United States Code, as amended (the “Bankruptcy Code”),
including all rights that accrue to Buyers by virtue of sections 559, 561 and 562 of the Bankruptcy
Code. This Agreement also contains lien provisions with respect to the Purchased Loans so that if,
contrary to the intent of the parties, any court of competent jurisdiction characterizes any
Transaction as a financing, rather than a purchase, under applicable law, including the applicable
provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, the Administrative Agent is deemed to have a first priority
perfected security interest in and to the Purchased Loans to secure the payment and performance of
all of the Seller’s Obligations under this Agreement.
The Buyers’ agreement to establish and continue the revolving repurchase facilities, and U.S.
Bank’s agreement to establish and continue such revolving swing line repurchase facility, are each
made upon and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. If there is any conflict or
inconsistency between any of the terms or provisions of this Agreement and any of
the other Repurchase Documents, this Agreement shall govern and control. If there is any
conflict between any provision of this Agreement and any later supplement, amendment, restatement
or replacement of it, then the latter shall govern and control.
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1.2.
Defined Terms. Except where otherwise specifically stated, capitalized terms used in
this Agreement and the other Repurchase Documents have the meanings assigned to them below or
elsewhere in this Agreement.
“Accepted Servicing Practices” means, with respect to any Mortgage Loan, (i) those mortgage
loan servicing standards and procedures in accordance with all applicable state, local and federal
laws, rules and regulations and (ii)(y) the mortgage loan servicing standards and procedures
prescribed by Xxxxxx Xxx and Xxxxxxx Mac, in each case as set forth in the Xxxxxx Mae Servicing
Guide or Xxxxxxx Mac Servicing Guide, as applicable, and in the directives or applicable
publications of such agency, as such may be amended or supplemented from time to time, or (z) with
respect to any Mortgage Loans and any matters or circumstances as to which no such standard or
procedure applies, the servicing standards, procedures and practices Seller uses with respect to
its own assets as of the date of this Agreement, subject to reasonable changes.
“Additional Purchased Loans” means Eligible Loans transferred by Seller to Buyers pursuant to,
and as defined in, Section 6.1.
Affiliate” means and includes, with respect to a specified Person, any other Person:
(a) that directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries Controls, is
Controlled by or is under common Control with the specified Person (in this definition only,
the term “Control” means having the power to set or direct management policies, directly or
indirectly);
(b) that is a director, trustee, partner, member or executive officer of the specified
Person or serves in a similar capacity in respect of the specified Person;
(c) of which the specified Person is a director, trustee, partner, member or executive
officer or with respect to which the specified Person serves in a similar capacity and over
whom the specified Person, either alone or together with one or more other Persons similarly
situated, has Control;
(d) that, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, is the beneficial
owner of ten percent (10%) or more of any class of equity securities — which does not
include any MBS — of the specified Person; or
(e) of which the specified Person is directly or indirectly the owner of ten percent
(10%) or more of any class of equity securities of the specified Person.
“Agency” means Xxxxxx Mae, Xxxxxx Xxx or Xxxxxxx Mac.
“Agency-eligible Forty Year Loans” means fully documented amortizing Conforming Mortgage Loans
which have original terms to stated maturity greater than thirty (30) year and up to forty (40)
years, in an original principal amount not to exceed $1,000,000 and are eligible for purchase by an
Agency.
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“Agency-eligible Forty Year Loans Sublimit” is defined in the table in Section 4.2(c).
“Agency MBS” means MBS issued or guaranteed as to timely payment of principal and interest by
Xxxxxx Mae, Xxxxxx Xxx or Xxxxxxx Mac.
“Agency-eligible Non-owner Occupied Loan” means a Conforming Mortgage Loan whose Mortgaged
Premises are not occupied by one of the relevant Customers as either his or her primary or
secondary residence.
“Agency-eligible Non-Owner Occupied Loans Sublimit” is defined in the table in Section 4.2.
“Administrative Agent” is defined above.
“Administrative Agent’s Fee” is defined in Section 9.2.
“Aggregate Outstanding Purchase Price” means as of any Determination Date, an amount equal to
the sum of the Purchase Prices for all Purchased Loans included in all Open Transactions.
“Agreement” is defined in the Recitals.
“Alt-A Agency Loan” means a first Lien Mortgage Loan with a minimum FICO score of 660, a
confirmed takeout commitment from an Agency or that fully conforms to all underwriting, maximum
loan amount and other guidelines of Xxxxxx Mae or Xxxxxxx Mac.
“Alt-A Non-Agency Loan” means a first Lien Mortgage Loan with a minimum FICO score of 660, a
maximum initial principal balance not to exceed $650,000 and that is in all respects eligible for
purchase by two Approved Investors and is not a Conforming Mortgage Loan.
“Appraisal” means an appraisal by a licensed appraiser selected in accordance with Agency
guidelines and not identified to the Seller as an unacceptable appraiser by an Agency, and who is
recognized and experienced in estimating the value of property of that same type in the community
where it is located, and who, unless approved by the Administrative Agent on a case-by-case basis,
is not a member, manager, director, officer or employee of the Seller or any Affiliate of the
Seller, or related as a parent, sibling, child or first cousin to any of the Seller’s or any such
Affiliate’s respective directors or officers or any of their spouses, a signed copy of the written
report of which appraisal is in the possession of the Seller or the applicable Servicer.
“Approved Investor” means Xxxxxx Mae, Xxxxxx Xxx, Xxxxxxx Mac and any of the Persons listed on
Schedule Al, as it may be supplemented or amended from time to time by agreement of the Seller and
the Administrative Agent provided that, the Administrative Agent and the
Syndication Agent must approve any Person to be added to Schedule A1 as an Approved Investor for
Mortgage Loans that are not Conforming Mortgage Loans and which Person does not have a rating of at
least A-1 or the equivalent thereof by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group and P-1 or the equivalent
thereof by Xxxxx’x Investors Services, Inc.; provided further, that if the
Administrative Agent shall give written notice to the Seller of the Administrative Agent’s and, as
applicable, the Syndication Agent’s reasonable disapproval of any Approved Investor(s) named in the
notice, the Approved Investor(s) so named shall no longer be (an) Approved Investor(s) from and
after the time when the Administrative Agent sends that notice to the Seller.
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“Arranger’s Fees” as defined in Section 9.3.
“Authorized Seller Representative” means a representative of the Seller duly designated by all
requisite corporate action to execute any certificate, schedule or other document contemplated or
required by this Agreement or the Custody Agreement on behalf of the Seller and as its act and
deed. A list of Authorized Seller Representatives current as of the Effective Date is attached as
Schedule AR. The Seller will provide an updated list of Authorized Seller Representatives
to the Administrative Agent and the Custodian promptly following each addition to or subtraction
from such list, and the Administrative Agent, the Buyers and the Custodian shall be entitled to
rely on each such list until such an updated list is received by the Administrative Agent and the
Custodian.
“Backup Servicer” means U.S. Bank Home Mortgage, Inc. or any other Person designated by
Administrative Agent and Syndication Agent, in their sole discretion, to act as a backup servicer
of the Purchased Loans in accordance with Section 19.10.
“Balance Calculation Period” means each calendar month.
“Balance Funded Amount” means with respect to any Buyer for any Balance Calculation Period,
the average of the Qualifying Balances of such Buyer for such Balance Calculation Period. As used
in this paragraph, “Qualifying Balances” shall mean, with respect to any Buyer, for any day
the lesser of (a) the amount of such Buyer’s outstanding Purchase Price on Open Transactions on
such day, and (b) the sum of the collected balances in all identified non-interest bearing accounts
of the Seller maintained with such Buyer less (i) amounts necessary to satisfy reserve and deposit
insurance requirements and (ii) amounts required to compensate such Buyer for services rendered in
accordance with such Buyer’s system of charges for services to similar accounts.
“Balance Funded Rate” means a per annum rate equal to the LIBOR Margin plus 0.20%.
“Balance Funded Rate Tranche” means a portion of the outstanding Purchase Price on Open
Transactions on which the Pricing Rate is determined by reference to the Balance Funded Rate for
the applicable type of Eligible Loan.
“Balances Deficiency” as defined in Section 5.4.
“Balances Deficiency Fee” as defined in Section 5.4.
“Balances Surplus” as defined in Section 5.4.
“Bankruptcy Code” is defined in the Recitals.
“Basic Papers” means all of the Loan Papers that must be delivered to the Custodian (in the
case of Dry Loans, prior to the related Purchase Date and, in the case of Wet Loans, on or before
the seventh (7th) Business Day after the related Purchase Date) in order for any particular
Purchased Loan to continue to have Market Value. Schedule BP lists the Basic Papers.
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“Broker’s Price Opinion” means the written opinion of the value of a tract or parcel of
Single-family residential real property securing a Mortgage Loan, issued by a real estate broker
duly licensed as such by the jurisdiction in which the subject property is located that is
reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and that is not an Affiliate of the Seller or a
director, member, manager, officer or employee of the Seller or any of its Affiliates, selected
reasonably and in good faith by the Seller.
“Business Day” means any day when both (1) the Administrative Agent’s main branch in
Minneapolis, Minnesota is open for regular commercial banking business and (2) federal funds wire
transfers can be made.
“Buyer” means each of U.S. Bank, JPM and such other Persons, if any, as from time to time with
the consent of the other parties to this Agreement shall be a party to this agreement as a buyer.
Persons who are currently Buyers on any day shall be listed as Buyers in Schedule BC in
effect for that day.
“Buyer Affiliate” means (a) with respect to any Buyer, (i) an Affiliate of such Buyer or
(ii) any entity (whether a corporation, partnership, trust or otherwise) that is engaged in making,
purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in securities and mortgage reverse repurchase
agreements, bank loans and similar financial arrangements in the ordinary course of its business
and is administered or managed by such Buyer or an Affiliate of such Buyer and (b) with respect to
any Buyer that is a fund which invests in securities and mortgage reverse repurchase agreements,
bank loans and similar financial arrangements, any other fund that invests in securities and
mortgage reverse repurchase agreements, bank loans and similar financial arrangements and is
managed by the same investment advisor as such Buyer or by an Affiliate of such investment advisor.
“Buyers’ Margin Percentage” means:
(i) for all Purchased Loans except Second Lien Loans, HELOCs, and Alt-A Non-Agency
Loans, ninety-five percent (95%);
(ii) for Second Lien Loans and HELOCs ninety percent (90%); and
(iii) for Alt-A Non-Agency Loans, ninety-four percent (94%),
provided, however, that Buyer’s Margin Percentage will decrease by five
(5) percentage points for each 15 day period a Purchased Loan remains part of an Open
Transaction, beginning with the 60th day after the Purchase Date for such
Purchased Loan. For purposes of clarity the following example applies: A Conforming
Mortgage Loan with an initial Buyers’ Margin Percentage of 95% will on the 60th
day, have a reduced Buyer’s Margin Percentage of 90% and on the 75th day will
have a reduced Buyer’s Margin Percentage of 85%, and so on until it is no longer an Eligible
Loan; and provided further, that if a Purchased Mortgage Loan qualifies for
more than one Buyer’s Margin Percentage, the lowest Buyer’s Margin Percentage shall apply.
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“Capitalized Servicing Rights” means for any Person, all rights to service Mortgage Loans
which would be capitalized under GAAP (regardless of whether such rights result from asset
securitizations, whole loan sales or originations of Mortgage Loans).
“Cash Equivalents” means and includes, on any day:
(i) any evidence of debt issued by the United States government or any agency thereof,
or guaranteed as to the timely payment of principal and interest by the United States
government, and maturing ninety (90) days or less after that day; and
(ii) any certificate of deposit or banker’s acceptance issued by a commercial bank that
is a member of the Federal Reserve System and has a combined unimpaired capital and surplus
and unimpaired undivided profits of not less than Two Hundred Million Dollars
($200,000,000), and maturing not more than ninety (90) days after that day.
“Central Elements” means and includes the value of a substantial part of the Purchased Loans;
the prospects for payment of each portion of the Repurchase Price, both Purchase Price and Price
Differential, when due; the validity or enforceability of this Agreement and the other Repurchase
Documents and, as to any Person referred to in any reference to the Central Elements, such Person’s
and its consolidated Subsidiaries’ property, business operations, financial condition and ability
to fulfill and perform its obligations under this Agreement and the other Repurchase Documents to
which it is a party, each taken as a whole, and such Person’s prospects of continuing in business
as a going concern.
“Certified Copy” means a copy of an original Basic Paper or Supplemental Paper accompanied by
(or on which there is stamped) a certification by an officer of either a title insurer or an agent
of a title insurer (whether a title agency or a closing attorney) or, except where otherwise
specified below, by an Authorized Seller Representative or an officer of the Servicer (if other
than the Seller) or subservicer of the relevant Mortgage Loan, that such copy is a true copy of the
original and (if applicable) that the original has been sent to the appropriate governmental filing
office for recording in the jurisdiction where the related Mortgaged Premises are located. Each
such certification shall be conclusively deemed to be a representation and warranty by the
certifying officer, agent, Authorized Seller Representative or officer of the relevant Servicer or
subservicer, as applicable, to the Administrative Agent, the Buyers and the Custodian upon which
each may rely.
“Change in Law” means (a) the adoption of any applicable Legal Requirement after the Effective
Date, (b) any change in any applicable Legal Requirement or in the interpretation or application
thereof by any Governmental Authority after the Effective Date or (c) reasonable compliance by any
Buyer (or by any applicable office of any Buyer) with any request, guideline or directive (whether
or not having the force of law) of any Governmental Authority made or issued after the Effective
Date.
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“Change of Control” in respect of the Seller means the occurrence of the Parent not owning,
directly or indirectly a majority of the issued and outstanding ownership interests of the Seller.
“Commitment” means, for each Buyer, its commitment under Section 2.1, subject to
reduction as described in Section 2.6, to fund its Funding Share of Transactions, limited to such
Buyer’s Committed Sum. Such term also includes U.S. Bank’s commitment under Section 2.4 to
fund Swing Line Transactions, limited to the Swing Line Limit, upon and subject to the terms of
this Agreement.
“Commitments Cancellation Date” is defined in the definition of “Termination Date”.
“Committed Sum” means, for any day, the maximum total amount a Buyer is committed on that day
to fund for the purchase from the Seller of Eligible Loans on a revolving basis pursuant to this
Agreement without giving effect to any Transaction, on its terms and subject to its conditions.
From the Effective Date of this Agreement through the Termination Date or such other date (if any)
when all or any of them is changed by operation of the provisions of any agreement or Legal
Requirement, the Committed Sums for the Buyers are as set forth on Schedule BC, as it may be
amended and restated from time to time.
“Conforming Mortgage Loan” means a first priority Single-family residential Mortgage Loan that
is (i) FHA insured, (ii) VA guaranteed or, (iii) a conventional mortgage loan that fully conforms
to all Agency underwriting and other requirements and excluding expanded criteria loans as defined
under any Agency program.
“Consolidated” refers to the consolidation of any Person, in accordance with GAAP, with its
properly consolidated subsidiaries excluding all Unrestricted Subsidiaries. References herein to a
Person’s Consolidated financial statements refer to the consolidated financial statements of such
Person and its properly consolidated subsidiaries excluding all Unrestricted Subsidiaries.
“Contingent Indebtedness” of any Person at a particular date means the sum (without
duplication) at such date of (a) all obligations of such Person in respect of letters of credit,
acceptances, or similar obligations issued or created for the account of such Person, (b) all
obligations of such Person under any contract, agreement or understanding of such Person pursuant
to which such Person guarantees, or in effect guarantees, any indebtedness or other obligations of
any other Person in any matter, whether directly or indirectly, contingently or absolutely, in
whole or in part, (c) all liabilities secured by any Lien on any property owned by such Person,
whether or not such Person has assumed or otherwise become liable for the
payment thereof and (d) any liability of such Person or any Affiliate thereof in respect of
unfunded vested benefits under in ERISA Plan, excluding any GAAP Indebtedness.
“Corporation Tax Treatment Certificate” is defined in Section 7.5(a).
“Cumulative Loan-to- Value Ratio” means, as to any Single-family Loan, the ratio of:
(x) the sum of (i) the original principal amount of the Mortgage Note evidencing the
subject Single-Family Loan and (ii) the original principal amounts of all other Mortgage
Notes (if any) secured by a mortgage Lien on the same Mortgaged Premises that secure such
Single-Family Loan;
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to (y) the fair market value of such Mortgaged Premises, as such value is shown in the
most recent Current Appraisal or the most recent Current Broker’s Price Opinion (whichever
is less.)
“Currency Agreement” means any foreign exchange contract, currency swap agreement, futures
contract, option contract, synthetic cap or other similar agreement or arrangement for the purpose
of hedging the currency risk associated with the Seller’s and its Subsidiaries’ operations and not
for speculative purposes.
“Current Appraisal” means an Appraisal dated no earlier than ninety (90) days (or such longer
period, if any, as the Administrative Agent and Syndication Agent shall approve) before the
relevant Determination Date.
“Current Broker’s Price Opinion” means a Broker’s Price Opinion dated no earlier than ninety
(90) days (or such longer period, if any, as the Administrative Agent and Syndication Agent shall
approve) before the relevant Determination Date.
“Custodian” means U.S. Bank, as Custodian under the Custody Agreement, or any successor
custodian under the Custody Agreement acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Syndication
Agent.
“Custodian’s Fees” are the fees to be paid by the Seller to the Custodian for its services
under the Custody Agreement, as provided for in the Custody Agreement or by a separate agreement.
Such fees are separate from and in addition to other fees to be paid to the Buyers and the
Administrative Agent provided for in this Agreement.
“Custody Agreement” means the Custody Agreement dated concurrently herewith among the
Administrative Agent, the Seller and U.S. Bank, as Custodian, as it may be supplemented, amended or
restated from time to time.
“Customer” means and includes each maker of a Mortgage Note and each cosigner, guarantor,
endorser, surety and assumptor thereof, and each mortgagor or grantor
under a Mortgage, whether or not such Person has personal liability for its payment of the
Mortgage Loan evidenced or secured thereby, in whole or in part.
“Debt” means, with respect to any Person, on any day, the sum of the following (without
duplication):
(1) all of that Person’s debt or other obligations which, in accordance with GAAP,
should be included in determining total liabilities as shown on the liabilities side of that
Person’s balance sheet for that day;
(2) all of that Person’s debt or other obligations for borrowed money or for the
deferred purchase price of property or services, except that non-recourse MBS Debt arising
out of transactions structured to qualify for GAAP sale treatment shall be excluded;
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(3) all of any other Person’s debt or other obligations for borrowed money or for the
deferred purchase price of property or services in respect of which such Person is liable,
contingently or otherwise, to pay or advance money or property as guarantor, surety,
endorser or otherwise (excluding such Person’s contingent liability as endorser of
negotiable instruments for collection in the ordinary course of business), or which such
Person has agreed to purchase or otherwise acquire;
(4) obligations of that Person under repurchase agreements, reverse repurchase
agreements, mortgage warehouse lines of credit, sale/buy-back agreements or like
arrangements;
(5) all debt for borrowed money or for the deferred purchase price of property or
services secured by a Lien on any property owned or being purchased by that Person (even
though that Person has not assumed or otherwise become liable for the payment of such debt)
to the extent that such debt would not be otherwise counted as a liability for purposes of
determining that Person’s net worth and to the extent that such debt is less than or equal
to the net book value of such property; and
(6) obligations of that Person in respect of any exchange traded or over the counter
derivative transaction, including any Hedge Agreement whether entered into for hedging or
speculative purposes;
provided that, for purposes of this Agreement, there shall be excluded from the calculation
of Debt for that day both (i) such Person’s obligations to pay to another Person any sums collected
and held by the subject Person (as loan servicer, escrow Administrative Agent or collection
Administrative Agent or in a similar capacity) for the account of such other Person, and
(ii) Qualified Subordinated Debt.
“Default” means the occurrence of any event or existence of any condition that, but for the
giving of notice, the lapse of time or both, would constitute an Event of Default.
“Determination Date” means the date as of, or for, which a specified characteristic of a
Mortgage Loan or other subject matter is being determined for purposes of a provision of this
Agreement or another Repurchase Document.
“Disqualifier” means any of the circumstances or events affecting Purchased Loans that are
described on Schedule DQ.
“Dry Loan” means an Eligible Loan originated by the Seller that has been closed, funded and
qualifies without exception as an Eligible Loan, including satisfying the requirement that all of
its Basic Papers have been delivered to the Custodian.
“Effective Date” means March 27, 2008.
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“Electronic Administrative Agent” means MERSCORP, Inc. or its successor in interest or
assigns.
“Electronic Tracking Agreement” means a written Electronic Tracking Agreement among the
Seller, the Administrative Agent, MERS and the Electronic Agent, in form and substance acceptable
to the Seller and the Administrative Agent, as it may be supplemented, amended, restated or
replaced from time to time.
“Eligible Loans” is defined on Schedule EL.
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and any successor statute,
as amended from time to time, and all rules and regulations promulgated under it.
“ERISA Affiliates” means all members of the group of corporations and trades or businesses
(whether or not incorporated) which, together with the Company, are treated as a single employer
under Section 414 of the Code.
“ERISA Plan” means any pension benefit plan subject to Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the
Code maintained or contributed to by the Company or any ERISA Affiliate with respect to which the
Company has a fixed or contingent liability.
“Escrow Account” shall mean the Escrow Account established by the Seller with a bank
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Syndication Agent under Section 8, and
subject to the control of the Administrative Agent into which amounts paid for escrow accumulation
under Purchased Loans are paid for purposes of paying taxes, insurance and other appropriate escrow
charges.
“Event of Default” is defined in Section 18.1.
“Event of Insolvency” means:
(i) the Seller, the Parent or a Material Subsidiary has commenced as debtor any case or
proceeding under any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, delinquency,
arrangement, readjustment of debt, liquidation, dissolution, or similar Law
of any jurisdiction whether now or hereafter in effect, or consents to the filing of
any petition against it under such Law, or petitions for, causes or consents to the
appointment or election of a receiver, conservator, liquidator, trustee, sequestrator,
custodian or similar official for the Seller, the Parent or a Material Subsidiary or any
substantial part of its property, or an order for relief is entered under the Bankruptcy
Code; or any of Seller’s, the Parent’s or a Material Subsidiary’s property is sequestered by
court or administrative order; or the convening by the Seller, the Parent or a Material
Subsidiary of any meeting of creditors for purposes of commencing any such case or
proceeding or seeking such an appointment or election;
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(ii) the commencement of any such case or proceeding against the Seller, the Parent or
any Material Subsidiary, or another Person’s seeking an appointment or election of a
receiver, conservator, liquidator, trustee, sequestrator, custodian or similar official for
the Seller, the Parent or a Material Subsidiary or any substantial part of its property, or
the filing against the Seller, the Parent or a Material Subsidiary of an application for a
protective decree under the provisions of SIPA which (1) is consented to or not timely
contested by Seller, the Parent or such Material Subsidiary, (2) results in the entry of an
order for relief, such an appointment or election, the issuance of such a protective decree
or the entry of an order having a similar effect or (3) is not dismissed within sixty (60)
days;
(iii) the making by the Seller, the Parent or a Material Subsidiary of a general
assignment for the benefit of creditors; or
(iv) the admission by the Seller, the Parent or a Material Subsidiary of its inability,
or intention not, or the inability of the Seller, the Parent or a Material Subsidiary, to
pay its debts as they become due.
“Excluded Taxes” is defined in Section 7.5.
“Facility Fee” is defined in Section 9.1.
“Xxxxxx Xxx” means the Federal National Mortgage Association and any successor.
“Federal Funds Rate” means, for any day, the rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to
the nearest 1/100th of one percent) equal to the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal
funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers on
such day, as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis on the Business Day next
succeeding such day, provided that (i) if the day for which such rate is to be determined is not a
Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be such rate on such transactions on the
next preceding Business Day as so published on the next succeeding Business Day, and (ii) if such
rate is not so published for any day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be the average rate
quoted to Administrative Agent on such day on such transactions as determined by Administrative
Agent.
“FHA” means the Federal Housing Administration and any successor.
“FICA” means the Federal Insurance Contributions Act.
“FICO” means Fair Xxxxx Corporation and, where used in this Agreement, refers to the credit
scoring system developed by that company or to any other Customer credit scoring system whose use
by the Seller (for purposes of this Agreement and the Transactions) has been specifically approved
in writing by the Administrative Agent and the Syndication Agent.
“File” means a file in the possession of the Custodian or its designee (other than the Seller
or an Affiliate of the Seller) containing all of the Loan Papers for the relevant type of Mortgage
Loan.
“Financial Statements” is defined in Section 15.2(f).
“Xxxxxxx Mac” means the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation and any successor.
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“Funding Account” means the Seller’s non-interest bearing demand deposit account no.
104756234340 maintained with U.S. Bank into which Administrative Agent may transfer funds initially
deposited in the Repurchase Settlement Account for Swingline Transactions and funds otherwise
deposited in the Repurchase Settlement Account for Regular Transactions and from which the
Administrative Agent is authorized to disburse funds to the Seller or its designee (such as its
agents) for the funding of Transactions. The Funding Account shall be subject to setoff by the
Administrative Agent for Pro Rata distribution to the Buyers and shall be subject to the control of
the Administrative Agent.
“Funding Share” means, for each Buyer, that proportion of the sum of the original Purchase
Prices for the Eligible Loans to be purchased in a Transaction that bears the same ratio to the
total amount of such sum as that Buyer’s Committed Sum bears to the Maximum Aggregate Commitment.
“GAAP” means, for any day, generally accepted accounting principles, applied on a consistent
basis, stated in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board and the
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, or in statements and pronouncements of the
Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements by another entity or entities as
may be approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession, that are applicable to the
circumstances for that day. The requirement that such principles be applied on a consistent basis
means that the accounting principles observed in a current period shall be comparable in all
material respects to those applied in an earlier period, with the exception of changes in
application to which the Seller’s independent certified public accountants have agreed and which
changes and their effects are summarized in the subject company’s financial statements following
such changes. If (a) during the term of this Agreement any change(s) in such principles occur(s)
which materially changes the meaning or effect of any provision of this Agreement and (b) the
Seller or the Required Buyers regard such change(s) as adverse to their respective interests, then
upon written notice by the Seller to the Administrative Agent, or by the Administrative Agent or
the Required Buyers to the Seller, the parties to this Agreement shall negotiate promptly and in
good faith a supplement or amendment to this
Agreement to achieve as nearly as possible preservation and continuity of the business
substance of this Agreement in light of such change; provided that neither the
Administrative Agent nor any of the Buyers shall be obligated to commence, continue or conclude any
such negotiation or to execute any such supplement or amendment after any Default has occurred
(other than a Default caused by such change) and before it has been cured or after any Event of
Default has occurred (other than an Event of Default caused by such change) that the Administrative
Agent has not declared in writing to have been cured or waived.
“GAAP Indebtedness” of any Person at a particular date means the sum (without duplication) at
such date of (a) all indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money or for the deferred purchase
price of property or services or which is evidenced by a note, bond, debenture, or similar
instrument, and (b) all obligations of such Person under any lease required by GAAP to be
capitalized on the balance sheet of such Person.
“General Partner” means the general partner of the Seller which on the date hereof is DHI
Mortgage Company GP, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
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“Xxxxxx Mae” means the Government National Mortgage Association and any successor.
“Governmental Authority” means any foreign governmental authority, the United States of
America, any state of the United States and any political subdivision of any of the foregoing, and
any agency, department, commission, board, bureau, court or other tribunal.
“Hazard Insurance Policy” means, with respect to each Purchased Loan, the policy of fire and
extended coverage insurance required by Section 16.18(c)(1) to be maintained for the
related Mortgaged Premises’ improvements (and, if the related Mortgaged Premises are located in a
federally-designated special flood area, federal flood insurance issued in accordance with the
Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, as amended from time to time, or, if repealed, any
superseding legislation governing similar insurance coverage, or similar coverage against loss
sustained by floods or similar hazards that conforms to the flood insurance requirements prescribed
by Xxxxxx Xxx guidelines, which may be provided under a separate insurance policy), which insurance
may be a blanket mortgage impairment policy maintained by such Purchased Loan’s Servicer in
accordance with the terms and conditions of Section 16.18(c)(2).
“Hedge Agreement” means an Interest Rate Protection Agreement, a Currency Agreement or a
forward sales agreement entered into in the ordinary course of the Seller’s or any of its
Subsidiaries’ businesses to protect the Seller against changes in interest rates or the market
value of assets.
“HELOC” means a Single-family Loan that is an open end revolving home equity line of credit
that has an original principal amount not greater than $200,000, a FICO score of at least 660, a
Cumulative Loan-to-Value Ratio of ninety-five percent (95%) or less, satisfies the underwriting
guidelines of two Approved Investors and is subject to an Investor Commitment. Each HELOC that is
not a first lien loan must be a Piggyback Loan.
“HELOC Draw” shall mean the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all advances under a
HELOC, excluding an Unfunded HELOC Commitment but including all advances under such HELOC whether
or not all such advances are included on the Mortgage Loan Transmission File relating to such
HELOC.
“HUD” means the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and any successor.
“In Default” means that, as to any Mortgage Loan, any Mortgage Note payment or escrow payment
is unpaid for thirty (30) days or more after its due date (whether or not the Seller has allowed
any grace period or extended the due date thereof by any means) or another material default has
occurred and is continuing, including the commencement of foreclosure proceedings or the
commencement of a case in bankruptcy for any Customer in respect of such Mortgage Loan.
“Income” means, with respect to any Eligible Loan on any day, all payments of principal,
interest and other distributions thereon or proceeds thereof paid to the relevant party.
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“Income Account” means a demand deposit account established by the Seller with a bank
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Syndication Agent under the provisions of
Section 8, which shall be subject to the control of the Administrative Agent.
“Indemnified Liabilities” is defined in Section 20.2.
“Indemnified Parties” is defined in Section 20.2.
“Interest Rate Protection Agreement” means, with respect to any or all of the Purchased Loans,
any short sale of any U.S. Treasury securities, futures contract, mortgage related security,
Eurodollar futures contract, options related contract, interest rate swap, cap or collar agreement
or similar arrangement providing for protection against fluctuations in interest rates or the
exchange of nominal interest obligations, either generally or under specific contingencies, that is
entered into by the Seller and a financial institution and is reasonably acceptable to the
Administrative Agent and Syndication Agent.
“Internal Revenue Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 or any subsequent federal
income tax law or laws, as amended from time to time.
“Investor Commitment” means an unexpired written commitment held by the Seller from an
Approved Investor to buy Purchased Loans, and that specifies (a) the type or item(s) of Purchased
Loan, (b) a purchase date or purchase deadline date and (c) a purchase price or the criteria by
which the purchase price will be determined.
“JPM” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association and its successors.
“Jumbo Mortgage Loan” means a Mortgage Loan that would otherwise be a Conforming Mortgage Loan
secured by a first Lien Mortgage except that the
original principal amount is more than the maximum Agency loan amount but not more than One
Million Dollars ($1,000,000).
“Jumbo Mortgage Loans Sublimit” is defined in the table in Section 4.2.
“JV” means a joint venture (whether structured as a corporation, partnership, limited
liability company, or other entity or arrangement) between the Seller and one or more builders,
developers, title companies, or other service providers in the residential real estate industry for
the purpose of making Mortgage Loans.
“Law” means any law, statute, code, ordinance, order, rule, regulation, judgment, decree,
injunction, franchise, permit, certificate, license, authorization or other determination,
direction or requirement (including any of the foregoing which relate to environmental standards or
controls, energy regulations and occupational safety and health standards or controls) of any
(domestic or foreign) arbitrator, court or other Governmental Authority.
“Legal Requirement” means any law, statute, ordinance, decree, ruling, requirement, order,
judgment, rule or regulation (or interpretation of any of them) of any Governmental Authority, and
the terms of any license, permit, consent or approval issued by any Governmental Authority.
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LIBOR Business Day” a Business Day which is also a day for trading by and between banks in
United States dollar deposits in the interbank LIBOR market and a day on which banks are open for
business in
New York City.
“LIBOR Margin” shall mean 1.00%.
“LIBOR Rate” on any Determination Date, the average offered rate for deposits in United States
dollars having a maturity of one month (rounded upward, if necessary, to the nearest 1/16 of 1%)
for delivery of such deposits on such Determination Date which appears on the Reuters Screen,
LIBOR01 Page, or any successor thereto as of 11:00 a.m., London time (or such other time as of
which such rate appears) on such date of determination, adjusted for any reserve requirement and
any subsequent costs arising from a change in government regulation, or the rate for such deposits
determined by the Administrative Agent at such time based on such other published service of
general application as shall be selected by the Administrative Agent for such purpose; provided,
that in lieu of determining the rate in the foregoing manner, the Administrative Agent may
determine the rate based on rates at which United States dollar deposits having a maturity of one
month are offered to the Administrative Agent in the interbank LIBOR market at such time for
delivery in immediately available funds on such date of determination in an amount equal to
$1,000,000 (round upward, if necessary, to the nearest 1/16 of 1%).
“LIBOR Rate Tranche” means a portion of the outstanding Purchase Price on Open Transactions on
which the Pricing Rate is determined by reference to the LIBOR Rate plus the applicable LIBOR
Margin.
“Lien” means any lien, mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, security interest, charge or
encumbrance of any kind (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any
lease in the nature thereof and any agreement to give any security interest.)
“Liquidity” means the Seller’s unencumbered and unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents
plus the sum of the unused revolving availability under this Agreement, calculated as the amount by
which the aggregate Purchase Value of all Purchased Mortgage Loans at such time exceeds the
aggregate Purchase Price outstanding for all Open Transactions at such time.
“Loan Papers” means the Mortgage Note and all of the other papers related to the establishment
of a Purchased Loan and the creation, perfection and maintenance of its lien and lien priority for
such Purchased Loan, including its Basic Papers and its Supplemental Papers and including any
papers securing, guaranteeing or otherwise related to or delivered in connection with any Purchased
Loan, in a form acceptable to the Administrative Agent (including any guaranties, lien priority
agreements, security agreements, mortgages, deeds of trust, collateral assignments of the Seller’s
interest in underlying obligations or security, subordination agreements, negative pledge
agreements, loan agreements and title, mortgage, pool and casualty insurance policies), as any such
Loan Paper may be supplemented, amended, restated or replaced from time to time.
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“Loan Records” means books, records, ledger cards, files, papers, documents, instruments,
certificates, appraisal reports, journals, reports, correspondence, customer lists, information and
data that describes, catalogs or lists such information or data, computer printouts, media (tapes,
discs, cards, drives, flash memory or any other kind of physical, electronic or virtual data or
information storage media or systems) and related data processing software (subject to any
licensing restrictions) and similar items that at any time evidence or contain information relating
to any of the Purchased Loans, and other information and data that is used or useful for managing
and administering the Purchased Loans, together with the nonexclusive right to use (in common with
the Seller and any repurchase agreement counterparty or secured party that has a valid and
enforceable interest therein and that agrees that its interest is similarly nonexclusive) the
Seller’s operating systems to manage and administer any of the Purchased Loans and any of the
related data and information described above, or that otherwise relates to the Purchased Loans,
together with the media on which the same are stored to the extent stored with material information
or data that relates to property other than the Purchased Loans (tapes, discs, cards, drives, flash
memory or any other kind of physical or virtual data or information storage media or systems), and
the Seller’s rights to access the same, whether exclusive or nonexclusive, to the extent that such
access rights may lawfully be transferred or used by the Seller’s permittees, and any computer
programs that are owned by the Seller (or licensed to the Seller under licenses that may lawfully
be transferred or used by the Seller’s permittees) and that are used or useful to access, organize,
input, read, print or otherwise output and otherwise handle or use such information and data.
“Margin Call” is defined in Section 6.1(a).
“Margin Deficit” is defined in Section 6.1(a).
“Margin Excess” is defined in Section 6.1(b)
“Margin Stock” has the meaning assigned to that term in Regulation U as in effect from time to
time.
“Market Value” means what the Administrative Agent and the Syndication Agent determine as the
market value of any Purchased Loan, using a commercially reasonable methodology that is, in their
sole discretion, in accordance with standards customarily applicable in the financial industry to
third party service providers providing values on comparable assets to be used in connection with
the financing of such assets without reference to Hedge Agreements or takeout commitments. The
Market Value of any Purchased Loan shall be the lower of the values determined by each of the
Administrative Agent and the Syndication Agent as of any date, or if only one of the Administrative
Agent or the Syndication Agent determines the Market Value on any date, such Market Value. Either
or both of the Administrative Agent or the Syndication Agent may determine the Market Value of any
Purchased Loan at any time and as many times as it or they deem necessary in their sole discretion.
The Administrative Agent’s and the Syndication Agent’s determination of Market Value hereunder
shall be conclusive and binding upon the parties, absent manifest error.
“Material Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Seller whose contributed income constituted
at least five percent (5%) of the Seller’s gross income in the Seller’s most recent fiscal year.
Each Material Subsidiary must be a Restricted Subsidiary.
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“Maximum Aggregate Commitment” means the maximum Aggregate Outstanding Purchase Price that is
allowed to be outstanding under this Agreement on any day, being the amount set forth in
Schedule BC in effect for that day. The Maximum Aggregate Commitment on the Effective Date
is Two Hundred Seventy-Five Million Dollars ($275,000,000). If and when some or all of the Buyers
then party to this Agreement agree in writing to increase their Committed Sums, or if a new Buyer
or Buyers joins the syndicate of Buyers, or if there is both such an increase and a new Buyer’s
joinder, the Administrative Agent shall execute an updated Schedule BC reflecting the new
Maximum Aggregate Commitment and deliver it to the Seller and the Buyers, and that updated
Schedule BC shall thereupon be substituted for and supersede the prior Schedule BC.
“MBS” means a mortgage pass-through security, collateralized mortgage obligation, REMIC or
other security that (i) is based on and backed by an underlying pool of Mortgage Loans and
(ii) provides for payment by its issuer to its holder of specified principal installments and/or a
fixed or floating rate of interest on the unpaid balance and for all prepayments to be passed
through to the holder, whether issued in certificated or book-entry form and whether or not issued,
guaranteed, insured or bonded by Xxxxxx Xxx, Xxxxxx Xxx, Xxxxxxx Mac, an insurance company, a
private issuer or any other investor.
“MERS” means Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., a Delaware corporation, or its
successors or assigns.
“MERS Designated Loan” means a Purchased Loan registered to the Seller on the MERS® System.
“MERS Procedures Manual” means the MERS Procedures Manual, as it may be amended from time to
time.
“MERS® System” means the Electronic Agent’s mortgage electronic registry system, as more
particularly described in the MERS Procedures Manual.
“Mortgage” means a mortgage, deed of trust, deed to secure debt, security deed or other
mortgage instrument or similar evidence of lien legally effective in the U.S. jurisdiction where
the relevant real property is located to create and constitute a valid and enforceable Lien,
subject only to Permitted Encumbrances, on the fee simple or long term ground leasehold estate in
improved real property.
“Mortgage Assignment” means an assignment of a Mortgage, in form sufficient under the Laws of
the U.S. jurisdiction where the real property covered by such Mortgage is located to give record
notice of the assignment of such Mortgage, perfect the assignment and establish its priority
relative to other transactions in respect of the Mortgage assigned (no Mortgage Assignment is
required for any Mortgage that has been originated in the name of MERS and registered under the
MERS® System).
“Mortgage Loan” means any loan evidenced by a Mortgage Note and includes all right, title and
interest of the lender or mortgagee of such loan as a holder of both the beneficial and legal title
to such loan, including (i) all Loan Papers or other loan documents, files and records of the
lender or mortgagee for such loan, (ii) the monthly payments, any prepayments, insurance and other
proceeds, (iii) all Servicing Rights related to such loan and (iv) all other rights, interests,
benefits, security, proceeds, remedies and claims (including, without limitation, REO) in favor or
for the benefit of the lender or mortgagee arising out of or in connection with such loan.
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“Mortgage Loan Transmission File” means a file containing all information concerning each
Mortgage Loan required by the “Record Layout”, as defined and provided for in (and attached as an
exhibit to) the Custody Agreement, one of which shall be delivered by the Seller to each of the
Custodian and the Administrative Agent for each Purchased Loan on its Purchase Date, both by
electronic, computer readable transmission in accordance with such Record Layout and, in the event
such electronic transmission is not possible, by faxing a hard copy thereof to each of the
Custodian and the Administrative Agent.
“Mortgage Note” means a promissory note secured by a Mortgage.
“Mortgaged Premises” means the Property securing a Mortgage Loan.
“Multiemployer Plan” means any “multiemployer plan”, as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of
ERISA, which is maintained for employees of the Seller or any of the Seller’s Subsidiaries.
“Nonfunding Buyer” is defined in the definition of “Pro Rata”.
“Non-excluded Taxes” is defined in Section 7.1.
“Non-exempt Buyer” is defined in Section 7.5.
“Notices” is defined in Section 23.
“Obligations” means all of the Seller’s present and future obligations and liabilities under
this Agreement or any of the other Repurchase Documents, whether for Repurchase Price, Price
Differential, Margin Call, premium, fees, costs, attorneys’ fees or other obligation or liability,
and whether absolute or contingent, and all renewals, extensions, modifications and increases of
any of them.
“Officer’s Certificate” means a certificate executed on behalf of the Seller or another
relevant Person by its (or if it is a partnership, its general partner’s) Board of Directors’
Chairman (or if it is a limited liability company, one of its managers), president, chief financial
officer, treasurer, any of its executive vice presidents or senior vice presidents, its company
secretary, its controller or such other officer as shall be acceptable to the Administrative Agent
and Syndication Agent.
“Open Transaction” means a Transaction in which the Buyers have purchased and paid for the
related Purchased Loans but the Seller has not repurchased all of them, such that the remaining
Purchased Loans not repurchased by the Seller of the subject Transaction would be an Open
Transaction.
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“Operating Account” means the Seller’s non-interest bearing demand deposit account no.
104790245344 maintained with U.S. Bank, subject to a control agreement in favor of the
Administrative Agent and from which the Administrative Agent is authorized pursuant to Section
3.6 to withdraw funds on any day in an amount equal to the aggregate Repurchase Prices of all
Purchased Loans that are Past Due on that day. The Operating Account shall be subject to setoff by
the Administrative Agent for Pro Rata distribution to the Buyers and, upon the occurrence and
during the continuance of a Default or Event of Default described in
Sections 18.1(a), 18.1(b),
18.1(c), 18.1(d), 18.1(g), the Administrative Agent may also terminate Seller’s right to withdraw,
or direct the payment of, funds except funds in excess of those necessary to pay the Obligations in
full.
“Operating Subsidiaries” means all Subsidiaries of the Seller other than Single-purpose
Finance Subsidiaries.
“Organizational Documents” means as to any Person other than a natural Person, its articles or
certificate of incorporation, organization, limited partnership or other document filed with a
Governmental Authority evidencing the organization of such entity and any bylaws, operating
agreement or other governance document governing the rights of the holders of the ownership
interests in such Person.
“Other Taxes” is defined in Section 7.2.
“Parent” means X.X. Xxxxxx, Inc., a Delaware corporation, which owns indirectly through one or
more of its wholly-owned Subsidiaries, one hundred percent (100%) of the general and limited
partnership interests in the Seller.
“Participant” is defined in Section 22.16(a).
“Past Due” means that the Seller has not repurchased the subject Purchased Loan on or before
its Repurchase Date.
“Past Due Rate” means, for any day after the Repurchase Date for the relevant Purchased Loan,
the Prime Rate for that day plus two percent (2.0%) per annum.
“Permitted Encumbrances” means, in respect of the Mortgaged Premises securing a Purchased
Loan, (i) tax Liens for real property taxes and government-improvement assessments that are not
delinquent; (ii) easements and restrictions that do not materially and adversely affect the title
to or marketability of such Mortgaged Premises or prohibit or interfere with the use of such
Mortgaged Premises as a one-to-four family residential dwelling; (iii) reservations as to oil, gas
or mineral rights, provided such rights do not include the right to remove buildings or other
material improvements on or near the surface of such Mortgaged Premises or to mine or drill on the
surface thereof or otherwise enter the surface for purposes of mining, drilling or exploring for,
or producing, transporting or otherwise handling oil, gas or other minerals of any kind;
(iv) agreements for the installation, maintenance or repair of public utilities, provided such
agreements do not create or evidence Liens on such Mortgaged Premises or authorize or permit any
Person to file or acquire claims of Liens against such Mortgaged Premises; (v) with respect to
Purchased Loans which are second Lien Mortgage Loans, first Lien Mortgage Loans; and (vi) such
other exceptions (if any) as are acceptable under relevant Agency guidelines; provided that
any encumbrance that is not permitted pursuant to the standards of any relevant Investor Commitment
by which the subject Purchased Loan is covered shall not be a Permitted Encumbrance.
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“Person” means and includes natural persons, corporations, limited liability companies,
limited partnerships, registered limited liability partnerships, general partnerships, joint stock
companies, joint ventures, associations, companies, trusts, banks, trust companies, land trusts,
business trusts or other organizations, whether or not legal entities, and governments and agencies
and political subdivisions of them.
“Piggyback Loan” means a HELOC or Second Lien Loan where the Mortgaged Premises are subject to
a first Lien Loan that is a Purchased Loan.
“Plan” means an employee pension benefit plan of a type described in Section 3(2) of ERISA and
which is subject to Title IV of ERISA in respect of which the Seller is an “employer” as defined in
Section 3(5) of ERISA.
“Plan Party” is defined in Section 32.1.
“Price Differential” means, with respect to each Tranche under any Transaction hereunder for
any day, the aggregate amount obtained by daily multiplication of the Pricing Rate for such Tranche
for that day by the Purchase Price for such Tranche on a three
hundred sixty (360) day per year basis for the actual number of days during the period
commencing on (and including) the Purchase Date for such Tranche under such Transaction and ending
on (but excluding) the Determination Date, reduced by any such amount previously paid by the Seller
to the Administrative Agent (for Pro Rata distribution to the Buyers) with respect to such Tranche
for such Transaction.
“Pricing Rate” means the per annum percentage rate for determination of Price Differential.
The Pricing Rate for any Tranche may be determined by reference to the Balance Funded Rate, the
LIBOR Rate plus the LIBOR Margin, the Prime Rate or the Past Due Rate, as specified by the Seller
or as otherwise determined under this Agreement.
“Prime Loan” means a Single-family Loan that satisfies the Seller’s Underwriting Guidelines’
requirements to be an “A” or prime Mortgage Loan.
“Prime Rate” means at any time of any determination thereof, the rate per annum which is most
recently publicly announced by U.S. Bank as its “Prime Rate”, which may be a rate at, above or
below the rate at which U.S. Bank lends to other Persons. The Prime Rate is a reference rate and
is not necessarily the lowest rate. Any Pricing Rate based on the Prime Rate shall be adjusted as
of the effective date of each change in the Prime Rate.
“Prime Rate Tranche” means a portion of the outstanding Purchase Price on Open Transactions on
which the Pricing Rate is determined by reference to the Prime Rate.
“Principal Balance” means, for any day, the advanced and unpaid principal balance of a
Purchased Loan on that day. If a Purchased Loan is listed in the most current Purchased Loans
Curtailment Report, then for purposes of this Agreement, the Principal Balance for that Purchased
Loan (absent manifest error) shall be its principal balance as shown in that Purchased Loans
Curtailment Report.
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“Privacy Requirements” means (a) Title V of the Xxxxx-Xxxxx-Xxxxxx Act, 15 U.S.C. 6801 et
seq., (b) federal regulations implementing such act codified at 12 CFR Parts 40, 216, 332 and 573,
(c) the Interagency Guidelines Establishing Standards For Safeguarding Customer Information and
codified at 12 CFR Parts 30, 208, 211, 225, 263, 308, 364, 568 and 570 and (d) any other applicable
federal, state and local laws, rules, regulations and orders relating to the privacy and security
of Seller’s Customer Information, as such statutes, regulations, guidelines, laws, rules and orders
may be amended from time to time.
“Pro Rata” means in accordance with the Buyers’ respective ownership interests in the
Purchased Loans. On any day, the Buyers will each own an undivided fractional ownership interest
in and to each Purchased Loan:
(i) if the Commitments of the Buyers are outstanding on that day, (x) whose numerator
is that Buyer’s Committed Sum for that day and (y) whose denominator is the Maximum
Aggregate Commitment for that day; or
(ii) if the Commitments have expired or have been terminated and have not been
reinstated, (x) whose numerator is the aggregate sum of the portions of the Purchase Prices
paid by that Buyer in all Transactions outstanding on that day and (y) whose
denominator is the aggregate sum of the Purchase Prices paid by all Buyers in all such
Transactions outstanding on the day;
subject to the following adjustment:
if at any time or times when the Commitments are outstanding, any Buyer fails to fund any of
its Funding Share(s) of any Transaction which satisfies the conditions precedent set forth
herein (a “Nonfunding Buyer”) and one or more of the other Buyers funds it (electively in
accordance with the provisions of Section 2.1), then:
(a) the respective ownership interests of both (i) the Nonfunding Buyer and (ii) the
Buyer (or Buyers) that funded such Funding Share(s), shall be proportionately decreased and
increased, respectively, to the same extent as if their respective Committed Sums were
changed in direct proportion to the unreimbursed balance outstanding from time to time
thereafter of the amount so funded;
(b) the Nonfunding Buyer’s share of all future distributions of Repurchase Prices or
other realizations on the Purchased Loans received, pro rata among them in accordance with
their respective unrecovered balances of such Nonfunding Buyer’s Funding Share(s), shall be
distributed to the Buyer(s) that so funded such Nonfunding Buyer’s Funding Share(s) until
all such funding Buyer(s) have been fully repaid the amount so funded; and
(c) such adjustment shall remain in effect until such time as the Buyer(s) that funded
such Funding Share(s) have been so fully repaid.
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If no other Buyer funds any of the Nonfunding Buyer’s Funding Share, then the Pro Rata
ownership interests of the Buyers in the Purchased Loans shall be changed, in that case so
that each Buyer’s Pro Rata ownership interest in the Purchased Loans is equal to the ratio
of (x) the sum of the portions of the Purchase Prices paid by that Buyer in all Open
Transactions on that day to (y) the total of the Purchase Prices paid by all Buyers in all
Open Transactions on that day, but the Nonfunding Buyer’s share of all subsequent
distributions of any Repurchase and Margin payments shall be paid to the other Buyers, pro
rata among them in the ratio that the Pro Rata ownership interest in the Purchased Loans
owned by each bears to the aggregate Pro Rata ownership interests in the Purchased Loans of
all such other Buyers, and the Buyers’ respective Pro Rata ownership interests in the
Purchased Loans shall be readjusted after each such payment, until their Pro Rata ownership
interests are restored to what they were before any Nonfunding Buyer failed to fund.
Notwithstanding any such changes in the Buyers’ Pro Rata ownership interests in any
Purchased Loan due to any Buyer’s failure to fund its Funding Share(s) of any Transaction,
such failure to fund shall not diminish any Buyer’s Funding Share(s) for subsequent
Transactions.
“Property” means any interest of a Person in any kind of property, whether real, personal or
mixed, tangible or intangible, including the Mortgage Loans.
“Purchase Date” means the date for each Transaction when the Seller is to convey the subject
Purchased Loans to the Buyers.
“Purchased Loan Report” means a report provided by the Administrative Agent detailing the
current Aggregate Outstanding Purchase Price for Purchased Loans by the type of Purchased Loan as
described in the table in Section 4.2(c).
“Purchased Loans Support” means all property (real or personal) assigned, hypothecated or
otherwise securing any Purchased Loans and includes any security agreement or other agreement
granting a lien or security interest in such real or personal property, including:
(1) all Loan Papers, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, related to, and all
private mortgage insurance on, any Purchased Loans, and all renewals, extensions,
modifications and replacements of any of them;
(2) all rights, liens, security interests, guarantees, insurance agreements and
assignments accruing or to accrue to the benefit of the Seller in respect of any Purchased
Loan;
(3) all of the Seller’s rights, powers, privileges, benefits and remedies under each
and every paper now or hereafter securing, insuring, guaranteeing or otherwise relating to
or delivered in connection with any Purchased Loan, including all guarantees, lien priority
agreements, security agreements, deeds of trust, Purchased Loans assignments, subordination
agreements, intercreditor agreements, negative pledge agreements, loan agreements,
management agreements, development agreements, design professional agreements, payment,
performance or completion bonds, title and casualty insurance policies and mortgage guaranty
or insurance contracts;
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(4) all of the Seller’s rights, to the extent assignable, in, to and under any and all
commitments issued by (i) Xxxxxx Xxx, Xxxxxx Xxx, Xxxxxxx Mac, another mortgage company or
any other investor or any Buyer or securities issuer to guarantee, purchase or invest in any
of the Purchased Loans or any MBS based on or backed by any of them or (ii) any broker or
investor to purchase any MBS, whether evidenced by book entry or certificate, representing
or secured by any interest in any of the Purchased Loans, together with the proceeds arising
from or pursuant to any and all such commitments;
(5) all rights under every Hazard Insurance Policy relating to real estate securing a
Purchased Loan for the benefit of the creditor of such Purchased Loan, the proceeds of all
errors and omissions insurance policies and all rights under any blanket hazard insurance
policies to the extent they relate to any Purchased Loan or its security and all hazard
insurance or condemnation proceeds paid or payable with respect to any of the Purchased
Loans and/or any of the property securing payment of any of the Purchased Loans or covered
by any related instrument;
(6) all present and future claims and rights of the Seller to have, demand, receive,
recover, obtain and retain payments from, and all proceeds of any nature paid or payable by,
any governmental, quasi-governmental or private mortgage guarantor or
insurer (including VA, FHA or any other Person) with respect to any of the Purchased
Loans; and
all tax, insurance, maintenance fee and other escrow deposits or payments made by the
Customers under such Purchased Loans (the Buyers’ Administrative Agent and the Buyers acknowledge
that the Seller’s rights in such deposits are limited to the rights of an escrow agent and such
other rights, if any, in and to such deposits as are accorded by the Purchased Loans and related
papers) and all monies, accounts, deposit accounts, payment intangibles and general intangibles,
however designated or maintained, constituting or representing so-called “completion escrow” funds
or “holdbacks”, and being Purchased Loans’ proceeds recorded as disbursed but that have not been
paid over to the seller of the subject Mortgaged Premises (the purchase of which is financed by
such Purchased Loan), but that are instead being held by the Seller or by a third party escrow
agent pending completion of specified improvements or landscaping requirements for such Mortgaged
Premises.
“Purchase Price” means (i) on the relevant Purchase Date, the price at which the Purchased
Loans in a Transaction are sold by the Seller to the Buyers, such price being the Purchased Loans’
initial Purchase Value, and (ii) thereafter, except where the Administrative Agent and the Seller
agree otherwise, such Purchased Loans’ Purchase Value decreased by the amount of any cash
transferred in respect of such Purchased Loans (as determined by the Administrative Agent) by the
Seller to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Sections 3.4 and 6.1 (absent
manifest error, the Administrative Agent’s determination of for which Transaction(s) cash was
transferred by the Seller to the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive and binding).
“Purchase Price Decrease” means a reduction in the outstanding Purchase Price for Purchased
Loans without a termination of a Transaction or portion thereof as described in Section
3.4(c).
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“Purchase Value” means (x) the Buyers’ Margin Percentage for a Purchased Loan multiplied by
(y) the least of:
(i) the face principal amount of the related Mortgage Note;
(ii) the unpaid Principal Balance of such Purchased Loan;
(iii) the price to be paid for such Purchased Loan under an Investor Commitment or the
weighted average price under unused Investor Commitments;
(iv) the weighted average purchase price payable pursuant to Hedge Agreements; and
(v) at the discretion of the Administrative Agent or the Syndication Agent, the Market
Value of such Purchased Loan
provided, that (i) the Purchase Value for Purchased Loans in excess of the
sublimits set forth in Section 4.2 shall be zero and, (ii) the Purchase Value for any
Purchased Loan which is not an Eligible Loan shall be zero.
“Purchased Loans” means the Eligible Loans sold by the Seller to the Buyers in Transactions,
and any Eligible Loans substituted therefor in accordance with Section 11. The term
“Purchased Loans” with respect to any Transaction at any time shall also include Additional
Purchased Loans delivered pursuant to Section 6.1. With respect to each HELOC, “Purchased
Loan” shall also include (i) the related HELOC Draw and (ii) all rights (but none of the
obligations) to make future advances under such HELOC.
“Purchased Loans Curtailment Report” means a written report from the Seller to the
Administrative Agent, attached to the compliance certificate in the form of Exhibit C, listing
Purchased Loans on which an unscheduled principal payment, prepayment or reduction of more than an
amount equal to one regularly scheduled principal and interest installment payment was made in the
preceding month, and their resulting new Principal Balances.
“Qualified Balances” has the meaning given such term in the definition of “Balance Funded
Amount”.
“Qualified Subordinated Debt” means Debt of the Seller to any Person which has been approved
by the Administrative Agent and the Syndication Agent (i) the papers evidencing, securing,
governing or otherwise related to which Debt impose covenants and conditions on the debtor under
them that are no more restrictive or onerous than the covenants and conditions imposed on the
Seller by this Agreement, (ii) that is subordinated to the Obligations pursuant to a currently
effective and irrevocable Subordination Agreement, including standstill and blockage provisions,
approved by the Administrative Agent and Syndication Agent and (iii) the principal of which is not
due and payable before ninety (90) days after the date specified in clause (i) of the
definition of “Termination Date”.
“Recourse Servicing” means Servicing Rights under a Servicing Agreement with respect to which
the Servicer is obligated to repurchase or indemnify the holder of the related Mortgage Loans in
respect of defaults on such Mortgage Loans at any time during the term of such Mortgage Loans.
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“Register” is defined in Section 22.16(c).
“Regular Transaction” means a Transaction funded by all Buyers, rather than by U.S. Bank under
the Swing Line.
“Regulation D” means Regulation D promulgated by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, 12 C.F.R. Part 204, or any other regulation when promulgated to replace the prior
Regulation D and having substantially the same function.
“Regulation Q” means Regulation Q promulgated by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, 12 C.F.R. Part 217, or any other regulation when promulgated to replace the prior
Regulation Q and having substantially the same function.
“Regulation T” means Regulation T promulgated by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, 12 C.F.R. Part 220, or any other regulation when promulgated to replace the prior
Regulation T and having substantially the same function.
“Regulation U” means Regulation U promulgated by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, 12 C.F.R. Part 221, or any other regulation when promulgated to replace the prior
Regulation U and having substantially the same function.
“REO” means Single-family real property owned following judicial or nonjudicial foreclosure
(or conveyance by deed in lieu of foreclosure) of a Mortgage securing a Single-family Loan.
“Repurchase Date” means the date on which Seller is to repurchase Purchased Loans from the
Buyers, being the earlier of (i) the date when the Approved Investor is to purchase such Purchased
Loans, and (ii) any date determined by application of the provisions of Section 3.4 or
18.
“Repurchase Documents” means and includes this Agreement, the Custody Agreement, any financing
statements or other papers now or hereafter authorized, executed or issued pursuant to this
Agreement, and any renewal, extension, rearrangement, increase, supplement, modification or
restatement of any of them.
“Repurchase Price” means the price at which Purchased Loans are to be resold by the Buyers to
the Seller upon termination of a Transaction (including Transactions terminable upon demand), which
will be determined in each case as the sum of (x) the Purchase Price and (y) the Price Differential
as of the date of such determination.
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“Repurchase Settlement Account” means the Seller’s non-interest bearing demand deposit account
no. 104756234365 to be maintained with U.S. Bank and to be used for (a) the Administrative Agent’s
and the Buyers’ deposits of Purchase Price payments for Purchased Loans (including any Swingline
Purchases) (b) any principal payments received by the Administrative Agent or the Custodian (other
than regular principal and interest payments) on any Purchased Loans; (c) the Administrative
Agent’s deposits of Repurchase Price payments received from the Seller or from an Approved Investor
for the Seller’s account for distribution to the Buyers and (d) only if and when (i) no Default has
occurred unless it has been either cured by the Seller or waived in writing by the Administrative
Agent (acting with the requisite consent of the Buyers as provided in this Agreement) and (ii) no
Event of Default has occurred unless the Administrative Agent has declared in writing that it has
been cured or waived, the Administrative Agent’s transfer to the Funding Account of deposits
received under clause (a) above for payment to the Seller or its designees such as its agents, or
the transfer to the Operating Account of proceeds of sales or other dispositions of Purchased Loans
to an Approved Investor in excess (if any) of the Repurchase Price of such Purchased Loan. The
Repurchase Settlement Account is (and shall continuously) constitute collateral for the
Obligations. The Repurchase Settlement Account shall be subject to setoff by the Administrative
Agent for Pro Rata distribution to the Buyers. The Repurchase Settlement Account shall be a
blocked account from which the Seller shall have no right to directly withdraw funds, but instead
such funds may be withdrawn or paid out only against the order of an authorized officer of the
Administrative Agent (acting with the requisite consent of the Buyers as provided herein), although
under the circumstances described in clause (d) of the first sentence of this definition and
subject to the conditions specified in that clause, the Administrative Agent shall use diligent and
reasonable efforts to cause Purchase Price payment
amounts and amounts in excess of the applicable Repurchase Prices that are received as therein
described and that are deposited to the Repurchase Settlement Account before 3:00 PM on a Business
Day to be transferred to the Operating Account on that same Business Day or on the Business Day
thereafter when the Administrative Agent next determines the Buyers’ Pro Rata shares of such
Purchase Price payment amounts or Repurchase Prices received.
“Request/Confirmation” means a request and confirmation, substantially in the form of
Exhibit A, delivered pursuant to Section 4.
“Required Buyers” means, for any day, Buyers whose Commitments comprise at least sixty-six and
two-thirds percent (66-2/3%) of (a) the Maximum Aggregate Commitment under this Agreement, or
(b) who own at least sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66-2/3%) of the Purchased Loans owned by the
Buyers on that day if on or before that day the Commitments have expired or have been terminated
and have not been reinstated.
“Restricted Subsidiary” means any subsidiary of the Seller in existence on the date hereof and
any Subsidiary hereafter acquired or formed by the Seller which the Seller does not designate as an
Unrestricted Subsidiary.
“Second Lien Loan” means a Single-family Loan as to which the Lien against the related
Mortgaged Premises is second and inferior to the Lien of a single senior Mortgage Loan with a
Cumulative Loan-to-Value Ratio of ninety-five percent (95%) or less, that satisfies the
underwriting guidelines of two Approved Investors and is subject to an Investor Commitment. Each
Second Lien Loan must be a Piggyback Loan.
“Second Lien Loan/HELOC Sublimit” is defined in the table in Section 5.2.
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“Seller’s Consolidated Tangible Net Worth” means, as of any date, the remainder of (a) all
assets of the Seller and the Restricted Subsidiaries on a Consolidated basis minus (b) the sum of
(i) all GAAP Indebtedness and all Contingent Indebtedness of the Seller and the Restricted
Subsidiaries, (ii) all assets of the Seller and the Restricted Subsidiaries which would be
classified as intangible assets under GAAP, including, but not limited to, Capitalized Servicing
Rights, goodwill (whether representing the excess of cost over book value of assets acquired or
otherwise), patents, trademarks, trade names, copyrights, franchises, deferred charges and
intercompany receivables, (iii) investments in and advances to Unrestricted Subsidiaries, and (iv)
investments in and advances (other than loans permitted pursuant to Section 17.5) to JV’s.
“Seller’s Customer” means any natural person who has applied to the Seller for a financial
product or service, has obtained any financial product or service from the Seller or has a Mortgage
Loan that is serviced or subserviced by the Seller.
“Seller’s Customer Information” means any information or records in any form (written,
electronic or otherwise) containing a Seller’s Customer’s personal information or identity,
including such Seller’s Customer’s name, address, telephone number, loan number, loan payment
history, delinquency status, insurance carrier or payment information, tax amount or payment
information and the fact that such Seller’s Customer has a relationship with the Seller.
“Seller’s Underwriting Guidelines” means the Seller’s Mortgage Loan underwriting guidelines
for Single-family Loans, a copy of which will be made available to Administrative Agent and
Syndication Agent upon request and material changes to which, with respect to Mortgage Loans that
are not Conforming Mortgage Loans, will be made only upon prior notice by the Seller to, and with
approval of, the Administrative Agent and Syndication Agent. If the Administrative Agent or the
Syndication Agent does not approve of such changes, Mortgage Loans subject to such changes shall
not be Eligible Loans.
“Serviced Loans” means all Mortgage Loans serviced or required to be serviced by the Seller
under any Servicing Agreement, irrespective of whether the actual servicing is done by another
Person (a subservicer) retained by the Seller for that purpose.
“Servicer” means, initially, the Seller, and upon termination of the Seller’s right to be
Servicer pursuant to the provisions of Section 19.7, any Person designated by the
Administrative Agent and the Syndication Agent (including the Administrative Agent).
“Servicing Agreement” means, with respect to any Person, the arrangement, whether or not in
writing, pursuant to which that Person acts as servicer of Mortgage Loans, whether owned by that
Person or by others.
“Servicing Functions” means, with respect to the servicing of Mortgage Loans, the collection
of payments for the reduction of principal and application of interest, collection of amounts held
or to be held in escrow for payment of taxes, insurance and other escrow items and payment of such
taxes and insurance from amounts so collected, foreclosure services, and all other actions required
to conform with Accepted Servicing Practices.
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“Servicing Rights” means the rights and obligations to administer and service a Mortgage Loan,
including, without limitation, the rights and obligations to: ensure the taxes and insurance are
paid, provide foreclosure services, provide full escrow administration and perform any other
obligations required by any owner of a Mortgage Loan, collect the payments for the reduction of
principal and application of interest, and manage and remit collected payments.
“Single-family Loan” means a Mortgage Loan that is secured by a Mortgage covering real
property improved by a one-, two-, three- or four-family residence.
“Single purpose Finance Subsidiary” means a wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Seller whose only
authorized business is to issue MBSs or hold passive investments.
“SIPA” means the Securities Investors Protection Act of 1970, 15 U.S.C. §78a et. seq., as
amended.
“Solvent” means, for any Person, that (a) the fair market value of its assets exceeds its
liabilities, (b) it has sufficient cash flow to enable it to pay its debts as they mature, and (c)
it does not have unreasonably small capital to conduct its business.
“Statement Date” means December 31, 2007.
“Statement Date Financial Statements” is defined in Section 15.2(f).
“Sublimit” means one or more (as the context requires) of the sublimits described in
Section 4.2.
“Subordination Agreement” means a written subordination agreement in form and substance
satisfactory to and approved by the Administrative Agent and Syndication Agent that subordinates
(x) all present and future debts and obligations owing by the Seller to the Person signing such
subordination agreement to (y) the Obligations, in both right of payment and lien priority,
including standstill and blockage provisions approved by the Administrative Agent and Syndication
Agent.
“Subservicer” means any entity permitted by Administrative Agent and Syndication Agent to act
as a subservicer of the Servicer who shall perform Servicing Functions under a Subservicer
Instruction Letter.
“Subservicer Instruction Letter” means an instruction letter to a Subservicer in form and
substance agreed to by Seller and Administrative Agent and Syndication Agent.
“Subsidiary” means any corporation, association or other business entity (including a trust)
in which any Person (directly or through one or more other Subsidiaries or other types of
intermediaries), owns or controls:
(a) more than fifty percent (50%) of the total voting power or shares of stock entitled
to vote in the election of its directors, managers or trustees; or
(b) more than ninety percent (90%) of the total assets and more than ninety percent
(90%) of the total equity through the ownership of capital stock (which may be non-voting)
or a similar device or indicia of equity ownership.
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“Super Jumbo Mortgage Loan” means a fully documented first lien Mortgage Loan that would be a
Jumbo Mortgage Loan except that the principal balance is greater than $1,000,000 and no greater
than $1,500,000 and the Cumulative Loan to Value Ratio is no more than 80%.
“Supplemental Papers” means the Loan Papers for a particular Loan other than its Basic Papers.
“Swing Line” means the short term revolving Eligible Loans purchase facility provided for in
Section 2.4 under which U.S. Bank will fund (as “Swing Line Purchases”) purchases of
Eligible Loans to bridge the Seller’s daily Transactions.
“Swing Line Limit” means, for any day, the lesser of (x) the U.S. Bank’s Commitment, and
(y) the Maximum Aggregate Commitment minus the Aggregate Outstanding Purchase Price outstanding on
that day, being the maximum amount that may be funded and outstanding on that day under the Swing
Line.
“Swing Line Refunding Due Date” for each Transaction funded under the Swing Line means the
Business Day on which U.S. Bank shall elect to have such Swing Line Transaction funded by the
Buyers pursuant to Section 2.5 (provided that U.S. Bank shall elect to have such Swing Line
Transactions so funded no less than two times per week) following the Business Day when U.S. Bank
funds such Transaction under the Swing Line; provided that U.S. Bank agrees not to exercise
such discretion to choose a due date in a manner that would materially affect the Seller’s ability
to complete a Transaction under this Agreement unless a Default has occurred that has not been
cured by the Seller or declared in writing by the Administrative Agent to have been waived or any
Event of Default has occurred that the Administrative Agent has not declared in writing to have
been cured or waived, in each case, as provided in Section 22.
“Swing Line Transaction” means a Transaction funded by U.S. Bank under the Swing Line.
“Taxes” is defined in Section 7.1.
“Termination Date” means the earlier of (i) March 26, 2009, or (ii) the date (the “Commitments
Cancellation Date”) when the Buyers’ Commitments are terminated pursuant to this Agreement, by
order of any Governmental Authority or by operation of law.
“Total Liabilities” means all liabilities of the Seller and its Subsidiaries, including
nonrecourse debt as, in accordance with GAAP, are reflected on the Seller’s consolidated balance
sheet, and also including all contingent liabilities and obligations (including Recourse Servicing,
recourse sale and other recourse obligations, and guarantee, indemnity and mortgage loan repurchase
obligations).
“Tranche” means a portion of the Open Transactions. A Tranche may be a Balance Funded Rate
Tranche, a LIBOR Rate Tranche or a Prime Rate Tranche.
“Transaction” is defined in the Recitals.
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“UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code or similar Laws of the applicable jurisdiction, as
amended from time to time.
“Unfunded HELOC Commitment” means, with respect to each HELOC, the aggregate amount available
to be drawn by the related mortgagor.
“Unrestricted Subsidiary” means (i) any Subsidiary of the Seller that at the time of
acquisition or formation of such Subsidiary by the Seller shall be designated as an Unrestricted
Subsidiary by the Board of Directors of the General Partner in the manner provided below and
(ii) any Subsidiary of an Unrestricted Subsidiary. The Board of Directors of the General Partner
may designate any newly acquired or formed Subsidiary to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary, provided
that no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of or, after
giving effect to such designation. The Board of Directors may designate any Unrestricted
Subsidiary to be a Restricted Subsidiary by delivering written notice of such designation to
Administrative Agent together with a compliance certificate signed by the
President, Accounting Director or Chief Financial Officer of General Partner which shall
certify to Administrative Agent and Buyers that at the date of and, after giving effect to such
designation, the Seller shall be in compliance with all covenants set forth in the Repurchase
Documents and no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
“VA” means the Department of Veterans Affairs and any successor.
“Wet Loan” means a Purchased Loan originated and owned by the Seller immediately prior to
being purchased by the Buyers:
(a) that has been closed on or prior to the Business Day on which the Purchase Price is
paid therefore, by a title agency or closing attorney, is fully funded and would qualify as
an Eligible Loan except that some or all of its Basic Papers are in transit to, but have not
yet been received by, the Custodian so as to satisfy all requirements to permit the Seller
to sell it pursuant to this Agreement without restriction;
(b) that the Seller reasonably expects to fully qualify as an Eligible Loan when the
original Basic Papers have been received by the Custodian;
(c) as to which the Seller actually and reasonably expects that such full qualification
can and will be achieved on or before seven (7) Business Days after the relevant Purchase
Date; and
(d) for which the Seller has delivered to the Custodian a Mortgage Loan Transmission
File on or before the Purchase Date, submission of which to the Custodian shall constitute
the Seller’s certification to the Custodian, the Buyers and the Administrative Agent that a
complete File as to such Purchased Loan, including the Basic Papers, exists and that such
File is in the possession of either the title agent or closing attorney that closed such
Purchased Loan, the Seller or that such File has been or will be shipped to the Custodian.
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Each Wet Loan that satisfies the foregoing requirements shall be an Eligible Loan subject to the
condition subsequent of physical delivery of its Mortgage Note, Mortgage and all other Basic
Papers, to the Custodian on or before seven (7) Business Days after the relevant Purchase Date.
Each Wet Loan sold by the Seller shall be irrevocably deemed purchased by the Buyers and shall
automatically become a Purchased Loan effective on the date of the related Request/Confirmation,
and the Seller shall take all steps necessary or appropriate to cause the sale to the Buyers and
delivery to the Custodian of such Wet Loan and its Basic Papers to be completed, perfected and
continued in all respects, including causing the original promissory note evidencing such Purchased
Loan to be physically delivered to the Custodian within seven (7) Business Days after the relevant
Purchase Date, and, if requested by the Administrative Agent, to give written notice to any title
agent, closing attorney or other Person in possession of the Basic Papers for such Purchased Loan
of the Buyers’ purchase of such Purchased Loan. Upon the Custodian’s receipt of the Basic Papers
relative to a Wet Loan such Purchased Loan shall no longer be considered a Wet Loan.
“Wet Loans Sublimit” is defined in Section 4.2.
(a) Accounting terms not otherwise defined shall have the meanings given them under
GAAP.
(b) Defined terms may be used in the singular or the plural, as the context requires.
(c) Except where otherwise specified, all times of day used in the Repurchase Documents
are local (U.S. Central Time Zone) times in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
(d) Unless the context plainly otherwise requires (e.g., if preceded by the word
“not”), wherever the word “including” or a similar word is used in the Repurchase Documents,
it shall be read as if it were written, “including by way of example but without in any way
limiting the generality of the foregoing concept or description”.
(e) Unless the context plainly otherwise requires, wherever the term “Administrative
Agent” is used in this Agreement (excluding Section 22), it shall be read as if it
were written “the Administrative Agent (as agent and representative of the Buyers)”.
2.1. The Buyers’ Commitments to Purchase. Subject to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement and provided no Default or Event of Default has occurred that the Administrative Agent
and Syndication Agent have not declared in writing to have been cured or waived (or, if one has
occurred and not been so declared cured or waived, if all of the Buyers, in their sole discretion
and with or without waiving such Default or Event of Default, have elected in writing that
Transactions under this Agreement shall continue nonetheless), the Buyers agree to make revolving
purchases of Eligible Loans on a servicing released basis through the Termination Date, so long as
the Aggregate Outstanding Purchase Price does not exceed the Maximum Aggregate Commitment and so
long as each Buyer’s Committed Sum is not exceeded.
The Buyers’ respective Committed Sums and the
Maximum Aggregate Commitment are set forth on Schedule BC in effect at the relevant time,
as it may have been amended or restated pursuant to this Agreement.
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Upon the joinder of additional
Buyer(s), if any, the parties agree to approve in writing revised and updated versions of
Schedule BC. The fractions to be applied to determine the respective Funding Shares of the
Buyers for any day are their respective Committed Sums divided by the Maximum Aggregate Commitment
for that day. Each Buyer shall be obligated to fund only that Buyer’s own Funding Share of any
Transaction requested, and no Buyer shall be obligated to the Seller or any other Buyer to fund a
greater share of any Transaction. No Buyer shall be excused from funding its applicable Funding
Share of any Transaction merely because any other Buyer has failed or refused to fund its relevant
Funding Share of that or any other Transaction. If any Buyer fails to
fund its Funding Share of any Transaction, the Administrative Agent (in its sole and absolute
discretion) may choose to fund the amount that such Nonfunding Buyer failed or refused to fund, or
the Administrative Agent as a Buyer and the other Buyers who are willing to do so shall have the
right (but no obligation) to do so in the proportion that the Committed Sum of each bears to the
total Committed Sums of all Buyers that have funded (or are funding) their own Funding Shares of
that Transaction and that are willing to fund part of the Funding Share of such Nonfunding Buyer.
Should the Administrative Agent and/or any other Buyer(s) fund any or all of the Nonfunding Buyer’s
Funding Share of any Transaction, then the Nonfunding Buyer shall have the obligation to deliver
such amount to the Administrative Agent (for distribution to the Buyer(s) who funded it) in
immediately available funds on the next Business Day. Regardless of whether the other Buyers fund
the Funding Share of the Nonfunding Buyer, the respective ownership interests of the Buyers in the
Transaction shall be adjusted as provided in the definition of “Pro Rata”. The obligations of
Buyers hereunder are several and not joint.
2.2. Expiration or Termination of the Commitments. Unless extended in writing or terminated
earlier in accordance with this Agreement, the Buyers’ Commitments (including U.S. Bank’s Swing
Line Commitment) shall automatically expire at the close of business on the Termination Date,
without any requirement for notice or any other action by the Administrative Agent, any of the
Buyers or any other Person.
2.3. Request for Increase in Maximum Aggregate Commitment. If the Seller shall request in
writing to the Administrative Agent and Syndication Agent an increase in the Maximum Aggregate
Commitment to a specified amount up to Five Hundred Million Dollars ($500,000,000), the Syndication
Agent shall use its best efforts to obtain increased Committed Sums from existing Buyers, new
Commitments from prospective new Buyers or such combination thereof as the Syndication Agent shall
elect, to achieve such requested increase; provided that (i) the Syndication Agent shall
first offer the opportunity to the then-existing Buyers to proportionately increase their Committed
Sums before offering prospective new Buyers the opportunity to join the syndicate of Buyers, and
will next offer the opportunity to the then-existing Buyers who have agreed to increase their
Committed Sums to further proportionately increase them to include any Committed Sums increase
offered to but not accepted by any of the other then-existing Buyers, (ii) such written request by
the Seller is delivered to the Administrative Agent and Syndication Agent at least ten (10)
Business Days before the requested effective date of the increase and (iii) no Default has occurred
that has not been cured before it has become an Event of Default, and no Event of Default has
occurred that the Administrative Agent and Syndication Agent has not declared in writing to have
been waived or cured.
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If an increase in the Maximum Aggregate Commitment is achieved, then (i) the
Pro Rata ownership interest in the Purchased Loans of each Buyer (if any) that does not
proportionately increase its Committed Sum shall, following funding by the new Buyers,
automatically be reduced and adjusted proportionately and (ii) Schedule BC shall be updated
and the update executed and delivered by the Administrative Agent to the Seller and each of the
Buyers and, effective as of the date specified on such update, shall each automatically supersede
and replace the then-existing corresponding schedule for all purposes.
2.4.
Swing Line Commitment . In addition to its Commitment under
Section 2.1, U.S. Bank agrees to fund revolving
Swing Line Transactions for aggregate Purchase Prices which do not on any day exceed the Swing Line
Limit for the purpose of initially funding requested Transactions.
(a) The Seller shall have the right to a Swing Line Transaction:
(1) only if such Swing Line Transaction fully qualifies in all respects for
funding as Regular Transaction under this Agreement except that it may have been
requested later in the day;
(2) provided that no Default has occurred that has not been cured before it has
become an Event of Default, and no Event of Default has occurred that the
Administrative Agent has not declared in writing to have been waived or cured and
all conditions precedent in Article 14 have been satisfied;
(3) so long as the Swing Line Limit is not exceeded;
(4) provided that the Request/Confirmation for the proposed Transaction is
received by U.S. Bank by no later than 3:00 p.m. on the Business Day such
Transaction is to be funded; and
(5) provided that neither the Seller nor U.S. Bank is aware of any reason why
the requested Transaction cannot or will not be fully funded by the Buyers on the
first Swing Line Refunding Due Date following the Business Day on which the Swing
Line Transaction is to be funded.
(b) All Swing Line Transactions shall have a Price Differential from the date funded
until the date repaid and the Repurchase Price therefor shall be due and payable to U.S.
Bank at the same rate(s) as would be applicable if such Swing Line Transactions had been
funded as Regular Transactions by all Buyers, instead of having been funded by U.S. Bank
alone as Swing Line Transactions (except for any Balance Funded Rate Tranche that might be
available due to funds on deposit with U.S. Bank).
(c) Each Swing Line Transaction shall be re-funded on its Swing Line Refunding Due Date
by the Administrative Agent’s paying over to U.S. Bank out of the Repurchase Settlement
Account, and U.S. Bank’s applying against such Swing Line Transaction, an amount equal to
the Purchase Price of the Transaction funded by all of the Buyers in their Funding Shares of
such Purchase Price on that day against the same Request/Confirmation that was initially
funded as a Swing Line Transaction at which time such Transaction shall be deemed to be a
Regular Transaction, provided that if the Seller shall not have delivered a new
Request/Confirmation to the Administrative Agent and the Custodian for such Regular
Transaction, then the initial Pricing Rate applicable thereto shall be the LIBOR Rate plus
the LIBOR Margin as determined by the Administrative Agent.
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(d)
Accrued Price Differential Due. All accrued Price Differential on Swing
Line Transactions shall be due and payable by the Seller to the Administrative Agent (for
distribution to U.S. Bank) on the Price Differential payment due date (determined under
Section 5.6) next following the date of the Swing Line Transaction.
2.6.
Optional Reduction or Termination of Buyers’ Commitments. The Seller may, at any time,
without premium or penalty, upon not less than ten (10) Business Days prior written notice to the
Administrative Agent, reduce or terminate the Maximum Aggregate Commitment, ratably, with any such
reduction in a minimum aggregate amount for all the Buyers of $25,000,000, or, if more, in an
integral multiple of $25,000,000;
provided,
however, that (i) the Seller may reduce
the Maximum Aggregate Commitment no more than once each calendar quarter, (ii) at no time may the
Aggregate Outstanding Purchase Price exceed the Maximum Aggregate Commitment after giving effect to
any such reduction and, (iii) unless terminated in full, the Maximum Aggregate Commitment shall not
be reduced to less than $100,000,000. Upon termination of the Buyers’ Commitments pursuant to this
Section, the Seller shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the ratable benefit of the Buyers the
full amount of all outstanding Obligations under the Repurchase Documents.
(a) Any agreement to enter into a Transaction shall be made by notice to the
Administrative Agent at the initiation of the Seller. To request a Transaction, the Seller
shall provide the Administrative Agent and Custodian with a written Request/Confirmation in
the form of Exhibit A together with transmission to the Administrative Agent and the
Custodian of the Mortgage Loan Transmission File for each of the Eligible Loans subject to
the Transaction by electronic transmission.
(b) If the Seller submits a Request/Confirmation and its related Mortgage Loan
Transmission Files to the Administrative Agent and the Custodian and:
(1) they are all received by 1:00 p.m., on the proposed Purchase Date, the
Transaction shall be funded as a Regular Transaction;
(2) they are not all received until after 1:00 p.m. but before 3:00 p.m. on
the proposed Purchase Date, the Transaction shall be funded as a Swing Line
Transaction;
(3) they are not all received until after 3:00 p.m. on the proposed Purchase
Date, U.S. Bank shall either, at its election, (i) fund the requested Transaction as
a Swing Line Transaction on that same day, or (ii) arrange for its funding on the
next Business Day as a Regular Transaction.
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U.S. Bank shall have no obligation to fund any such late-requested Transaction as is described in
Section 3.1(b)(2) or 3.1(b)(3) as a Swing Line Transaction if all of the
requirements of Section 2.5 and this Section 3 are not satisfied, although U.S.
Bank may elect to do so. If U.S. Bank does not elect to do so, then the Buyers shall fund such
requested Transaction as a Regular Transaction on the next succeeding Business Day after the
Request/Confirmation and its related Mortgage Loan Transmission Files are received by the
Administrative Agent, provided that all conditions to its funding (including the requirements of
Section 2.5, this Section 3 and Section 14) are then satisfied.
(a) When a Request/Confirmation is received by the Administrative Agent, the
Administrative Agent shall give notice by fax or, at the Administrative Agent’s discretion,
email backed up by fax, to each Buyer of the requested Transaction and that Buyer’s Funding
Share for the requested Transaction, by 2:00 p.m. on the Business Day when the requested
Transaction is to be funded by the Buyers, and each Buyer shall cause its Funding Share
thereof to be transferred to the Administrative Agent by fed funds wire transfer to:
U.S. Bank National Association
ABA number 000000000
Attention: Mortgage Banking Services
Account No. 104756234365
For Credit to: DHI Mortgage Company, Ltd.
within two (2) hours after receiving such notice from the Administrative Agent or by 4:00
p.m., so that the Administrative Agent receives it in immediately available funds on that
same Business Day.
(b) If U.S. Bank has not already funded the requested Transaction as a Swing Line
Transaction, then (provided the conditions set forth in Section 14 have been
satisfied or waived with the requisite consent of the Buyers as provided herein) the
Administrative Agent shall transfer the sum of the Purchase Prices for the Transaction to
the Funding Account and disburse the sum of the Purchase Prices for the Transaction to the
Seller or to its designee(s) for their account.
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(c) If U.S. Bank has funded the requested Transaction (or any part of it) as a Swing
Line Transaction, and if at the time such Swing Line Transaction was funded, U.S. Bank
reasonably believed that all of the conditions set forth in Section 2.5 were
satisfied in all material respects, then the other Buyers shall be (subject to the
provisions of this Agreement and the other Repurchase Documents) unconditionally and
irrevocably obligated to timely fund their respective Funding Shares of the Transaction that
was so initially funded as a Swing Line Transaction, to repay to U.S. Bank (and thereby
refund) on the relevant Swing Line Refunding Due Date upon notice from U.S. Bank received no
later than 2:00 p.m. on the Swing Line Refunding Due Date, all of that Swing Line
Transaction except only U.S. Bank’s Funding Share of it, irrespective of whether in the
meantime any Default or Event of Default has occurred or been discovered, and irrespective
of whether in the meantime some or all of the Buyers’ Commitments have lapsed, expired or
been canceled, rescinded or terminated with or without cause, or have been waived, released
or excused for any reason whatsoever, so that (i) the Swing Line is paid down by the
required amount on each Swing Line Refunding Due Date, all Price Differential accrued on
Swing Line Transactions to the applicable Swingline Refunding Due Date shall be due and
payable by the Seller to the Administrative Agent (for distribution from the Repurchase
Settlement Account to U.S. Bank) within two(2) days after the Administrative Agent bills the
Seller for such Price Differential, but in no event later than the Termination Date, and
(ii) all Swing Line Transactions are converted to Regular Transactions funded Pro Rata by
the Buyers. The Administrative Agent shall disburse to U.S. Bank from the Repurchase
Settlement Account an amount equal to the sum of the Funding Shares funded by all of the
other Buyers on that day against the same Request/Confirmation that was initially funded as
a Swing Line Transaction (excluding U.S. Bank’s own Funding Share thereof); provided
that if a Buyer other than U.S. Bank advises the Administrative Agent by telephone and
confirms the advice by fax that such Buyer has placed all of its Funding Share on the
federal funds wire to the Repurchase Settlement Account, the Administrative Agent shall
continue to keep the Swing Line Transaction outstanding to the extent of that Buyer’s
Funding Share so wired until such Buyer’s Funding Share is received in the Repurchase
Settlement Account, and the Administrative Agent shall then repay U.S. Bank that
still-outstanding portion of the Swing Line Transaction from the Repurchase Settlement
Account, and the Price Differential accrued at the Pricing Rate(s) applicable to the
Transaction on that Funding Share for the period from (and including) the relevant Swing
Line Refunding Due Date to (but excluding) the date such Buyer’s Funding Share is received
by the Administrative Agent shall belong to U.S. Bank; provided, further that in no
event shall U.S. Bank have any obligation to continue such portion of any Swing Line
Transaction outstanding if and to the extent, if any, that doing so would cause the total
amount funded by U.S. Bank and outstanding to exceed the Swing Line Limit. If any Buyer
fails to wire to the Repurchase Settlement Account so that such funds are received by 4:00
p.m. on the Swing Line Refunding Due Date, such Buyer’s Funding Share of any Regular
Transaction that was initially funded as a Swing Line Transaction (i.e., excluding any such
failure caused by a federal funds wire delay), then that Buyer shall also be obligated to
pay to U.S. Bank Price Differential on the Funding Share so due from such Buyer to U.S. Bank
at the Federal Funds Rate from (and including) such Swing Line Refunding Due Date to (but
excluding) the date of payment of such Funding Share.
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3.3.
Request/Confirmation. Each Request/Confirmation and its Mortgage Loan Transmission File
shall identify the Administrative Agent and the Seller and set forth the Purchase Date and the
Pricing Rate that is to be applicable to the relevant Transaction or each Tranche thereof. Each
Request/Confirmation shall be binding on the parties, unless written notice of objection is given
by the objecting party to the other party within one (1) Business Day after the Administrative
Agent has received the completed Request/Confirmation from the Seller. In the event of any
conflict between the terms of a Request/Confirmation and this Agreement, this Agreement shall
prevail.
(a)
Automatic Termination. Each Transaction, or applicable portion thereof, will
automatically terminate on the earlier of (x) the date or dates when the subject Purchased
Loans are purchased by Approved Investor(s) and (y) the Termination Date.
(1) How Terminations will be Effected. Termination of every Transaction will
be effected by (x) the Buyers’ reconveyance to the Seller or its designee of the
Purchased Loans and payment of any Income in respect thereof received by the
Administrative Agent and not previously either paid to the Seller or applied as a
credit to the Seller’s Obligations, against (y) payment of the Repurchase Price in
immediately available funds to the account referred to in Section 3.5 by
1:00 p.m. on the Repurchase Date, so that the Administrative Agent receives the
Repurchase Price (for Pro Rata distribution to the Buyers) in immediately available
funds on that same Business Day; provided that the portion of the Repurchase
Price attributable to accrued and unpaid Price Differential for the Repurchased Loan
shall be not be due until two (2) Business Days after the Administrative Agent bills
the Seller therefor; provided further that all accrued and unpaid Price
Differential shall be due and payable on the Termination Date.
(c)
Purchase Price Decrease. The Seller may effectuate a Purchase Price Decrease on
any Business Day by delivery to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds an
amount specified by the Seller as a Purchase Price Decrease on that Business Day. No
Purchased Loans shall be, or be deemed to be, repurchased in connection with a Purchase
Price Decrease.
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U.S. Bank National Association
000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
ABA number 000000000
For Credit Account No. 104756234365
For credit to: DHI Mortgage Company, Ltd. Repurchase Settlement Account
3.6.
If Repurchase Price Not Paid. If the Seller fails for any reason to repurchase any one
or more Purchased Loans on the relevant Repurchase Date in the manner and by the time specified in
Sections 3.4 and
3.5, the Administrative Agent is hereby specifically and
irrevocably authorized to withdraw funds from the Operating Account in an amount equal to the sum
of the Repurchase Prices of all Purchased Loans that are Past Due on that day and cause application
of such funds withdrawn to the payment of the Repurchase Prices of such Purchased Loans in such
order and manner as the Administrative Agent may elect and if funds in the Operating Account are
insufficient to pay the Repurchase Prices of all such Purchased Loans, the Seller shall pay the
amount due hereunder on demand by wire to the address in
Section 3.5.
3.7.
Transfer of Existing Mortgage Loan Portfolio. The Administrative Agent, the Syndication
Agent and some of the Buyers and the Seller are also parties to a Second Amended and Restated
Credit Agreement dated as of April 7, 2006 (as amended, the “Warehousing Credit Agreement”)
pursuant to which such Buyers and the Administrative Agent (acting as Administrative Agent for the
lenders party to the Warehousing Credit Agreement) have made Advances (defined in the Warehousing
Credit Agreement) in the nature of loans to Seller. Repayment of these Advances and all interest
accrued thereon, and payment and performance of the other obligations of Seller under the
Warehousing Credit Agreement, are secured by a pledge and grant of a first priority security
interest in certain Mortgage Loans and related collateral delivered by Seller to the Administrative
Agent under the Warehousing Credit Agreement (collectively, the “Existing Mortgage Loan
Portfolio”), all on the terms and conditions set forth therein and in the Second Amended and
Restated Pledge and Security Agreement referred to therein. Seller has requested that it be
permitted to sell the Existing Mortgage Loan Portfolio, on the terms and conditions set forth
herein, to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Buyers as soon as convenient on or after
the Effective Date, and this
Section 3.7 and
Section 3.8 memorialize the parties’
further agreements on that subject.
3.8.
Closing of Portfolio Sale. Seller, the Administrative Agent and the Syndication Agent
and the Buyers shall make commercially reasonable efforts to complete a sale of the Existing
Mortgage Loan Portfolio to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Buyers on the terms and
conditions of this Agreement as soon as practicable on or after the Effective Date, subject to the
following changes in the terms and conditions of this Agreement that are applicable to the Existing
Mortgage Loan Portfolio and the Mortgage Loans therein:
(a) The Repurchase Date for each such Mortgage Loan under Section 3.4 (and as
set forth in the Disqualifiers on Schedule DQ) shall be measured from the date on
which the Mortgage Loan was first pledged by Seller pursuant to the Warehousing Credit
Agreement. The requirement of Schedule EL (l0) that each Eligible Loan be originated no
more than 30 days prior to its Purchase Date shall be measured from the date on which the
Mortgage Loan was first pledged by Seller pursuant to the Warehousing Credit Agreement (i.e.
that it was originated no more than 30 days prior to the date it was first pledged by Seller
pursuant to the Warehousing Credit Agreement). The prior pledge of an Eligible Loan that is
a part of the Existing Mortgage Loan Portfolio pursuant to the Warehousing Credit Agreement
shall not violate any covenant, representation or warranty under this Agreement regarding a
prior pledge of any Eligible Loan.
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(b) Each such Mortgage Loan must be an Eligible Loan at the time of purchase under this
Agreement unless otherwise agreed by all Buyers and the Seller.
(c) Seller makes the following additional representations and warranties in connection
with the sale and purchase of the Existing Mortgage Loan Portfolio: Seller has not filed a
petition in any case, action or proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code or any similar state
law; no petition in any case, action or proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code or any similar
state laws have been filed against Seller that has not been dismissed or vacated; and Seller
has not filed any answer or otherwise admitted in writing any insolvency or inability to pay
its debts or has made an assignment for the benefit of creditors or consented to the
appointment of a receiver or trustee of all or a material part of its property. Seller has
no intention to make any such filing or admission in the next ninety (90) days. The sale
and purchase of the Existing Mortgage Loan Portfolio will not be a preference, voidable
transfer, fraudulent conveyance, or otherwise in violation of the Bankruptcy Code or any
similar state or federal law.
3.9.
Delivery of Additional Mortgage Loans. Seller may from time to time deliver to the
Administrative Agent Mortgage Loans that are also Eligible Loans without entering into a new
Transaction by providing to the Administrative Agent the documents required under Section 3.1 with
respect to such Mortgage Loans. The Seller and Buyers agree that such Mortgage Loans delivered
pursuant to this Section 3.9 shall be treated as Purchased Loans subject to the existing
Transactions hereunder from the date of such delivery.
3.10.
Application of Repurchase Price Payments. Upon receipt by the Administrative Agent of
amounts paid or prepaid as Purchase Price Decreases or Repurchase Price (except upon the exercise
of remedies provided in Section 18) the Administrative Agent shall apply amounts so received to the
payment of all Obligations which are then due, and if the amount so received is insufficient to pay
all such Obligations, (i) first to any reimbursement due under Section 20.1, (ii) second to payment
of all Swingline Transactions that have not been syndicated, and (iii) third to partial payment of
Obligations then due or as otherwise agreed by the Buyers.
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4.1.
Transaction Limits. Each Transaction shall be subject to the limitation that no purchase
will be made if at the time of or after such purchase, the Aggregate Outstanding Purchase Price
exceeds or would exceed the Maximum Aggregate Commitment.
4.2.
Transaction Sublimits. The following sublimits shall also be applicable to the
Transactions hereunder such that after giving effect to any proposed Transaction and after giving
effect to any repurchase, addition or substitution of any Mortgage Loan hereunder, the following
shall be true:
(a) The Aggregate Outstanding Purchase Price of Conforming Mortgage Loans may be as
much as one hundred percent (100%) of the Maximum Aggregate Commitment.
(b) The Aggregate Outstanding Purchase Price of all Purchased Loans that are Wet Loans
shall not exceed (x) fifty-five percent (55%) of the Maximum Aggregate Commitment on any of
the first four and last four Business Days of any month or (y) thirty percent (30%) of the
Maximum Aggregate Commitment on any other day (the “Wet Loans Sublimit”).
(c) The Aggregate Outstanding Purchase Price of all Purchased Loans that are of the
type listed in the first column of the following table shall not exceed the percentage of
the Maximum Aggregate Commitment listed in the second column of the table (the name of that
Sublimit is set forth in the third column):
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|
Maximum percentage of |
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|
Type of Purchased |
|
Maximum Aggregate |
|
|
Loan |
|
Commitment |
|
Name of Sublimit |
Jumbo Mortgage Loans
|
|
10%* |
|
“Jumbo Mortgage Loans
Sublimit” |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
Super Jumbo Mortgage
Loans
|
|
5%* |
|
“Super Jumbo Mortgage
Loans Sublimit” |
|
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|
|
|
|
Second Lien
Loans/HELOCs
(collectively)
|
|
5%* |
|
“Second Lien
Loan/HELOC Sublimit” |
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|
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|
Alt-A Agency Loans
|
|
15% |
|
“Alt-A Agency Loans
Sublimit” |
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|
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|
|
|
|
Alt-A Non-Agency Loans
|
|
5%* (provided that
Alt-A Agency Loans and
Alt-A Non-Agency Loans
collectivley shall not
exceed 15%)
|
|
“Alt-A Non-Agency
Loans Sublimit” |
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|
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|
|
|
Agency Eligible
Non-owner Occupied
Loans
|
|
5% |
|
“Agency-eligible
Non-owner Occupied
Loans Sublimit” |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
Agency-eligible Forty
Year Loans
|
|
5% |
|
“Agency-eligible
Forty Year Loans
Sublimit” |
|
|
|
* |
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Notwithstanding the Sublimits set forth in the table above in the column “Maximum Aggregate
Commitment” the Aggregate Outstanding Purchase Price outstanding for all Jumbo, Super Jumbo
Mortgage Loans, Alt-A Non-Agency Loans, Second Lien Loans and HELOCS shall not at any time exceed
ten (10) percent of the Maximum Aggregate Commitment.
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5.1. Pricing Rate. Subject to the following rules, and as contemplated in the definition of
“Pricing Rate”, unless the Seller has validly elected the Prime Rate or the Balance Funded Rate for
specific Tranches, the Pricing Rate to be applied to the Purchase Prices of Purchased Loans to
determine the Price Differential in all Open Transactions or Tranches as to which the Price
Differential is to be determined by reference to the LIBOR Rate, on any day when no Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing shall be the LIBOR Rate plus the LIBOR Margin applicable
from time to time (in each case computed annually).
5.2. Seller’s Election of Pricing Rate. The Seller may elect that the Pricing Rate to be
multiplied by the Purchase Prices of the subject Purchased Loans or any Tranche to determine the
Price Differential in all Open Transactions or portions thereof designated as Tranches, be the
Prime Rate or the Balance Funded Rate from time to time by giving the Administrative Agent
telephonic notice not later than 10:00 AM on the effective date of such election, specifying the
Business Day when such election is to become effective and confirming the telephonic notice in
writing by not later than the close of business on the same day. A Balance Funded Rate may only be
selected where a Buyer is holding Qualifying Balances and shall only be applicable to such Buyer.
5.3.
Seller’s Re-election of the Pricing Rate. If the Seller has elected the Prime Rate or
the Balance Funded Rate for any Tranche or Tranches, the Seller may thereafter elect that the
Pricing Rate to be so multiplied by the Purchase Prices of the subject Purchased Loans in Open
Transactions or such Tranches outstanding from time to time again bear interest at the LIBOR Rate
plus the LIBOR Margin by giving the Administrative Agent telephonic notice not later than 10:00 AM
on the effective date of such election, specifying the Business Day when such election is to become
effective and confirming the telephonic notice in writing by not later than the close of business
on the same day.
5.4.
Balances Deficiency Fees. If for any Balance Calculation Period the Balance Funded Amount maintained by the Seller
with any Buyer is less than an amount equal to the average daily aggregate unpaid principal balance
of the Balance Funded Rate Tranches owed to such Buyer during such Balance Calculation Period (such
deficiency being herein referred to as the “Balances Deficiency”), the Seller will pay such Buyer a
fee (the “Balances Deficiency Fee”) for said Balance Calculation Period on the Balances Deficiency
at a per annum rate equal to the average daily LIBOR Rate
plus LIBOR Margin in effect
during said Balance Calculation Period; and provided further, that if the Balance Funded Amount
maintained by the Seller with any Buyer for any Balance Calculation Period exceeds the weighted
average daily aggregate unpaid principal balance of the Balance Funded Rate Tranches held by such
Buyer during such Balance Calculation Period (such excess being defined herein as the “Balances
Surplus”), then such Balances Surplus may be carried forward and applied to succeeding Balance
Calculation Periods (but not to any Balance Calculation Period occurring in any subsequent calendar
year).
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5.5.
Pricing Rate for Past Due Purchased Loans. Notwithstanding any contrary or inconsistent
provision of this
Section 5, the Pricing Rate to be multiplied by the Purchase Prices of
all Past Due Purchased Loans shall be the Past Due Rate from (and including) (a) the day
immediately following the Repurchase Date for each such Past Due Purchased Loan and until (but
excluding) the date on which such Past Due Purchased Loan is repurchased by transfer to the
Administrative Agent (for Pro Rata distribution to the Buyers) of its full Repurchase Price in
immediately available funds; and (b) the occurrence of an Event of Default under Section 18.1.
5.6.
Price Differential Payment Due Dates. Price Differential on each Open Transaction and
each Tranche thereunder accrued and unpaid to the end of each month before the Termination Date
(and including any Balance Deficiency Fee) shall be due and payable two (2) Business Days after the
Administrative Agent bills the Seller for it, whether or not such Transaction is still an Open
Transaction on such payment due date;
provided that all accrued and unpaid Price
Differential (and Balance Deficiency Fees) on all Transactions shall be due on the Termination
Date.
(a) The Administrative Agent will recalculate the Purchase Value
of all Purchased Loans on any date that the Market Value of Purchased Loans is calculated by
the Administrative Agent or Syndication Agent as described in Section 6.6 and on any
other date if requested by the Syndication Agent or at any other time the Administrative
Agent elects to do so. If at any time the aggregate Purchase Value of all Purchased Loans
subject to all Transactions hereunder is less than the aggregate Repurchase Price (excluding
Price Differential minus cash transfers previously made from Seller to the Administrative
Agent in response to previous Margin Calls, if any) for all such Transactions (a “Margin
Deficit”), then by notice to the Seller (a
“Margin Call”), the Administrative Agent shall, require the Seller to transfer (for the
account of the Buyers) to the Administrative Agent or the Custodian, as appropriate either
(at the Seller’s option) cash or additional Eligible Loans reasonably acceptable to the
Administrative Agent (“Additional Purchased Loans”), or a combination of cash and Additional
Purchased Loans, so that the cash and the aggregate Purchase Value of the Purchased Loans,
including any such Additional Purchased Loans, will thereupon at least equal the then
aggregate Repurchase Price (excluding Price Differential).
(b) On any Business Day on which the Purchase Value of the Purchased Loans subject to
Transactions exceeds the then outstanding aggregate Repurchase Price of all Transactions (a
“Margin Excess”), so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing
or will result therefrom, the Administrative Agent shall, upon receipt of written request
from the Seller, remit cash or release Purchased Loans as requested by Seller, in either
case, in an amount equal to the lesser of (i) the amount requested by the Seller and (ii)
such Margin Excess, subject always to the other limitations of this Agreement. If cash is
to be remitted the Administrative Agent shall treat the receipt of the written request of
Seller under this Section 6.1(b) as if it were a request for a Transaction. To the extent
the Administrative Agent remits cash to the Seller, such cash shall be (y) additional
Purchase Price with respect to the Transactions, and (z) subject in all respects to the
provisions and limitations of this Agreement. Each Buyer shall fund its Pro Rata share of
such additional Purchase Price as if the remission of such Margin Excess were the initiation
of a Transaction hereunder.
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6.2.
Margin Call Deadline. If the Administrative Agent delivers a Margin Call to the Seller
at or before 10:00 a.m. on any Business Day, then the Seller shall transfer cash and/or Additional
Purchased Loans as provided in
Section 6.1 on the same Business Day. If the Administrative
Agent delivers a Margin Call to the Seller after 10:00 a.m. on any Business Day, then the Seller
shall transfer cash and/or Additional Purchased Loans by no later than 10:00 a.m. on the next
following Business Day.
6.3.
Application of Cash. Any cash transferred to the Administrative Agent (for Pro Rata
distribution to the Buyers) pursuant to this
Section 6 shall be applied by the Buyers on
receipt from the Administrative Agent which shall occur on the date received from the Seller or the
next Business Day if received after 3:00 p.m.
6.4.
Increased Cost. If any Legal Requirement (other than with respect to any amendment made
to the relevant Buyer’s articles of incorporation and by-laws or other organizational or governing
documents) or any change in the interpretation or application thereof or compliance by any Buyer
with any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any central bank or
other Governmental Authority made subsequent to the Effective Date:
(a) shall subject such Buyer to any Tax or increased Tax of any kind whatsoever with
respect to this Agreement or any Transaction or change the basis of taxation of payments to
the Buyer in respect thereof;
(b) shall impose, modify or hold applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory
loan or similar requirement against assets held by, deposits or other liabilities in or for
the account of, advances, or other extensions of credit by, or any other acquisition of
funds by, any office of the Buyer which is not otherwise included in the determination of
the LIBOR Rate hereunder; or
(c) shall impose on the Buyer any other condition;
and the result of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to the Buyer, by an amount which the
Buyer deems to be material, of entering, continuing or maintaining any Transaction or to reduce any
amount due or owing hereunder in respect thereof, then, in any such case, the Seller shall promptly
pay the Administrative Agent (for distribution to such Buyer) such additional amount or amounts as
calculated by the Buyer in good faith as will compensate the Buyer for such increased cost or
reduced amount receivable.
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6.5.
Capital Adequacy. If any Buyer shall have determined that the adoption of or any change
in any Legal Requirement (other than with respect to any amendment made to the Buyer’s articles of
incorporation and by-laws or other organizational or governing documents) regarding capital
adequacy or in the interpretation or application thereof or compliance by the Buyer or any
corporation controlling the Buyer with any request or directive regarding capital adequacy (whether
or not having the force of law) from any Governmental Authority made subsequent to the Effective
Date shall have the effect of reducing the rate of return on the Buyer’s or such corporation’s
capital as a consequence of its obligations hereunder to a level below that which the Buyer or such
corporation could have achieved but for such adoption, change or compliance (taking into
consideration the Buyer’s or such corporation’s policies with respect to capital adequacy) by an
amount deemed by the Buyer to be material, then from time to time, the Seller shall promptly pay to
the Administrative Agent (for distribution to such Buyer) such additional amount or amounts as will
compensate the Buyer or such corporation for such reduction.
6.6.
Administrative Agent’s Report. In the discretion of the Administrative Agent and
Syndication Agent if either reasonably determines that market conditions warrant (except that the
Administrative Agent and Syndication Agent shall have no obligation to make such determination more
frequently than
once per day), the Administrative Agent and Syndication Agent may: (1) determine the
aggregate Market Values for the Purchased Loans (which may include the Purchase Value of any
Mortgage Loans purchased on that day) by summing the values of the individual Purchased Loans as
reported on (and recorded by the Administrative Agent from) the Mortgage Loan Transmission Files
and Purchased Loans Curtailment Reports, valuing at zero Purchased Loans for which the
Administrative Agent or Syndication Agent has current actual knowledge that a Disqualifier exists;
(2) issue a statement of the value of the Purchased Loans as so determined; and (3) provide a copy
of such statement to the Seller and each Buyer,
provided that, if the
Administrative Agent has not provided such a statement to the Seller and each Buyer at least one
time in a calendar month, the Administrative Agent shall provide to the Seller and each Buyer a
Purchased Loan Report no later than the last Business Day of each month.
If, on the date for determining the LIBOR Rate in respect of any LIBOR Rate Tranche,
any Buyer determines (which determination shall be conclusive and binding, absent error)
that the LIBOR Rate will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Buyer of funding
such LIBOR Rate Tranche, then such Buyer shall notify the Administrative Agent, and the
Administrative Agent shall notify the Seller, of such determination, whereupon the
obligation of such Buyer to make, or to convert any Tranche to, LIBOR Rate Tranches shall be
suspended until such Buyer notifies the Administrative Agent, and the Administrative Agent
notifies the Seller, that the circumstances giving rise to such suspension no longer exist.
Outstanding LIBOR Rate Tranches held by such Buyer shall thereupon automatically be
converted to bear interest at a rate equal to the Federal Funds Rate plus 0.50%
plus the LIBOR Margin, and in such event, the Seller will thereafter be entitled to
designate subsequent Tranches to bear interest at the Federal Funds Rate plus 0.50%
plus the LIBOR Margin.
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If, after the date of this Agreement, the adoption of, or any change in, any applicable
law, rule or regulation, or any change in the interpretation or administration thereof by
any governmental authority, central bank or comparable agency charged with the
interpretation or administration thereof, or compliance by any Buyer with any request or
directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any such authority, central bank or
comparable agency shall make it unlawful or impossible for such Buyer to make, maintain or
fund LIBOR Rate Tranches or Balance Funded Rate Tranches, such Buyer shall notify the Seller
and the Administrative Agent, whereupon the obligation of such Buyer to make or convert
Tranches into LIBOR Rate Tranches or Balance Funded Rate Tranches, shall be suspended until
such Buyer notifies the Seller and the Administrative Agent that the circumstances giving
rise to such suspension no longer exist. If any Buyer determines that it may not lawfully
continue to maintain any LIBOR Rate Tranches or Balance Funded Rate Tranches, all of the
affected Tranches shall be automatically converted as of the date of such Buyer’s notice to
bear interest at a rate equal to the Federal Funds Rate plus 0.50% plus the
LIBOR Margin and, in such event, the Seller will
thereafter be entitled to designate subsequent Tranches to bear interest at the Federal
Funds Rate plus 0.50% plus the LIBOR Margin.
7.1.
Payments to be Free of Taxes; Withholding. Any and all payments by the Seller under or
in respect of this Agreement or any other Repurchase Documents to which the Seller is a party shall
be made free and clear of, and without deduction or withholding for or on account of, any and all
present or future taxes, levies, imposts, deductions, charges or withholdings, and all liabilities
(including penalties, interest and additions to tax) with respect thereto, whether now or hereafter
imposed, levied, collected, withheld or assessed by any taxation authority or other Governmental
Authority (collectively, “Taxes”), unless required by any Law. If the Seller shall be required
under any applicable Legal Requirement to deduct or withhold any Taxes from or in respect of any
sum payable under or in respect of this Agreement or any of the other Repurchase Documents to the
Administrative Agent (for the account of the Buyers), (i) the Seller shall make all such deductions
and withholdings in respect of Taxes, (ii) the Seller shall pay the full amount deducted or
withheld in respect of Taxes to the relevant taxation authority or other Governmental Authority in
accordance with any applicable Legal Requirement and (iii) the sum payable by the Seller shall be
increased as may be necessary so that after the Seller has made all required deductions and
withholdings (including deductions and withholdings applicable to additional amounts payable under
this
Section 7) each Buyer receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had
no such deductions or withholdings been made in respect of Non-excluded Taxes. For purposes of
this Agreement the term “Non-excluded Taxes” means Taxes other than, in the case of any Person,
Taxes that are imposed on its overall net income (and franchise taxes imposed in lieu thereof) by
the jurisdiction under the laws of which such Person is organized or of its applicable lending
office, or any political subdivision thereof.
7.2.
Other Taxes. In addition, the Seller hereby agrees to pay any present or future stamp,
recording, documentary, excise, property or value-added taxes, or similar taxes, charges or levies
that arise from any payment made under or in respect of this Agreement or any other Repurchase
Document or from the execution, delivery or registration of, any performance under, or otherwise
with respect to, this Agreement or any other Repurchase Documents (collectively, “Other Taxes”).
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7.3.
Taxes Indemnity. The Seller hereby agrees to indemnify the Buyers and the Administrative
Agent for, and to hold each of them harmless against, the full amount of Non-excluded Taxes and
Other Taxes, and the full amount of Taxes of any kind imposed by any jurisdiction on amounts
payable under this
Section 7 imposed on or paid by the Buyers or the Administrative Agent
and any liability (including penalties, additions to tax, interest and expenses) arising therefrom
or with respect thereto. The indemnity by the Seller provided for in this
Section 7.3
shall apply and be
made whether or not the Non-excluded Taxes or Other Taxes for which indemnification hereunder
is sought have been correctly or legally asserted. Amounts payable by the Seller under the
indemnity set forth in this
Section 7.3 shall be paid within ten (10) days from the date on
which the Administrative Agent makes written demand therefor.
7.4.
Receipt. Within thirty (30) days after the date of any payment of Taxes, the Seller (or
any Person making such payment on behalf of the Seller) shall furnish to the Administrative Agent
for each Buyer’s account a certified copy of the original official receipt evidencing payment
thereof.
7.5.
Non-Exempt Buyer. For purposes of this
Section 7.5, the terms “United States”
and “United States person” shall have the meanings specified in Section 7701 of the Internal
Revenue Code. Each Buyer (including, for avoidance of doubt, any assignee, successor or
participant) that (i) is not incorporated under the laws of the United States, any State thereof or
the District of Columbia and (ii) whose name does not include “Incorporated”, “Inc.”,
“Corporation”, “Corp.”, “P.C.”, “insurance company” or “assurance company” (a “
Non-Exempt Buyer”)
shall deliver or cause to be delivered to Seller the following properly completed and duly executed
documents:
(a) in the case of a Non-Exempt Buyer that is not a United States person, (i) a
complete and executed (x) U.S. Internal Revenue Form W-8BEN with Part II completed in which
the Buyer claims the benefits of a tax treaty with the United States providing for a zero or
reduced rate of withholding (or any successor forms thereto), including all appropriate
attachments or (y) a U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-8ECI (or any successor forms
thereto) and (ii) if such Non-Exempt Buyer is treated as a corporation for United States
federal tax purposes, a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit E (a
“Corporation Tax Treatment Certificate”); or
(b) in the case of an individual, (x) a complete and executed U.S. Internal Revenue
Service Form W-8BEN (or any successor forms thereto) and a Corporation Tax Treatment
Certificate or (y) a complete and executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (or any
successor forms thereto); or
(c) in the case of a Non-Exempt Buyer that is organized under the laws of the United
States, any State thereof, or the District of Columbia, (i) a complete and executed U.S.
Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (or any successor forms thereto), including all
appropriate attachments, and (ii) if such Non-Exempt Buyer is treated as a corporation for
United States federal tax purposes, a Corporation Tax Treatment Certificate; or
(d) in the case of a Non-Exempt Buyer that (x) is not organized under the laws of the
United States, any State thereof, or the District of Columbia and (y) is treated as a
corporation for U. S. federal income tax purposes, a complete and executed U.S. Internal
Revenue Service Form W-8BEN claiming a zero rate of withholding (or any successor forms
thereto) and a Corporation Tax Treatment Certificate; or
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(e) in the case of a Non-Exempt Buyer that (A) is treated as a partnership or other
non-corporate entity, and (B) is not organized under the laws of the United States, any
State thereof, or the District of Columbia, (x)(i) a complete and executed U.S. Internal
Revenue Service Form W-8IMY (or any successor forms thereto) (including all required
documents and attachments) and (ii) a Corporation Tax Treatment Certificate, and (y) without
duplication, with respect to each of its beneficial owners and the beneficial owners of such
beneficial owners looking through chains of owners to individuals or entities that are
treated as corporations for U.S. federal income tax purposes (all such owners, “beneficial
owners”), the documents that would be required by this Section 7.5 with respect to
each such beneficial owner if such beneficial owner were a Buyer, provided that no
such documents will be required with respect to a beneficial owner to the extent the actual
Buyer is determined to be in compliance with the requirements for certification on behalf of
its beneficial owner as may be provided in applicable U.S. Treasury regulations, or the
requirements of this Section 7.5 are otherwise determined to be unnecessary, all
such determinations under this Section 7.5 to be made in the sole discretion of
Seller, provided that each such Buyer shall be provided an opportunity to establish such
compliance as reasonable; or
(f) in the case of a Non-Exempt Buyer that is disregarded for U.S. federal income tax
purposes, the document that would be required by this Section 7.5 with respect to
its beneficial owner if such beneficial owner were a Buyer; or
(g) in the case of a Non-Exempt Buyer that (A) is not a United States person and (B) is
acting in the capacity as an “intermediary” (as defined in U.S. Treasury regulations),
(x)(i) a U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-8IMY (or any successor form thereto)
(including all required documents and attachments) and (ii) a Corporation Tax Treatment
Certificate, and (y) if the intermediary is a “non-qualified intermediary” (as defined in
U.S. Treasury regulations), from each person upon whose behalf the “non-qualified
intermediary” is acting the documents that would be required by this Section 7.5
with respect to each such person if each such person were a Buyer.
If the forms referred to in this Section 7.5 that are provided by a Buyer at the time such
Buyer first becomes a party to this Agreement, a successor to a Buyer or, with respect to a
permitted assignment of or a grant of a participation in the interests of a Buyer hereunder, the
effective date thereof, indicate a United States interest withholding tax rate in excess of zero,
withholding tax at such rate shall be treated as Taxes other than Non-excluded Taxes (“Excluded
Taxes”) and shall not qualify as Non-Excluded Taxes unless and until such Buyer provides the
appropriate form certifying that a lesser rate applies, whereupon withholding tax at such lesser
rate shall be considered Excluded Taxes solely for the periods governed by such form. If, however,
on the date a Person becomes an assignee, successor or participant to this Agreement, Buyer
transferor was entitled to indemnification or additional amounts under this Section 7, then
the Buyer assignee, successor or participant shall be entitled to indemnification or additional
amounts to the extent (and only to the extent), that the Buyer transferor was entitled to such
indemnification or additional amounts for Non-excluded Taxes, and the Buyer assignee, successor or
participant shall be entitled to additional indemnification or additional amounts for any other or
additional Non-excluded Taxes.
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7.6.
If Buyer Fails to Provide Form. For any period with respect to which a Buyer required to
do so has failed to provide Seller with the appropriate form, certificate or other document
described in
Section 7.5 (other than (i) if such failure is due to a change in any
applicable Legal Requirement, or in the interpretation or application thereof, occurring after the
date on which a form, certificate or other document originally was required to be provided, (ii) if
such form, certificate or other document otherwise is not required under
Section 7.5 or
(iii) if it is legally inadvisable or otherwise commercially disadvantageous for such Buyer to
deliver such form, certificate or other document), such Buyer shall not be entitled to
indemnification or additional amounts under
Section 7.2 or
Section 7.3 with respect
to Non-excluded Taxes imposed by the United States by reason of such failure;
provided that
should a Buyer become subject to Non-excluded Taxes because of its failure to deliver a form,
certificate or other document required hereunder, Seller shall take such steps as such Buyer shall
reasonably request, to assist such Buyer in recovering such Non-excluded Taxes.
7.7.
Survival. Without prejudice to the survival of any other agreement of the Seller
hereunder, the agreements and obligations of the Seller contained in this
Section 7 shall
survive the termination of this Agreement. Nothing contained in this
Section 7 shall
require the Buyer to make available any of its tax returns or any other information that it deems
to be confidential or proprietary.
8.1 Income and Escrow Payments. Notwithstanding that the Buyers, the Administrative Agent and
the Seller intend that the Transactions be sales to the Buyers of the Purchased Loans, where a
particular Transaction’s term extends over an Income payment date on the Eligible Loans subject to
that Transaction, all payments and distributions, whether in cash or in kind, made on or with
respect to the Purchased Loans shall be paid directly to the Seller or its designee by the relevant
Customer, and the Administrative Agent (and the Buyers) shall have no obligation to collect or
apply any Income to prevent or reduce any Margin Deficit, unless the Seller (i) arranges for such
Income to be paid to the Administrative Agent (for Pro Rata distribution to the Buyers),
(ii) requests that the Administrative Agent apply such Income when received against the Seller’s
Margin Deficit(s) and (iii) concurrently transfers to the Administrative Agent either (x) cash or
(y) at the Administrative Agent’s option and with the Administrative Agent’s written approval,
Additional Purchased Loans, sufficient to eliminate such Margin Deficit. Amounts paid to the
Seller by the relevant Customer shall be deposited by the Seller into the Income Account within two
(2) Business Days of receipt by Seller and, as to amounts so paid to the Seller for escrow
payments, into the Escrow Account. The Income Account and the Escrow Account shall be maintained
by the Seller with a bank satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Syndication Agent and
shall be subject to the control of the Administrative Agent. The Income Account and Escrow Account
may be interest bearing accounts if allowed or required by applicable law. At all times prior to a
Default or Event of
Default, the Seller may have full use of all Income and amounts on deposit in the Income
Account, subject to the provisions of Section 8.2.
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8.2 Income and Escrow Accounts. Prior to the initial Transaction hereunder the Seller shall
establish the Income Account and the Escrow Account and shall cause the bank holding such accounts
to enter into a control agreement with the Administrative Agent providing that upon notice from the
Administrative Agent no further withdrawals or payment orders from the Seller shall be honored and
only payment and withdrawal orders from the Administrative Agent or its designee shall be honored.
Prior to the occurrence of a Default or Event of Default and so long as Seller is also the
Servicer, Seller shall make payments from the Escrow Account of all appropriate amounts payable
with respect to each Purchased Loan for taxes, insurance and other purposes for which the funds are
paid into the Escrow Account. Subject to
Section 8.3, amounts on deposit in the Income
Account shall be used by the Seller to pay its fees as Servicer while it serves in such capacity,
and may be used to pay to the Administrative Agent amounts due under this Agreement for Margin
Deficit or Price Differential and for any other lawful purpose.
8.3 Income and Escrow Accounts after Default. Upon the occurrence and during the
continuation of a Default or Event of Default, the Seller shall have no right to direct withdrawal
or application of funds in the Income Account and the Escrow Account unless authorized to do so in
writing by the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent may cause all amounts on deposit in
the Income Account to be paid to it or its designee for application in the following order to pay
(i) accrued and unpaid Price Differential, (ii) costs, fees or other amounts due to the
Administrative Agent, Syndication Agent and Buyers under this Agreement, (iii) reduction of the
Repurchase Price of for Purchased Loans under Open Transactions, (iv) any other Obligations, and
(v) any excess over the Obligations, to the Seller. The Administrative Agent or its designee shall
direct payments from the Escrow Account for the purposes for which such funds are deposited into
the Escrow Account.
9.1.
Facility Fee. The Seller agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent (for Pro Rata
distribution to the Buyers) a facility fee (the “
Facility Fee”) in an amount equal to the sum of
(i) one eighth of one percent (0.125%) per annum of the Maximum Aggregate Commitment for the period
from the Effective Date until the date this Agreement terminates in accordance with its terms, plus
(ii) one eighth of one percent (0.125%) per annum of the daily outstanding Purchase Price of Wet
Loans, and, without duplication, Alt-A Agency Loans, Alt-A Non-Agency Loans, HELOCS and Second
Lien Loans and Agency-eligible Non-owner Occupied Loans for periods when the Price Differential for
such Wet Loans, Alt-A Agency Loans, Alt-A Non-Agency Loans, HELOCS and Second Lien Loans and
Agency-eligible Non-owner Occupied Loans is determined by reference to the LIBOR Rate or the
Balance Funded Rate, for each calendar month or portion thereof from the Effective Date until the
date this Agreement terminates in accordance with its terms. The Facility Fee shall be payable
monthly in arrears and shall be due no later than two(2) Business Days after Administrative Agent
bills the Seller therefor. If the Maximum Aggregate
Commitment shall be increased or decreased from time to time either pursuant to a provision of
this Agreement or by separate agreement between the Buyers and the Seller (excluding, however, any
change occurring as a result of or following the occurrence of a Default or an Event of Default, in
respect of which no adjustment of the Facility Fee shall be required), the amount of the Facility
Fee shall be adjusted as of the date of such change. The Facility Fee is compensation to the Buyers
for committing to make funds available for revolving purchases of Eligible Loans on the terms and
subject to the conditions of this Agreement, and is not compensation for the use or forbearance or
detention of money. Each calculation by the Administrative Agent of the amount of the Facility Fee
shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error.
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9.2.
Administrative Agent’s Fee. The Seller agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent such
administrative fee and arrangement fee (the “
Administrative Agent’s Fees”) in the amounts and on
the dates as are provided for in separate agreements between the Seller and the Administrative
Agent.
9.3.
Arranger’s Fee. The Seller agrees to pay to X.X. Xxxxxx Securities Inc., as the
Arranger, a fee (the “Arranger’s Fee”) in the amounts and on the dates provided in a separate
agreement between the Seller and the Arranger.
10.1.
Intent of the Parties. The parties intend that all Transactions hereunder be sales and
purchases (other than for accounting and tax purposes) and not loans; nonetheless, as a security
agreement under the UCC and as a security agreement or other arrangement or other credit
enhancement related to this Agreement and transactions hereunder as provided for in Section 101(47)
(A)(v) of the Bankruptcy Code, the Seller hereby pledges to the Administrative Agent for the
benefit of the Buyers as security for the performance by the Seller of the Obligations and hereby
grants, assigns and pledges to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Buyers a fully
perfected first priority security interest in all of the Purchased Loans and all Income and
proceeds from the Purchased Loans, including all of the property, rights and other items described
in the definition of “Mortgage Loan” in
Section 1.1 for each such Purchased Loan and all
rights to have, receive and retain the return or refund of funds transferred from any account with
the Administrative Agent to any title company, title agent, escrow agent or other Person for the
purpose of originating or funding a Mortgage Loan that did not close (for any reason) and that
would have been a Purchased Loan if it had closed (all funds so transferred continuously remain the
property of the Administrative Agent and the Buyers until disbursed by such agent to or for the
account of the related Customer upon the closing of his or her Mortgage Loan), and in all of the
following property:
(a) With respect to the Purchased Loans.
(1) all Purchased Loans Support;
(2) all Mortgage Premises related to the Purchased Loans
(3) all rights to deliver Purchased Loans to investors and other purchasers and all
proceeds resulting from the disposition of Purchased Loans pursuant thereto, including the
Seller’s right and entitlement to receive the entire purchase price paid for Purchased Loans
sold;
(4) all Hedge Agreements relating to or constituting any and all of the foregoing or
relating to the Obligations, including all rights to payment arising under such Hedge
Agreements;
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(5) all Servicing Rights in respect of any of the Purchased Loans; and
(6) all of the Seller’s rights now or hereafter existing in, to or under any MBS
secured by, created from or representing any interest in any of the Purchased Loans, whether
now owned or hereafter acquired by the Seller, and whether such MBS are evidenced by book
entry or certificate (Buyers’ Administrative Agent’s ownership interest and security
interest in each MBS created from, based on or backed by Purchased Loans shall automatically
exist in, attach to, cover and affect all of the Seller’s right, title and interest in that
MBS when issued and its proceeds and the Buyers’ Administrative Agent’s ownership interest
and security interest in the Purchased Loans from which such MBS was so created shall
automatically terminate and be released when such MBS is issued, subject to automatic
reinstatement if such issuance is voided or set aside by any court of competent
jurisdiction), all right to the payment of monies and non-cash distributions on account of
any of such MBS and all new, substituted and additional securities at any time issued with
respect thereto;
(1) all accounts, payment intangibles, general intangibles, instruments, documents
(including documents of title), chattel paper, contract rights and proceeds, whether now or
hereafter existing (including all of the Seller’s present and future rights to have and
receive interest and other compensation, whether or not yet accrued, earned, due or
payable), under or arising out of or relating to the Purchased Loans;
(2) all instruments, documents or writings evidencing any such accounts, payment
intangibles, general intangibles or proceeds or evidencing any monetary obligation under, or
security interest in, any of the Purchased Loans, all other papers delivered to the
Administrative Agent or the Custodian, and all other rights transferred to the
Administrative Agent, in respect of any of the Purchased Loans, including, without
limitation, the right to collect, have and receive all insurance proceeds (including, but
not limited to, casualty insurance, mortgage insurance, pool insurance and title insurance
proceeds) and condemnation awards or payments in lieu of condemnation which may be or become
payable in respect of the Mortgaged Premises securing or intended to secure
any Purchased Loan, and other personal property of whatever kind relating to any of the
Purchased Loans, in each case whether now existing or hereafter arising, accruing or
acquired;
(3) all security for or claims against others in respect of the Purchased Loans;
(4) all proceeds and rights to proceeds of any sale or other disposition of any or all
of the Purchased Loans; and
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(5) the nonexclusive right to use (in common with the Seller and any other secured
party that has a valid and enforceable security interest therein and that agrees that its
security interest is similarly nonexclusive) the Seller’s operating systems to manage and
administer the Purchased Loans and any of the related data and information described above,
or that otherwise relates to the Purchased Loans, together with the media on which the same
are stored to the extent stored with material information or data that relates to property
other than the Purchased Loans (tapes, discs, cards, drives, flash memory or any other kind
of physical or virtual data or information storage media or systems, and the Seller’s rights
to access the same, whether exclusive or nonexclusive, to the extent that such access rights
may lawfully be transferred or used by the Seller’s permittees), and any computer programs
that are owned by the Seller (or licensed to the Seller under licenses that may lawfully be
transferred or used by the Seller’s permittees) and that are used or useful to access,
organize, input, read, print or otherwise output and otherwise handle or use such
information and data;
(e)
Other Rights. all rights to have and receive any of the Purchased Loans described above,
all accessions or additions to and substitutions for any of such Purchased Loans, together with all
renewals and replacements of any of such Purchased Loans, all other rights and interests now owned
or hereafter acquired by the Debtor/Seller in, under or relating to any of such Purchased Loans or
referred to above and all proceeds of any of such Purchased Loans; and
(f)
Proceeds. all proceeds of all the foregoing.
The Seller agrees to do such things as applicable Law requires to maintain the security
interest of the Administrative Agent in all of the Purchased Loans with respect to all such
Transactions and all Income and proceeds from the Purchased Loans that are the subject matter of
such Transactions and all of the other collateral described above in this Section 10.1 as a
perfected first priority Lien at all times. The Seller hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent
to file any financing or continuation statements under the applicable Uniform Commercial Code to
perfect or continue such security interest in any and all applicable filing offices. The Seller
shall pay all customary fees and expenses associated with perfecting such security interest
including the costs of filing financing and continuation statements under the Uniform
Commercial Code and recording assignments of Mortgages as and when required by the
Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion.
11.1.
Seller May Substitute Other Mortgage Loans with Notice to and Approval of Administrative
Agent. So long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and no Margin Deficit exists
or occurs as a consequence thereof, subject to agreement with and acceptance by, and upon notice
to, the Administrative Agent, the Seller may substitute Mortgage Loans substantially similar to the
Purchased Loans for any Purchased Loans. If the Seller gives notice to the Administrative Agent at
or before 12:00 noon on a Business Day, the Administrative Agent may elect, by the close of
business on the Business Day notice
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is received or by the close of the next Business Day if notice
is given after 12:00 noon on such day, not to accept such substitution. If such substitution is
accepted by the Administrative Agent, such substitution shall be made by the Seller’s transfer to
Administrative Agent of such other Mortgage Loans on a servicing released basis and the
Administrative Agent’s transfer to the Seller of such Purchased Loans, and after such substitution,
the substituted Mortgage Loans shall be deemed to be Purchased Loans. If the Administrative Agent
elects not to accept such substitution, the Seller shall offer the Administrative Agent and the
Buyers the right to terminate the related Transaction.
11.2.
Payment to Accompany Substitution. If the Seller exercises its right to substitute or
terminate under this
Section 11, the Seller shall be obligated to pay to the Administrative
Agent (for Pro Rata distribution to the Buyers) by the close of the Business Day of such
substitution or termination, as the case may be, an amount equal to the sum of (x) actual cost
(including all customary fees, expenses and commissions) to the Administrative Agent and the Buyers
of (i) entering into replacement Transactions; (ii) entering into or terminating hedge transactions
and/or (iii) terminating Transactions or substituting securities in like transactions with third
parties in connection with or as a result of such substitution or termination, and (y) to the
extent the Administrative Agent determines not to enter into replacement Transactions, the loss
incurred by the Administrative Agent and the Buyers directly arising or resulting from such
substitution or termination. The foregoing amounts shall be solely determined and calculated by
the Administrative Agent and the applicable Buyers in good faith.
12.1.
Immediately Available Funds; Notice to Custodian. All transfers of funds hereunder
shall be in immediately available funds. All Eligible Loans transferred by one party hereto to any
other party shall be transferred by notice to the
Custodian to the effect that the Custodian is then holding for the benefit of the transferee
the related documents and assignment forms delivered to it under the Custody Agreement.
12.2.
Payments to the Administrative Agent. Except as otherwise specifically provided in this
Agreement, all payments required by this Agreement or the other Repurchase Documents to be made to
the Administrative Agent shall be paid to the Administrative Agent for deposit in the Repurchase
Settlement Account by no later than 1:00 p.m. on the day when due (funds received after the
applicable deadline shall be conclusively deemed received on the next following Business Day unless
the Administrative Agent, shall agree otherwise) and without set-off, counterclaim or deduction, in
lawful money of the United States of America in immediately available funds at the principal
Minneapolis branch of the Administrative Agent, at 000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000, or by
fed funds wire transfer to:
U.S. Bank National Association
000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
ABA number 000000000
Attention: Mortgage Banking Services
Account number. 104756234365
For Credit — DHI Mortgage Company, Ltd. Repurchase Settlement Account
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or at such other place as the Administrative Agent shall designate from time to time. Whenever any
payment to be made under this Agreement or any of the other Repurchase Documents shall be stated to
be due on a day that is not a Business Day, the due date for that payment shall be automatically
extended to the next day that is a Business Day, and (if applicable) Price Differential at the
applicable rate (determined in accordance with this Agreement) shall continue to accrue during the
period of such extension. Unless the Administrative Agent shall agree otherwise, funds received by
the Administrative Agent after 1:00 p.m. on a Business Day shall be deemed for all purposes to have
been paid by the Seller on the next succeeding Business Day.
12.3.
If Payment Not Made When Due. If and to the extent any payment is not made when due
under this Agreement or any of the other Repurchase Documents, the Seller authorizes the
Administrative Agent and each Buyer (for the Pro Rata account and benefit of all of the Buyers)
then or at any time thereafter to charge any amounts so due and unpaid against any or all of the
Seller’s accounts with the Administrative Agent or any of the Buyers;
provided that such
right to charge the Seller’s accounts shall not apply to any escrow, trust or other deposit
accounts designated as being held by the Seller on behalf of third party owners of the escrowed
funds other than Affiliates of the Seller. The Administrative Agent agrees to use reasonable
efforts to promptly advise the Seller of any charge made pursuant to this Section, but its failure
to do so will not affect the validity or collectability of such charge. Neither the Administrative
Agent nor any Buyer shall have any obligation to charge any Seller account, merely the right to do
so.
12.4.
Payments Valid and Effective. Each payment received by the Administrative Agent in
accordance with this Agreement is valid and effective to satisfy and discharge the Seller’s
liability under the Repurchase Documents to the extent of the payment.
12.5.
Pro Rata Distribution of Payments. The Administrative Agent shall distribute all
payments of Repurchase Price (whether voluntary or involuntary and from whatever source) received
to the Buyers Pro Rata with their respective ownership interests in the Purchased Loans as of the
date the payment is credited in accordance with this Agreement. The distribution from the
Administrative Agent to each Buyer shall be made by the Administrative Agent’s initiating a federal
funds wire transfer by 3:00 p.m. on the Business Day when such funds were received, in immediately
available funds directly to such Buyer or to such account at another financial institution as is
designated from time to time by such Buyer in writing. If the Administrative Agent shall fail or
refuse to so make the distribution on the same Business Day as the payment was received, then, as
agreed full and adequate compensation therefor, the Administrative Agent shall pay the affected
Buyer(s) interest on the undistributed funds at the Federal Funds Rate.
All documents relating to Purchased Loans in the possession of the Seller or its designee
(including its agent, or any subservicer) shall be segregated from other documents and securities
in its or its designee’s possession and shall be identified as being owned by the Buyers and held
by the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Buyers (which shall be referenced in the relevant
books and records as “U.S. Bank National Association, Administrative Agent”) and subject to this
Agreement. Segregation may be accomplished by appropriate identification of ownership on the books
and records of the holder of such documents, including MERS, a documents custodian, a financial or
securities intermediary or a clearing corporation. All of
Seller’s interest in the Purchased Loans shall pass to the Buyers on the Purchase Date and nothing in this Agreement
shall preclude the Administrative Agent and the Buyers, in each case with the Buyers’ consent, from
engaging with others in repurchase transactions with the Purchased Loans or otherwise selling,
transferring, or pledging or hypothecating, the Purchased Loans, but no such transaction shall
relieve the Buyers of their obligations to transfer Purchased Loans to the Seller pursuant to
Section 3 or 18, or of the Administrative Agent’s obligation to credit or pay
Income to, or apply Income to the obligations of, the Seller pursuant to Section 8.
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14.1.
Initial Purchase. The obligations of the Buyers (and the Administrative Agent on the
Buyers’ behalf) to make the initial purchase under this Agreement are subject to the Seller’s
fulfillment of the following conditions precedent:
(a) the Administrative Agent shall have received (or be satisfied that it will receive
by such deadline as the Administrative Agent shall specify) the following, all of which must
be satisfactory in form and content to the Administrative Agent:
(1) this Agreement duly executed by the parties;
(2) UCC financing statements for the Purchased Loans covered by this Agreement,
each duly authorized by the Seller;
(3) a current UCC search report of a UCC filings search in the office of the
Secretary of State of the State of Texas;
(4) the Custody Agreement duly executed by the Administrative Agent, the Seller
and the Custodian;
(5) copies of the Seller’s (i) limited partnership agreement, (ii) certificate
of limited partnership issued by the state of Texas, (iii) articles of incorporation
certified by the Secretary of State of the State of the Seller’s General Partner and
(ii) bylaws or regulations and all amendments certified by its corporate secretary
or assistant secretary, as well as any other information required by Section 326 of
the USA Patriot Act or necessary for the Administrative Agent and the Buyers to
verify the identity of the Seller as required by Section 326 of the USA Patriot Act
in accordance with the requirements summarized in the notice given in Section
37;
(6) the Electronic Tracking Agreement duly executed by the Seller, MERS,
MERSCorp., Inc. and the Administrative Agent.
(7) evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (i) as to the
due filing and recording in all appropriate offices of all financing statements,
(ii) if there are any Purchased Loans that require the Buyers’ interest to be noted
by book entry, that such book entry has been duly made and (iii) if there is any
“investment property” under the UCC of the State of
New York or other applicable
Law, that such instruments as are necessary to give the
Administrative Agent “control” of such investment property have been duly
executed by the Seller and the relevant securities intermediary.
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(8) a certificate of existence or authority and good standing for the Seller
issued by the Secretary of State of Texas;
(9) original resolutions of the Seller’s general partner’s board of directors,
certified as of the initial Purchase Date by the Seller’s general partner’s
corporate secretary or assistant secretary or other authorized officer, authorizing
the execution, delivery and performance by the Seller of this Agreement, the Custody
Agreement and all other Repurchase Documents to be delivered by the Seller pursuant
to this Agreement;
(10) a certificate of the Seller’s general partner’s corporate secretary or
assistant secretary or other authorized officer as to (i) the incumbency of the
officers of the Seller executing this Agreement, the Custody Agreement, each
applicable Request/Confirmation and all other Repurchase Documents executed or to be
executed by or on behalf of the Seller and (ii) the authenticity of their
signatures, and specimens of their signatures shall be included in such certificate
or set forth on an exhibit attached to it, (the Administrative Agent, the Buyers and
the Custodian shall be entitled to rely on that certificate until the Seller has
furnished a new certificate to the Administrative Agent);
(11) an Officer’s Certificate for the Seller dated the initial Purchase Date
and certifying truthfully that, (i) after giving effect to the Transaction to occur
on that Purchase Date, no Default or Event of Default will exist, (ii) all of the
representations and warranties made by the Seller in the Repurchase Documents are
true and correct as of the Effective Date and (iii) there has been no material
adverse change since the Statement Date in any of the Central Elements in respect of
the Seller or any of its Subsidiaries;
(12) copies of an errors and omissions insurance policy or mortgage impairment
insurance policy and blanket bond coverage policy, or certificates in lieu of
policies, providing such insurance coverage as is customary for members of the
Seller’s industry;
(13) a favorable written opinion of counsel to the Seller dated on or before
the initial Purchase Date, addressed to the Administrative Agent and the Buyers and
in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and its
legal counsel (a form containing opinions required to be included therein are set
forth in Exhibit B), specifically stating that the Administrative Agent, the
Buyers and any person or entity that purchases the Eligible Loans from the Buyers
can rely on it; and
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(14) payment to the Administrative Agent, the Arranger or the Custodian, as
applicable, of the Facility Fee, the Administrative Agent’s Fee, the Arranger’s Fee,
the Custodian’s Fee and all other fees and expenses (including the
disbursements and reasonable fees of the Administrative Agent’s attorneys) of
the Administrative Agent and the Buyers payable by Seller pursuant to Section
9 accrued and billed for to the date of the Seller’s execution and delivery of
this Agreement.
(15) control agreements in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent establishing its control of the Income Account, Escrow Account,
Operating Account, Repurchase Settlement Account and the Funding Account.
(b) All directors and officers of the Seller’s general partner, all partners of the
Seller and all Affiliates of the Seller or any of its Subsidiaries, to whom or which the
Seller shall be indebted either for borrowed money or for any other obligation of Fifty
Thousand Dollars ($50,000) or more as of the date of this Agreement, excluding salary, bonus
or other compensation obligations, shall have caused such Debt to be Qualified Subordinated
Debt, by executing and causing to be delivered to the Administrative Agent a Subordination
Agreement and taking all other steps, if any, required to cause such Debt to be Qualified
Subordinated Debt, and the corporate secretary of the Seller shall have certified each such
Subordination Agreement executed to satisfy the requirements of this Section 14.1(b)
to be true, complete and in full force and effect as of the date of the initial purchase.
14.2.
Each Purchase. The obligations of the Buyers (and the Administrative Agent on the
Buyers’ behalf) to make any purchase under this Agreement are also subject to the satisfaction, as
of each Purchase Date, of the following additional conditions precedent:
(a) The Seller shall have delivered (i) to the Administrative Agent a
Request/Confirmation and its related Mortgage Loan Transmission File and (ii) to the
Custodian, such Mortgage Loan Transmission Files for the new Loans to be purchased.
(b) Unless the requested Transaction is for the purchase of only Wet Loans, the
Custodian shall have issued its Custodian’s Exception Report (as defined in the Custody
Agreement) relating to the Purchased Loans then owned by the Buyers — the Administrative
Agent agrees that, for so long as it is the Custodian, it will not unreasonably withhold or
delay issuing any such Custodian’s Exception Report.
(c) The representations and warranties of the Seller contained in this Agreement and
the other Repurchase Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects as if made
on and as of each Purchase Date unless specifically stated to relate to an earlier date.
(d) The Seller shall have performed all agreements to be performed by it under this
Agreement, the Custody Agreement and all other Repurchase Documents, as well as under all
Investor Commitments that the Seller has represented to the Administrative Agent and the
Buyers cover any of the Purchased Loans, and after the requested Transaction shall have been
executed, no Default or Event of Default will exist
that the Administrative Agent has not declared in writing to have been waived or cured,
nor will any default exist under any such Investor Commitments.
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(e) The Seller shall not have incurred any material liabilities, direct or contingent,
other than in the ordinary course of its business, and no liabilities (whether or not in the
ordinary course of business) that adversely and materially affect any of the Central
Elements in respect of the Seller or any of its Subsidiaries since the dates of the Seller’s
Financial Statements most recently theretofore delivered to the Buyers.
(f) The Administrative Agent shall have received from counsel for the Seller, if
requested by the Administrative Agent, an updated favorable opinion or opinions, in form and
substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent addressed to the Buyers and the
Administrative Agent and dated as of the relevant Purchase Date, covering and updating such
matters that were originally addressed in the opinion issued pursuant to Section
14.1(a)(13) as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request.
(g) The Seller shall have paid the Facility Fee and the Administrative Agent’s Fee then
due and payable in accordance with Section 9.1 and Section 9.2 and the
Custodian’s Fee pursuant to the Custody Agreement.
(h) Prior to the execution of the requested Transaction, no Default or Event of Default
shall have occurred or will occur after giving effect to such Transaction, that the
Administrative Agent has not declared in writing to have been waived or cured.
(i) The requested Transaction will not result in the violation of any applicable Law.
(j) The Administrative Agent and each Buyer shall have received such other documents,
if any, as shall be specified by the Administrative Agent or any Buyer.
(k) No Margin Deficit exists or will exist after giving effect to such Transaction.
(l) The Termination Date shall not have occurred.
(m) After giving effect to such Transaction, none of the sublimits set forth in
Section 4.2 shall be exceeded.
(n) For any Transaction involving a Wet Loan, (i) unless the closing title agency or
attorney has previously signed an agreement with the Administrative Agent acknowledging
funds received from the Administrative Agent for the purchase of such Wet Loan are held by
such title agency or attorney in trust for and as the property of the Administrative Agent
until such Wet Loan is closed and Purchased by the Administrative Agent for the benefit of
the Buyers and that any such funds so received shall be returned to the Administrative Agent
for the benefit of the Buyers if the Mortgage Loan that is proposed to be so purchased as a
Wet Loan does not close on the proposed Purchase Date, (ii) the Seller shall have delivered
to such closing title agency or attorney an instruction letter stating that funds received
from the Administrative Agent for the
purchase of such Wet Loan are held by such title agency or attorney in trust for and as
the property of the Administrative Agent until such Wet Loan is closed and Purchased by the
Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Buyers and that any such funds so received shall
be returned to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Buyers if the Mortgage Loan
that is proposed to be so purchased as a Wet Loan does not close on the proposed Purchase
Date
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15.1. Buyers, Administrative Agent and Seller Representations. The Buyers, the Administrative
Agent and Seller each represents and warrants, and shall on and as of the Purchase Date of any
Transaction be deemed to represent and warrant, to the other that:
(a) it is duly authorized to execute and deliver this Agreement, to enter into the
Transactions and to perform its obligations hereunder and has taken all necessary action to
authorize such execution, delivery and performance;
(b) it will engage in such Transactions as principal (or, in the case of the
Administrative Agent, and in respect of any other party if agreed in writing in advance of
any Transaction by the other parties hereto, as Administrative Agent for a disclosed
principal);
(c) the person signing this Agreement on its behalf is duly authorized to do so on its
behalf (or on behalf of any such disclosed principal);
(d) it has obtained all authorizations of any governmental body required in connection
with this Agreement and the Transactions and such authorizations are in full force and
effect; and
(e) the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the Transactions
hereunder will not violate any law, ordinance, charter, by-law or rule applicable to it or
any agreement by which it is bound or by which any of its assets are affected.
15.2. Additional Seller Representations. With regard to:
(i) Purchased Loans, on and as of the Purchase Date of any Transaction;
(ii) Eligible Loans substituted pursuant to Section 11, on and as of the date
of their substitution; and
(iii) Additional Purchased Loans submitted pursuant to Section 6.1, on and as
of the date of their transfer to the Custodian
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the Seller hereby represents and warrants to the Buyers and the Administrative Agent, as follows:
(a) Documents Genuine. The documents delivered or disclosed by the Seller to the
Administrative Agent or the Buyers pursuant to this Agreement or the Custody Agreement are
either original documents or genuine and true copies thereof.
(b) No Securities to be Acquired with Purchased Loan Sale Proceeds. None of the
Purchase Price for any Eligible Loan will be used either directly or indirectly to acquire
any security, as that term is defined in Regulation T, and the Seller has not taken any
action that might cause any Transaction to violate any regulation of the Federal Reserve
Board.
(c) Organization; Good Standing; Subsidiaries. The Seller is a limited partnership
duly formed, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Texas, and
each of the Seller’s Subsidiaries is a corporation, partnership or limited liability company
duly formed, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its
incorporation, formation or organization. The Seller has furnished to the Administrative
Agent a true and complete copy of its Organizational Documents and those of the General
Partner as in effect as of the date of this Agreement, including all amendments thereto, and
agrees to furnish to the Administrative Agent a true and complete copy of any amendment
adopted after the Effective Date promptly after it is adopted. The Seller and its
Subsidiaries each has the full legal power and authority to own its properties and to carry
on its business as currently conducted and each is duly qualified to do business as a
limited partnership or foreign corporation or (in the case of any limited liability company
Subsidiaries) limited liability company and in good standing in each jurisdiction in which
the ownership of its property or the transaction of its business makes such qualification
necessary, except in jurisdictions, if any, where a failure to be qualified, licensed or in
good standing could not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on any of
the Central Elements in respect of the Seller or any of its Subsidiaries. The Seller does
not have any Subsidiaries except as set forth on Exhibit D or as have been disclosed
by the Seller to the Administrative Agent in writing after the Effective Date. Exhibit
D states the name of each such Subsidiary as of the Effective Date, place of
organization, each state in which it is qualified as a foreign entity and the percentage
ownership of the capital stock or other indicia of equity of each such Subsidiary by the
Seller.
(d) Authorization and Enforceability. The Seller has the power and authority to
execute, deliver and perform this Agreement, the Custody Agreement and all other Repurchase
Documents to which it is a party or in which it joins or has joined. The execution,
delivery and performance by the Seller of this Agreement, the Custody Agreement and all
other Repurchase Documents to which it is a party have each been duly and validly authorized
by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Seller (none of which has been modified
or rescinded, and all of which are in full force and effect) and do not and will not
(i) conflict with or violate any Legal Requirement, (ii) conflict with or violate the
Organizational Documents of the Seller, (iii) conflict with or result in a breach of or
constitute a default under any agreement, instrument or
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indenture binding on the Seller or (iv) require any consent under any such agreement, instrument or indenture, where the
conflict, violation, breach, default or nonconsent could reasonably be expected to have a
material adverse effect on any of the Central Elements
in respect of the Seller or any of its Subsidiaries, or result in the creation of any
Lien upon any property or assets of the Seller, or result in or permit the acceleration of
any debt of the Seller pursuant to any agreement, instrument or indenture to which the
Seller is a party or by which the Seller or its property may be bound or affected. This
Agreement, the Custody Agreement and all other Repurchase Documents constitute the legal,
valid, and binding obligations of the Seller enforceable in accordance with their respective
terms, except as limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or other such laws affecting the
enforcement of creditors’ rights generally.
(e) Approvals. Neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Custody
Agreement and all other Repurchase Documents nor the performance of the Seller’s obligations
under such Repurchase Documents requires any license, consent, approval or other action of
any state or federal agency or governmental or regulatory authority other than (i) those
that have been obtained or will be obtained by the time required and which remain in full
force and effect, (ii) those for which the Seller’s failure to obtain them could not
reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on any of the Central Elements in
respect of the Seller or any of its Subsidiaries and (iii) the filing of any financing
statements.
(f) Financial Condition. The consolidated balance sheet of the Seller (and, to the
extent applicable, the Seller’s consolidated Subsidiaries) and the related statements of
income, changes in stockholders’ equity and cash flows (“Financial Statements”) for the
fiscal year ended on the Statement Date (the “Statement Date Financial Statements”)
heretofore furnished to the Administrative Agent and the Buyers, fairly present the
financial condition of the Seller (and Seller’s consolidated Subsidiaries) as of the
Statement Date and the results of their operations for the fiscal period ended on the
Statement Date. On the Statement Date, the Seller did not have either any known material
liabilities, direct or indirect, fixed or contingent, matured or unmatured, other than the
contingent liabilities (if any) set forth on Schedule 15.2(f) and contingent
liability on endorsements of negotiable instruments for deposit or collection in the
ordinary course of business, or any known material liabilities for sales, long-term leases
or unusual forward or long-term commitments, which are not disclosed by the Statement Date
Financial Statements or reserved against in them or that have not been otherwise disclosed
to the Buyer in writing. Each of the Seller and each of its Subsidiaries is Solvent, and
since the Statement Date, (i) there has been no material adverse change in any of the
Central Elements in respect of the Seller or any of its Subsidiaries, nor is the Seller
aware of any state of facts which (with or without notice, the lapse of time or both) would
or could reasonably be expected to result in any such material adverse change, and
(ii) there have been no unrealized or anticipated losses from any loans, advances or other
commitments of the Seller which have resulted in a material adverse change in the Central
Elements in respect of the Seller or any of its Subsidiaries, except for the material
adverse changes and losses (if any) that are summarized in Schedule 15.2(f).
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(g) Litigation. Except as disclosed on Schedule 15.2(g) or except as disclosed
in the Statement Date Financial Statements or the most recent Financial Statements furnished
to the Administrative Agent and the Buyers (whichever is more current), there are no
actions, claims, suits or proceedings pending, or to the knowledge of the Seller,
threatened or reasonably anticipated against or affecting the Seller or any of its
Subsidiaries in any court, before any other Governmental Authority or before any arbitrator
or in any other dispute resolution forum which, if adversely determined, could reasonably be
expected to result in a material adverse effect on any of the Central Elements in respect of
the Seller or any of its Subsidiaries.
(h) Licensing. The Seller, and any subservicer of its Mortgage Loans are duly
registered as mortgage lenders and servicers in each state in which Mortgage Loans have been
or are from time to time originated, to the extent such registration is required by any
applicable Legal Requirement, except where the failure to register could not reasonably be
expected to result in a material adverse effect on any of the Central Elements in respect of
the Seller or any of its Subsidiaries.
(i) Compliance with Applicable Laws. Neither the Seller nor any of its Subsidiaries is
in violation of any provision of any law, or any judgment, award, rule, regulation, order,
decree, writ or injunction of any court, other Governmental Authority or public regulatory
body that could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on any of the
Central Elements in respect of the Seller or any of its Subsidiaries.
(j) Regulation U. The Seller is not engaged principally, or as one of its important
activities, in the business of extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying
Margin Stock, and no part of the proceeds of any Transactions directly or indirectly made
available to or received by the Seller or for its account will be used, directly or
indirectly, for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any Margin Stock or to extend credit
to others for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any Margin Stock or for the purpose of
reducing or retiring any debt which was originally incurred to purchase or carry any Margin
Stock or to extend credit to others for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any Margin
Stock or which would constitute this transaction a “purpose credit” within the meaning of
Regulation U, as now or hereafter in effect.
(k) Investment Company Act. The Seller is not subject to the rules governing an
“investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
(l) Payment of Taxes. All tax returns required to be filed by the Seller and each
Subsidiary in any jurisdiction have been filed or extended and all taxes, assessments, fees
and other governmental charges upon the Seller and each Subsidiary or upon any of its
properties, income or franchises have been paid prior to the time that such taxes could give
rise to a Lien thereon, unless protested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and with
respect to which reserves in conformity with GAAP have been established on the books of the
Seller or such Subsidiary. Neither the Seller nor any Subsidiary has any knowledge of any
proposed tax assessment against the Seller or any Subsidiary.
(m) Custody Agreement. The Custody Agreement is or when executed will be currently in
full force and effect and the Seller is or when executed will be in compliance with all of
its obligations, covenants or conditions contained in the Custody Agreement.
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(n) Agreements. Neither the Seller nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to any
agreement, instrument or indenture or subject to any restriction, in each case materially
and adversely affecting any of the Central Elements in respect of the Seller or any of its
Subsidiaries except as disclosed in (i) the Statement Date Financial Statements, or
(ii) Schedule 15.2(f). Neither the Seller nor any Subsidiary is in default in the
performance, observance or fulfillment of any of its obligations, covenants or conditions
contained in any agreement, instrument or indenture that could reasonably be expected to
have a material adverse effect on any of the Central Elements in respect of the Seller or
any of its Subsidiaries. No holder of the Seller’s or any such Subsidiary’s debt or other
obligations has given notice of any asserted default that could reasonably be expected to
have a material adverse effect on any of the Central Elements in respect of the Seller or
any of its Subsidiaries. No liquidation or dissolution of the Seller is pending or, to the
Seller’s knowledge, threatened and no liquidation or dissolution of any Subsidiary is
pending or threatened that could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on
any of the Central Elements in respect of the Seller or any of its Subsidiaries. No
receivership, insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization or other similar proceedings relative
to the Seller or any of its properties is pending, or to the Seller’s knowledge, threatened.
No receivership, insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization or other similar proceedings
relative to any Subsidiary of the Seller or any of its properties is pending, or to the
Seller’s knowledge, threatened that could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse
effect on any of the Central Elements in respect of the Seller or any of its Subsidiaries.
(o) Title to Properties. The Seller and each of its Subsidiaries has good, valid,
insurable (in the case of real property) and marketable title to all of its material
Properties and assets (whether real or personal, tangible or intangible) that are reflected
on or referred to in the Statement Date Financial Statements or in the more current
Financial Statements (if any) most recently furnished to the Buyer after the Effective Date,
except for such properties and assets as have been disposed of since the date of such
current Financial Statements either in the ordinary course of business or because they were
no longer used or useful in the conduct of its business, and all such Properties and assets
are free and clear of all Liens except for (i) the lien of current (nondelinquent) real and
personal property taxes and assessments, (ii) covenants, conditions and restrictions, rights
of way, easements and other matters to which like properties are commonly subject that do
not materially interfere with the use of the property as it is currently being used and
(iii) such other Liens, if any, as are disclosed in such Financial Statements or on
Schedule 15.2 (o) and Permitted Encumbrances.
(p) The Seller’s Address. The Seller’s chief executive office and principal place of
business are at 00000 Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx X-000, Xxxxxx, XX 00000 or at such other
address as shall have been set forth in a written notice to the Administrative Agent given
subsequent to the Effective Date and at least ten (10) Business Days before such notice’s
effective date.
(q) ERISA. The Seller does not maintain any ERISA Plans and shall not adopt or agree
to maintain or contribute to an ERISA Plan. The Seller shall promptly notify Administrative
Agent and each Buyer in writing in the event an ERISA Affiliate adopts
an ERISA Plan. The Seller is not an employer under any Multiemployer Plan or any other
Plan subject to Title IV of ERISA.
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(r) Commissions. Neither Seller nor any of its Affiliates have dealt with any broker,
investment banker, Administrative Agent or other person, except for the Administrative Agent
and the Buyers, who may be entitled to any commissions or compensation in connection with
the sale of Purchased Loans pursuant to this Agreement.
(s) Full Disclosure. Each material fact or condition relating to the Repurchase
Documents and the Central Elements has been disclosed in writing to the Administrative Agent
and the Syndication Agent. All information previously furnished by the Seller and its
Restricted Subsidiaries to the Administrative Agent and the Syndication Agent in connection
with the Repurchase Documents was and all information furnished in the future by the Seller
and its Restricted Subsidiaries to the Administrative Agent, Syndication Agent or Buyers
will be true and accurate in all material respects or based on reasonable estimates on the
date the information is stated or certified. To the best knowledge of the Seller, neither
the financial statements referred to in Section 15.2(f) , nor any
Request/Confirmation, market analysis report, officer’s certificate or any other report or
statement delivered by the Seller and its Restricted Subsidiaries to the Administrative
Agent and Syndication Agent in connection with this Agreement, contains any untrue statement
of material fact.
15.4.
Survival. All representations and warranties by the Seller shall survive delivery of
the Repurchase Documents and the sales of the Purchased Loans, and any investigation at any time
made by or on behalf of the Buyers or the Administrative Agent shall not diminish any Buyer’s or
the Administrative Agent’s right to rely on them.
The Seller agrees that, for so long as the Commitments are outstanding or either (i) there are
any Purchased Loans that have not been repurchased by the Seller or (ii) any of the Seller’s
Obligations remain to be paid or performed under this Agreement or any of the other Repurchase
Documents:
16.1.
Weekly Market Analysis Report. It will provide, weekly no later than the fourth
Business Day of each week, or more frequently if requested by the Administrative Agent or
Syndication Agent, a market analysis report in the form of a loan tape submitted electronically
providing the information set forth on, and substantially in the format of,
Schedule
16.1.
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(a) The Seller will not knowingly directly or indirectly use any of the proceeds from
the sale of the Purchased Loans, or lend, contribute or otherwise make
available any such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or
entity, for the purpose of financing the activities of any person or entity that is subject
to sanctions under any program administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the
United States Department of the Treasury, including those implemented by regulations
codified in Subtitle B, Chapter V, of Title 31, Code of Federal Regulations.
(b) The Seller will not (i) be or become subject at any time to any law, regulation or
list of any government agency (including the U.S. Office of Foreign Asset Control list) that
prohibits or limits the Buyers or the Administrative Agent from entering into any
Transaction with Seller or from otherwise conducting business with Seller, or (ii) fail to
provide documentary and other evidence of the Seller’s identity as may be requested by the
Administrative Agent or any Buyer at any time to enable the Administrative Agent and Buyers
to verify the Seller’s identity or to comply with any applicable law or regulation,
including Section 326 of the USA Patriot Act of 2001, 31 U.S.C. Section 5318.
16.3.
Financial Statements. The Seller will deliver to the Administrative Agent who will post
the same for viewing by all Buyers on a secure internet site within one Business Day of receipt:
(a) As soon as available and in any event within thirty (30) days after the end of each
month (including each quarter end and year end month), Financial Statements for the Seller
and its consolidated Subsidiaries for the month just ended, all in reasonable detail, and
certified by its chief financial officer that, such Financial Statements were prepared in
accordance with GAAP and present fairly in all material respects the Seller’s and its
consolidated Subsidiaries’ financial condition as of the date thereof and the results of
their operations for the period covered, subject, however, to adjustments required by FAS-91
and normal year-end audit adjustments and the omission of notes to the Financial Statements.
(b) As soon as available and in any event within ninety (90) days after the close of
each of its fiscal years, audited consolidated and consolidating Financial Statements for
the Seller and its consolidated Subsidiaries for such year, and the related balance sheet as
at the end of such year (setting forth in comparative form the corresponding figures as of
the end of and for the preceding fiscal year), all in reasonable detail, prepared in
accordance with GAAP and with all notes, and accompanied by:
(1) a report and clean and unqualified opinion of a firm of independent
certified public accountants of recognized standing selected by the Seller and
acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Syndication Agent (as of the
Effective Date, Ernst & Young is acceptable to the Administrative Agent and
Syndication Agent), stating that such accountants have audited such Financial
Statements in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and that, in
their opinion, such Financial Statements present fairly, in all material respects,
the consolidated financial condition of the Seller and its consolidated Subsidiaries
as of the date thereof and the consolidated results of its operations and cash flows
for the periods covered thereby in conformity with GAAP;
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(2) any management letters, management reports or other supplementary comments
or reports delivered in conjunction with the report and opinion in Section
16.3(b)(1) by such accountants to management or the board of directors of the
Seller; and
(3) a certificate signed by the chief financial officer of the Seller stating
that said Financial Statements fairly present the consolidated financial condition
and results of operations (for Seller and its consolidated Subsidiaries) as at the
end of, and for, such year.
The Seller also agrees to provide to the Administrative Agent and the Buyers such other information
related to such annual reports or concerning the Seller’s finances or operations as the
Administrative Agent or any Buyer may from time to time reasonably request.
(c)
Chief Financial Officer’s Certificate. Together with each of the monthly and
annual Financial Statements required by Sections 16.3(a), and 16.3(b) above, a certificate
of the Seller’s chief financial officer in the form of Exhibit C, among other things,
(i) setting forth in reasonable detail all calculations necessary to show whether the Seller
is in compliance with the requirements of Section 17.12., 17.13, 17.14 and 17.15 of this
Agreement or, if the Seller is not in compliance, showing the extent of noncompliance and
specifying the period of noncompliance and what actions the Seller proposes to take with
respect thereto and (ii) stating that the terms of this Agreement have been reviewed by such
officer or under his or her supervision, and that he or she has made or caused to be made
under his or her supervision, a review in reasonable detail of the transactions and the
condition of the Seller during the accounting period covered by such Financial Statements
and that such review does not disclose the existence during or at the end of such accounting
period and that such chief financial officer does not have knowledge of the existence as of
the date of the Officer’s Certificate of any Event of Default or Default or, if any Event of
Default or Default existed or exists, specifying the nature and period of its existence and
what action the Seller has taken, is taking and proposes to take with respect to it.
16.4.
Financial Statements Will Be Accurate. The Seller agrees that all Financial Statements
and reports of auditors furnished to the Administrative Agent and the Buyers will be prepared in
accordance with GAAP, applied on a basis consistent with that applied in preparing the Statement
Date Financial Statements as at the date thereof and for the period then ended, subject, however
for Financial Statements other than year-end statements to year-end audit adjustments and the
omission of footnotes.
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16.5.
Other Reports. The Seller will promptly furnish to the Administrative Agent from time
to time information regarding the business and affairs of the Seller (and, upon the written request
of any Buyer, such information requested by such Buyer), including the following and such other
information as the Administrative Agent may from time to time reasonably request (each report
required must be signed by a duly authorized officer of the Seller, and the Administrative Agent
and the Buyers will have no responsibility to verify or track any of the items referenced or
conclusions stated in such reports or to verify the authority of its signer):
(a) A report of Purchased Loans prepaid in full, on or before one (1) Business Day
after prepayment of any one or more Purchased Loans is reported to the Seller internally or
by any Servicer or the Seller’s subservicer (and the Seller, as applicable, will require
each such Servicer and subservicer to promptly make such reports to the Seller, as
applicable).
(b) Weekly no later than the fourth Business Day of each week, a report summarizing the
amount advanced and the amount remaining available for each HELOC purchased by the
Administrative Agent (as Administrative Agent and representative of the Buyers).
(c) Monthly with the certificate required by Section 16.3(c), a report attached to
Exhibit C summarizing (i) notices received by the Seller requesting or demanding that the
Seller repurchase (or pay indemnity or other compensation in respect of) Mortgage Loans
previously sold or otherwise disposed of by the Seller to any investor or other Person
pursuant to any express or implied repurchase or indemnity obligation (whether absolute or
contingent and whether or not the Seller is contesting or intends to contest such request or
demand) and (ii) actual repurchase and indemnity payments made by Seller to any Person.
(d) Monthly with the certificate required under Section 16.3(c), a Purchased Loans
Curtailment Report.
(e) Upon request, copies of any changed pages to the Seller’s Underwriting Guidelines
to update the copies of the Seller’s Underwriting Guidelines previously furnished to the
Administrative Agent.
(f) Upon request, a summary report of the Seller’s then-outstanding commitments to sell
Mortgage Loans to investors.
(g) If requested by the Administrative Agent or Syndication Agent, a summary of the
Seller’s other repurchase, reverse repurchase or asset warehousing facilities. Such report
shall be in form and format reasonably acceptable to the requesting party and include the
total amount available, amount outstanding and maturity date of each of such facilities, the
counterparties and whether such facilities are committed or uncommitted.
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(h) Such other reports by the Seller in respect of the Purchased Loans, in such detail
and at such times as the Administrative Agent or any Buyer in its reasonable discretion may
request at any time or from time to time.
(i) As soon as available and in any event within one day after filing or posting
on-line, notice of (i) all press releases issued by the Seller or any of its Subsidiaries,
(ii) all regular or periodic financial reports, and copies of all extraordinary or
non-routine filings, if any, that shall be filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission or any successor agency by or on behalf of the Seller or any of its Subsidiaries
(including Single-purpose Finance Subsidiaries) and (iii) all such filings relating to any
securities that are or are to be based on, backed by or created from any Purchased Loans and
which filings are made by or in respect of the Seller or any of its Subsidiaries.
16.6.
Maintain Existence and Statuses; Conduct of Business. The Seller agrees to preserve and
maintain its existence in good standing and all of its rights, privileges, licenses and franchises
necessary or desirable in the normal conduct of its business except where the failure to maintain
such rights, privileges, licenses or franchises could not reasonably be expected to have a material
adverse effect on any of the Central Elements in respect of the Seller or any of its Subsidiaries,
and the Seller will continue in the residential mortgage lending business as its principal and core
business.
16.7.
Compliance with Applicable Laws. The Seller and its Subsidiaries will comply with all
applicable Legal Requirements, the breach of which could reasonably be expected to materially
adversely affect any of the Central Elements with respect to the Seller and its Subsidiaries, taken
as a whole, except where contested in good faith.
(a) The Seller agrees to permit the Administrative Agent, the Syndication Agent and the
Buyers, subject to the provisions of Section 16.9, to perform continuing loan level due
diligence reviews with respect to the Purchased Loans, for purposes of verifying compliance
with the representations, warranties and specifications made in this Agreement or otherwise,
and the Seller agrees that upon reasonable prior notice to the Seller, the Administrative
Agent, the Syndication Agent or their authorized representatives will be permitted timely
and reasonable access to examine, inspect, and make copies and extracts of, the related
mortgage loan files and any and all documents, records, agreements, instruments or
information relating to such Purchased Loans in the possession or under the control of the
Seller, any Servicer or the Custodian. The Seller also shall make available to the
Administrative Agent and the Syndication Agent a knowledgeable financial
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or accounting
officer for the purpose of answering questions respecting the mortgage loan files and the
Purchased Loans. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Seller acknowledges
that the Buyers may purchase Eligible Loans from the Seller based solely upon the
information provided by the Seller to the Administrative Agent in the Mortgage Loan
Transmission File and the representations, warranties and covenants contained in this
Agreement, and that the Administrative Agent and the Syndication Agent, at their option,
have the right at any time with reasonable prior notice to conduct a partial or complete due diligence review
on some or all of the Purchased Loans prior to or following their purchase in a Transaction,
including ordering new credit reports and new appraisals on any property securing any
Purchased Loan and otherwise re-generating the information used to originate such Purchased
Loan. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary herein regarding reasonable prior
notice, if an Event of Default in respect of the Seller shall have occurred and be
continuing, then the Administrative Agent and the Syndication Agent, upon notice to the
Seller, shall have the right to immediate access and review of the Seller and the loan
information contemplated in this Section 16.8(a), provided that to the extent that the
Seller does not have possession of such loan information, the Seller shall cause the
applicable Servicer or subservicer to provide the Administrative Agent and the Syndication
Agent with access and review of such loan information within a reasonable period of time,
but not to exceed any prior notification time provided under the related Servicing Agreement
with such Servicer or subservicer. The Administrative Agent and the Syndication Agent may
conduct the due diligence review of such Purchased Loans itself or engage a third party
underwriter selected by the Administrative Agent or Syndication Agent to perform such
review. The Seller agrees to, and to cause any relevant Servicer and its subservicer to,
cooperate with the Administrative Agent, the Syndication Agent and any third party
underwriter in connection with such due diligence review, including providing the
Administrative Agent, the Syndication Agent and any third party underwriter with access to
any and all documents, records, agreements, instruments or information relating to such
Purchased Loans in the possession, or under the control, of the Seller, such Servicer and
such subservicer. The Seller agrees to pay all costs and expenses of the Administrative
Agent, the Syndication Agent and any Buyer incurred in the exercise of their rights pursuant
to this Section 16.18(a).
(b) The Seller agrees to permit authorized representatives of the Administrative Agent
and each Buyer, at such Buyer’s expense except after the occurrence and during the
continuance of a Default or Event of Default, to discuss onsite the business, operations,
assets and financial condition of the Seller and its Subsidiaries with their respective
officers, employees and independent accountants and to examine their books of account and
make copies or extracts of them, all at such reasonable times and upon such reasonable
notice as the Administrative Agent or any Buyer may request, for any or all of the purposes
of ordinary diligence, performing the Buyers’ duties (and any of the Seller’s duties which
the Seller has not performed) and enforcing the Buyers’ and the Administrative Agent’s
rights under this Agreement. To the extent that it is commercially reasonable, any Buyer
that desires to act under this Section 16.8(b) shall do so either through the Administrative
Agent, or with the coordination of the Administrative Agent, and to the extent that it is
not commercially reasonable for a Buyer to do so, such Buyer may only act under this Section
16.8(b) one (1) time in any consecutive six (6) month period and, unless such Buyer is the
Person serving as the Administrative Agent, at such Buyer’s expense. The Administrative
Agent or the Buyer acting will notify the Seller before contacting the Seller’s accountants
and the Seller may have its representatives in attendance at any meetings between the
officers or other representatives of the Administrative Agent or any Buyer and such
accountants held in accordance with this authorization.
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Each of the Administrative Agent,
the Syndication Agent and each Buyer agrees that it will prevent disclosure by itself to
third parties of any
proprietary information it has received pursuant to this Agreement and will maintain
the confidential nature of such material; provided that this restriction shall not apply to
information that (i) at the time in question has already entered the public domain, (ii) is
required to be disclosed by any Legal Requirement (including pursuant to any examination,
inspection or investigation by any Governmental Authority having regulatory jurisdiction
over any Buyer or the Administrative Agent), (iii) is furnished by the Administrative Agent,
or any Buyer to purchasers or prospective purchasers of participations or interests in the
Purchased Loans so long as such purchasers and prospective purchasers have agreed to be
subject to restrictions substantially identical to those contained in this sentence,
(iv) the disclosure of which the Administrative Agent, and the Buyers deem necessary to
market or sell Purchased Mortgage Loans or to enforce or exercise their rights under any
Repurchase Document, or (v) is disclosed by any Buyer to its attorneys, employees, agents
and auditors during the performance of their respective duties.
16.9.
Privacy of Customer Information. The Seller’s Customer Information in the possession of
the Administrative Agent or the Buyers, other than information independently obtained by the
Administrative Agent or the Buyers and not derived in any manner from or using information obtained
under or in connection with this Agreement, is and shall remain confidential and proprietary
information of the Seller. Except in accordance with this Section 16.9, the Administrative Agent
and the Buyers shall not use any Seller’s Customer Information for any purpose, including the
marketing of products or services to, or the solicitation of business from, Customers, or disclose
any Seller’s Customer Information to any Person, including any of the Administrative Agent’s or the
Buyers’ employees, agents or contractors or any third party not affiliated with the Administrative
Agent or a Buyer. The Administrative Agent and the Buyers may use or disclose Seller’s Customer
Information only to the extent necessary (i) for examination and audit of the Administrative
Agent’s or the Buyers’ respective activities, books and records by their regulatory authorities,
(ii) to market or sell Purchased Mortgage Loans or to enforce or exercise their rights under any
Repurchase Document, (iii) to carry out the Administrative Agent’s, the Syndication Agent’s, the
Buyers’ and the Custodian’s express rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other
Repurchase Documents (including providing Seller’s Customer Information to Approved Investors), or
(iv) in connection with an assignment or participation as authorized by Section 22 or in connection
with any hedging transaction related to the Purchased Loans and for no other purpose; provided that
the Administrative Agent and the Buyers may also use and disclose the Seller’s Customer Information
as expressly permitted by the Seller in writing, to the extent that such express permission is in
accordance with the Privacy Requirements. The Administrative Agent and the Buyers shall ensure
that each Person to which the Administrative Agent or a Buyer intends to disclose Seller’s Customer
Information, before any such disclosure of information, agrees to keep confidential any such
Seller’s Customer Information and to use or disclose such Seller’s Customer Information only to the
extent necessary to protect or exercise the Administrative Agents, the Buyers’ or the Custodian’s
rights and privileges, or to carry out the Administrative Agent’s, the Buyers’ and the Custodian’s
express obligations, under this Agreement and the other Repurchase Documents (including providing
Seller’s Customer Information to Approved Investors).
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The Administrative Agent agrees to maintain
an Information Security Program and to assess, manage and control risks relating to the security
and confidentiality of Seller’s Customer Information pursuant to such program in the same manner as
the Administrative Agent does in respect of its own customers’ information, and shall implement the standards relating to such risks in the manner set forth
in the Interagency Guidelines Establishing Standards for Safeguarding Company Customer Information
set forth in 12 CFR Parts 30, 208, 211, 225, 263, 308, 364, 568 and 570. Without limiting the
scope of the foregoing sentence, the Administrative Agent and the Buyers shall use at least the
same physical and other security measures to protect all of the Seller’s Customer Information in
their possession or control as each of them uses for its own customers’ confidential and
proprietary information.
16.10.
Notice of Suits, Etc. and Notice. The Seller will promptly, by no later than the end
of the Business Day next following the day when the Seller first learns of it, give written notice
to the Administrative Agent and the Buyers of:
(a) any material action, suit or proceeding instituted by or against the Seller or any
of its Subsidiaries in any federal or state court or before any commission, regulatory body
or Governmental Authority, or if any such proceedings are threatened against the Seller or
any of its Subsidiaries, in a writing containing the applicable details;
(b) the filing, recording or assessment of any material federal, state or local tax
lien against the Seller or any of its Subsidiaries or any assets of any of them;
(c) the occurrence of any Event of Default;
(d) the occurrence of any Default;
(e) the termination of, or the occurrence of any event which, with or without notice or
lapse of time or both, would constitute a default under the Custody Agreement;
(f) the occurrence of:
(1) any event which, with or without notice or lapse of time or both, would
constitute a default under, or permit the acceleration or termination of, any other
agreement, instrument or indenture to which the Seller or any of its Subsidiaries is
a party or to which any of them or any of their properties or assets may be subject
if either (x) the effect of any such default is or if uncured and unwaived after
notice, the lapse of time or both, would be to cause, or to permit any other party
to such agreement, instrument or indenture (or a trustee on behalf of such a party)
to cause, Debt of the Seller or any of its Subsidiaries to become or be declared due
before its stated maturity or (y) such default, if uncured and unwaived after any
relevant notice, the lapse of time or both, could reasonably be expected to result
in a material adverse effect on any of the Central Elements in respect of the Seller
or any of its Subsidiaries.
(2) the acceleration of any material Debt obligation of the Seller or the
termination of any credit facility of the Seller;
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(3) any other action, event or condition of any nature (excluding general
economic conditions) which, if unremedied after any relevant notice, lapse of time
or both, could reasonably be expected to result in either (i) the
Seller’s being in breach of or out of compliance with any provision of Sections
17.12, 17.13, 17.14 and 17.15 (Financial Covenants) or (ii) a material adverse
effect on any of the Central Elements in respect of the Seller or any of its
Subsidiaries; or
(4) the curing by the Seller, or the waiver by the other party to the relevant
agreement, instrument or indenture, of any event described in Section 16.10(f)(1)
and, in the case of curing, whether the event was cured before any applicable grace
or notice and opportunity to cure period had expired.
16.11.
Payment of Taxes, Etc. The Seller will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, pay
and discharge or cause to be paid and discharged promptly all taxes, assessments and governmental
charges or levies imposed upon it or its Subsidiaries or upon their respective income, receipts or
properties before they become past due, as well as all lawful claims for labor, materials and
supplies or other things which, if unpaid, could reasonably be expected to become (or result in the
placement of) a Lien or charge upon any part of such properties; provided that it and its affected
Subsidiaries shall not be required to pay taxes, assessments or governmental charges or levies or
claims for labor, materials or supplies that are being contested in good faith and by proper
proceedings being reasonably and diligently pursued, execution or enforcement of which has been
effectively stayed (by the posting of a bond or other security sufficient to achieve that result,
or by any other fully effective means), and for which reserves determined to be adequate (in
accordance with GAAP in all material respects) have been set aside on its books.
(a) maintain liability insurance protecting the Seller and its Subsidiaries against
fire and other hazard insurance on its respective properties from which it conducts its
business, with responsible insurance companies, in such amounts and against such risks as is
customarily carried by similar businesses operating in the same vicinity. Copies of such
policies shall be furnished to the Administrative Agent without charge upon the
Administrative Agent’s request made from time to time; and
(b) obtain and maintain at its own expense and keep in full force and effect a blanket
fidelity bond and an errors and omissions insurance policy covering Seller’s officers and
employees and other persons acting on behalf of Seller. The amount of coverage shall be at
least equal to the coverage that would be required by Xxxxxx Xxx or Xxxxxxx Mac, whichever
is greater, with respect to Seller if Seller were servicing and administering the Mortgage
Loans for Xxxxxx Mae or Xxxxxxx Mac. In the event that any such bond or policy ceases to be
in effect, Seller shall obtain a comparable replacement bond or policy, as the case may be,
meeting the requirements of this Section 16.12(b). Coverage of Seller under any policy or
bond obtained by an Affiliate of Seller and providing the coverage required by this
Section 16.12(b) shall satisfy the requirements of this Section 16.12(b). Upon the request
of Buyer, Seller shall cause to be delivered to Buyer evidence of such fidelity bond and
insurance policies.
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16.13.
Maintain Lien on Mortgaged Premises. The Seller will maintain the Lien on the
Mortgaged Premises securing each Purchased Loan as a first Lien (or, for Second Lien Loans or
HELOCS, as a second Lien), subject only to the Permitted Encumbrances.
16.14.
Subordination of Certain Indebtedness. The Seller will cause any and all debt and
obligations of the Seller to any Affiliate or any member, manager, stockholder, director or officer
of the Seller (excluding debt for directors’ or officers’ salary, bonuses, directors’ fees or other
compensation for service) of any Affiliate to be Qualified Subordinated Debt by the execution and
delivery by such Affiliate or member, manager, stockholder, director or officer, as applicable, to
the Administrative Agent of a Subordination Agreement in form and substance satisfactory to the
Buyers and the taking of all other steps (if any) required to cause such Debt to be Qualified
Subordinated Debt and deliver to the Administrative Agent an executed copy of that Subordination
Agreement, certified by the corporate secretary or assistant secretary of the Seller to be true and
complete and in full force and effect, as to all such present and future debts and obligations of
the Seller.
16.15.
Certain Debt to Remain Unsecured. The Seller will cause any and all debt and
obligations of the Seller advanced to the Seller by any member, manager or officer of the Seller
whether such debt exists as of the Effective Date or is incurred in the future to remain at all
times unsecured.
16.16.
Promptly Correct Escrow Imbalances. By no later than seven (7) Business Days after
learning (from any source) of any material imbalance in any escrow account(s) maintained by the
Seller (or any subservicer for it), the Seller will fully and completely correct and eliminate such
imbalance.
(a) be a “Member” (as defined in the MERS Agreements) of MERSCORP;
(b) maintain the Electronic Tracking Agreement in full force and effect and timely
perform all of its obligations thereunder;
(c) provide the Administrative Agent with copies of any new MERS Agreement or any
amendment, supplement or other modification of any MERS Agreement (other than the Electronic
Tracking Agreement);
(d) not amend, terminate or revoke, or enter into any agreement that is inconsistent
with or contradicts any provision of the Electronic Tracking Agreement;
(e) identify to the Administrative Agent each Purchased Loan that is registered in the
MERS System, at the earlier of the time it is so registered or the time it is purchased or
deemed purchased hereunder, as so registered;
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(f) at the request of the Administrative Agent, take such actions as may be requested
by the Administrative Agent to:
(1) transfer beneficial ownership of any Purchased Loan to the Administrative
Agent on behalf of the Buyers on the MERS System; or
(2) de-register or re-register any Purchased Loan on, or withdraw any Purchased
Loan from, the MERS System;
(g) provide the Administrative Agent with copies of any or all of the following reports
with respect to the Purchased Loans registered on the MERS System at the request of the
Administrative Agent:
(1) Co-existing Security Interest (MERS form IA);
(2) Release of Security Interest by Interim Funder (MERS form IB);
(3) Interim Funder Rejects (MERS form IC);
(4) Paid in Full Verification (MERS form DK); and
(5) such other reports as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request to
verify the status of any Purchased Loan on the MERS System;
(h) notify the Administrative Agent of any withdrawal or deemed withdrawal of the
Seller’s membership in the MERS System or any deregistration of any Purchased Loan
previously registered on the MERS System; and
(i) obtain the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent before entering into
an electronic tracking agreement (other than the Electronic Tracking Agreement) with any
other Person.
(a) Until both (i) all of the Purchased Loans shall have been repurchased by the Seller
and (ii) the Buyers have no obligation to purchase any additional Loans hereunder or provide
any other financial accommodations to the Seller under or otherwise in respect of this
Agreement, the Seller warrants and will defend the right, title and interest of the Buyers
and the Administrative Agent in and to the Purchased Loans against the claims and demands of
all persons whomsoever.
(b) Each Purchased Loan will be underwritten in material conformance with the Seller’s
Underwriting Guidelines in existence as of the date the Purchased Loan is originated.
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(c) As soon as they become available and in any event within seven (7) days after the
Purchase Date for Wet Loans, the Seller will cause to be assembled and delivered to the
Custodian all Basic Papers relating to Wet Loans. Without limitation of
the foregoing, if original recordation receipts evidencing the recordation of the
Mortgage and Mortgage Assignment included in the Purchased Loans have not previously been
delivered to the Custodian, the Seller will promptly deliver (or cause to be delivered) to
the Custodian, either the original recordation receipts or the original recorded Mortgage or
Mortgage Assignment showing the recordation data thereon.
(d) The Seller shall maintain, at its principal office or in a regional office not
disapproved by the Administrative Agent, or in the office of a computer service bureau
engaged by the Seller and not disapproved by the Administrative Agent, and upon request
shall make available to the Administrative Agent and the Custodian the originals of all Loan
Papers and related instruments, and all files, surveys, certificates, correspondence,
appraisals, computer programs, tapes, discs, cards, accounting records and other information
and data relating to the Purchased Loans that are held by or under the direction or control
of the Seller or any of its Affiliates and that have not already been provided to the
Administrative Agent or the Custodian.
(e) The Seller shall ensure that, if a Mortgage Loan that is to be funded and sold to
the Buyers as a Wet Loan does not close on the proposed Purchase Date, all amounts remitted
by the Administrative Agent for the payment of the Purchase Price shall be returned promptly
within one Business Day to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Buyers and if
such funds are not so returned, the Seller shall pay promptly within one Business Day a like
amount to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Buyers plus any accrued Price
Differential. Seller acknowledges that until such time as the Mortgage Loan is deemed to
have been sold to the Buyers, Seller has no interest in, nor any claim to such amounts and
shall, if it receives such amounts, hold such amounts in trust for the Buyers and shall
promptly remit such funds to the Administrative Agent for disbursement to the Buyers.
16.19.
Coordination with Other Lenders/Repo Purchasers and Their Custodians. The Seller will
provide to the Administrative Agent the current name, address and contact information concerning
each of the Seller’s other mortgage warehouse credit and repurchase facilities, will update such
information provided to the Administrative Agent as changes to the facilities or such name, address
or contact information occurs, and will cooperate and assist the Administrative Agent in exchanging
information with such others (and their document custodians or trustees) to prevent conflicting
claims to and interests in Purchased Loans between or among repurchase facilities counterparties or
lenders, and promptly correct such conflicting claims as may arise from time to time. The Seller
will execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent any intercreditor agreement Administrative
Agent and Syndication Agent may require pursuant to
Section 17.8.
16.20.
Hedge Investments in Mortgage Loans. If at any time during the term of this Agreement,
the Seller is hedging its investments in Mortgage Loans sold to the Administrative Agent and the
Buyers, the Seller will prepare its weekly periodic hedge position reports in form, substance and
detail reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, including a calculation of the weighted
average purchase price for Mortgage Loans so hedged, and provide a copy of each to the
Administrative Agent when issued, and upon the Administrative Agent’s reasonable request, the
Seller will deliver to the Administrative Agent copies of the Hedge Agreements
acquired by the Seller and held from time to time to so hedge its investments in Mortgage
Loans sold to the Buyers.
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The Seller agrees that, for so long as the Commitments are outstanding or until all of the
Purchased Loans have been repurchased by the Seller and none of the Seller’s Obligations remain to
be paid or performed under this Agreement or any of the other Repurchase Documents, the Seller
shall not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, either directly or indirectly,
without the prior written consent of the Required Buyers:
17.1.
No Merger. The Seller shall not merge or consolidate with or into any Person, if
immediately prior to any such merger or consolidation a Default or Event of Default exists or would
occur as a result thereof, or if as a result of any such merger or consolidation a Change of
Control would occur or the Seller is not the surviving entity.
17.2.
Limitation on GAAP Indebtedness and Contingent Indebtedness. At no time shall the
Seller or any Restricted Subsidiary incur, create, contract, assume, have outstanding, guarantee or
otherwise be or become, directly or indirectly, liable in respect of any GAAP Indebtedness or
Contingent Indebtedness except:
(a) the Obligations;
(b) trade debt (including, without limitation, trade debt for services provided by an
Affiliate), equipment leases, loans for the purchase of equipment used in the ordinary
course of the Seller’s business and indebtedness for taxes and assessments not yet due and
payable owed in the ordinary course of business;
(c) unsecured GAAP Indebtedness or unsecured Contingent Indebtedness owing to Parent or
any Affiliate of Parent;
(d) Contingent Indebtedness to Persons in support of the Parent or an Affiliate of
Parent; and
(e) With the prior written consent of the Required Buyers (which consent shall not be
unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned upon fees), GAAP Indebtedness under a mortgage
warehousing facility, mortgage repurchase facility or off-balance sheet indebtedness under
another financing arrangement, other than those described in subsections (c) and (d) of this
Section 17.2 provided that the Buyers are given a right of first refusal regarding only
similarly structured syndicated mortgage warehousing facilities or mortgage repurchase
facilities.
17.3.
Business. The Seller shall not, directly or indirectly, other than through an
Unrestricted Subsidiary, engage in any businesses which differ materially from those currently
engaged in by the Seller or any other businesses customarily engaged in by other Persons in the
mortgage banking business.
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17.4.
Liquidations, Dispositions of Substantial Assets. Except as expressly provided below in
this section, neither the Seller nor any Restricted Subsidiary shall dissolve or liquidate or sell,
transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of any material portion of its property or assets or business.
Except as provided herein for the Purchased Loans, the Seller and the Restricted Subsidiaries may
sell other Mortgage Loans and the right to service such other Mortgage Loans in the ordinary course
of their business pursuant to other repurchase facilities or mortgage warehousing facilities
allowed hereunder, any Restricted Subsidiary may sell its property, assets or business to the
Seller or another Restricted Subsidiary, and any Restricted Subsidiary may liquidate or dissolve if
at the time thereof and immediately thereafter, the Seller and the Restricted Subsidiaries are in
compliance with all covenants set forth in the Repurchase Documents and no Default or Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
17.5.
Loans, Advances, and Investments. Neither the Seller nor any Restricted Subsidiary
shall make any loan (other than Mortgage Loans), advance, or capital contribution to, or investment
in (including any investment in any Restricted Subsidiary, joint venture or partnership), or
purchase or otherwise acquire any of the capital stock, securities, ownership interests, or
evidences of indebtedness of, any Person (collectively, “Investment”), or otherwise acquire any
interest in, or control of, another Person, except for the following:
(a) Cash Equivalents;
(b) Any acquisition of securities or evidences of indebtedness of others when acquired
by the Seller in settlement of accounts receivable or other debts arising in the ordinary
course of its business, so long as the aggregate amount of any such securities or evidences
of indebtedness is not material to the business or condition (financial or otherwise) of the
Seller;
(c) Mortgage Notes acquired in the ordinary course of the Seller’s business;
(d) Investment in any existing Affiliate or any Subsidiary (including Investments by
the Seller in CH Funding, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company) or JV; provided that at
the time any such investment is made and immediately thereafter, the Seller and the
Restricted Subsidiaries are in compliance with all covenants set forth in the Repurchase
Documents and no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
(e) Loans to officers or employees in an aggregate amount not to exceed $300,000;
(f) Loans made to JV’s in an amount not to exceed $10,000,000 at any one time
outstanding, secured by Mortgage Loans originated with the proceeds of such loans and
covered by a bona fide current, unused and unexpired Whole Loan commitment issued in favor
of and held by such JV made by an Investor or the Seller; and
(g) Investments in mortgage origination companies so long as (i) such Investment is a
direct equity investment and so long as such Investment does not cause a breach of any other
covenant (affirmative or negative) hereunder.
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17.6.
Use of Proceeds. The Seller shall not, directly or indirectly, use any of the proceeds
of the Transactions for the purpose, whether immediate, incidental or ultimate, of buying any
“margin stock” or of maintaining, reducing or retiring any GAAP Indebtedness and Contingent
Indebtedness originally incurred to purchase a stock that is currently any “margin stock”, or for
any other purpose which might constitute this transaction a “purpose credit”, in each case within
the meaning of Regulation U or otherwise take or permit to be taken any action which would involve
a violation of Regulation U or Regulation T or any other regulation of the Board of Governors of
the Federal Reserve System.
17.7.
Transactions with Affiliates. The Seller shall not enter into any transactions
including, without limitation, any purchase, sale, lease or exchange of property or the rendering
of any service, with any Affiliate other than a Restricted Subsidiary unless such transactions are
otherwise permitted under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the transactions permitted
under Section 17.2) and are in the ordinary course of the Seller’s business.
17.8.
Liens. The Seller shall not grant, create, incur, assume, permit or suffer to exist any
Lien, upon any of its Mortgage Notes or any property related thereto, including but not limited to
the Mortgages securing such Mortgage Notes and the proceeds of the Mortgage Notes, unless such
Liens are the subject of an intercreditor agreement in form and substance satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent and the Syndication Agent, other than: (a) Liens under approved warehouse or
repurchase facilities under Section 17.2(e), and (b) Liens granted to the Buyers under
Section
10.
17.9.
ERISA Plans. Neither the Seller nor any Restricted Subsidiary shall adopt or agree to
maintain or contribute to an ERISA Plan. The Seller shall promptly notify Administrative Agent and
each Buyer in writing in the event an ERISA Affiliate adopts an ERISA Plan.
17.10.
Change of Principal Office; Fiscal Year. The Seller shall not move its principal
office, executive office or principal place of business from the address set forth in this
Agreement or change its Fiscal Year, without prior written notice to Administrative Agent and each
Buyer.
17.11.
Distributions. The Seller shall make no payment of dividends or distributions to any
of its partners if either before or after giving effect thereto a Default or an Event of Default
exists or shall be caused thereby.
17.12.
Tangible Net Worth. At all times, the Seller’s Consolidated Tangible Net Worth shall
not be less than $130,000,000.
17.13.
Tangible Net Worth Ratio. At all times, the ratio of (i) the sum of GAAP Indebtedness
and Contingent Indebtedness to (ii) the Seller’s Consolidated Tangible Net Worth shall not be more
than 10.0 to 1.0.
17.14.
Net Income. As of the end of each month, the Seller’s consolidated income, calculated
as net after tax income in accordance with GAAP, for the six consecutive months then ended shall
not be less than $1.00.
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17.15.
Liquidity. Seller’s Liquidity shall at all times be no less than the greater of
$17,500,000 or five percent (5%) of the outstanding amounts under this Agreement and all other
mortgage warehouse, conduit or repurchase facilities to which the Seller is a party.
17.16.
Special Negative Covenants Concerning Purchased Loans. Except to correct errors or
omissions in Loan Papers, without the written consent of the Administrative Agent given on a
case-by-case basis, amend or modify, or waive any of the terms and conditions of any Purchased
Loans, or settle or compromise any claim in respect of them, or accept other than cash or the
exchange of comparable Purchased Loans (which is concurrently sold by the Seller to the Buyers) in
liquidation of any Purchased Loans.
17.17.
No Changes in Accounting Practices. Make any significant change in accounting
treatment or reporting practices, except as required by GAAP, or change its fiscal year.
18.1.
Events of Default. The following events shall constitute events of default (each an
“Event of Default”) hereunder:
(a) Seller shall default in the payment of (i) the Repurchase Price for any Purchased
Loans on the applicable Repurchase Date, (ii) any Price Differential, Facility Fees or
Administrative Agent’s Fees when due and fail to cure such default within one (1) Business
Day, (iii) any amount required to be paid or transferred or paid to eliminate any Margin
Deficit within the time period specified in Section 6.2 or (iv) any other Obligation, when
the same shall become due and payable, whether at the due date thereof, or by acceleration
or otherwise.
(b) An Event of Insolvency occurs with respect to the Seller, Parent, the Seller’s
general partner, or a Restricted Subsidiary.
(c) Any representation or warranty made by a Seller under any Repurchase Document shall
have been incorrect or untrue when made or repeated or deemed to have been made or repeated;
provided, that in the case of representations and warranties made with respect to the
Purchased Loans, such circumstance shall not constitute an Event of Default if, after
determining the Purchase Value of the Purchased Loans without taking into account the
Purchased Loans with respect to which such circumstance has occurred, no other Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
(d) Any covenant contained in Sections 16.1, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 16.10, 17.1, 17.4,
17.12, 17.13,.17.14 and 17.15 shall have been breached and such breach remains unremedied
for five (5) calendar days.
(e) Any covenant contained in (i) Section 17 (other than Sections 17.1, 17.4, 17.12,
17.13, 17.14 and 17.15) shall have been breached, (ii) Section 16 shall have been breached
in any material respect (except for any breach of Sections 16.1, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5 and 16.10)
and (iii) any other covenant or agreement contained in any Repurchase Document is breached
in any material respect, and in the case of (i), (ii) and (iii) above, such breach is not
cured within fifteen (15) calendar days of the earlier of Seller’s
knowledge of such breach or Seller’s receipt of notice of such breach from any source;
provided, that in the case of covenants made with respect to the Purchased Loans, such
circumstance shall not constitute an Event of Default if, after determining the Purchase
Value of the Purchased Loans without taking into account the Purchased Loans with respect to
which such circumstance has occurred, no other Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing.
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(f) Failure of the Seller or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to pay any other Debt
when due, or any default in the payment when due of any principal or interest on any other
Debt or in the payment when due of any contingent obligation (other than nonrecourse MBS
Debt of any Affiliate formed for the purpose of issuing such Debt), or any breach or default
with respect to any other material term of any other debt or of any promissory note, bond,
loan agreement, reimbursement agreement, mortgage, indenture, repurchase agreement or
financing agreement or other agreement relating thereto, if the effect of any such failure,
default, breach or event referred to in this Section 18.1(f) is to cause, or to permit, with
or without the giving of notice or lapse of time or both, the holder or holders of such
obligation (or a trustee on behalf of such holder or holders) to cause, Debt of the Seller
or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in the aggregate amount of Five Million Dollars
($5,000,000) or more to become or be declared due before its stated maturity.
(g) A Change of Control shall occur.
(h) A material adverse change shall occur in any of the Central Elements relative to
the Seller or any of its Subsidiaries.
(i) The Seller shall repudiate or purport to disavow its obligations under any of the
Repurchase Documents or shall contest their validity or enforceability.
(j) This Agreement shall cease to be in full force and effect or its enforceability is
disputed or challenged by Seller.
(k) The Seller shall take or omit to take any act (i) that would result in the
suspension or loss of any of its statuses, once achieved or any of such statuses of any of
its subservicers, if any, of any Xxxxxx Xxx, Xxxxxx Xxx or Xxxxxxx Mac Mortgage Loans pools
for which the Seller is Servicer as an FHA- and VA-approved lender and mortgagee and a
Xxxxxx Mae-, Xxxxxx Xxx- and Xxxxxxx Mac-approved issuer and servicer, or (ii) after which
the Seller or any such relevant subservicer would no longer be in good standing as such, or
(iii) after which the Seller or any such relevant subservicer would no longer currently
satisfy all applicable Xxxxxx Mae, Xxxxxx Xxx and Xxxxxxx Mac net worth requirements, if
both (x) all of the material effects of such act or omission shall have not been cured by
the Seller or waived by the relevant Person (Xxxxxx Mae, Xxxxxx Xxx or Xxxxxxx Mac) before
termination of such status and (y) it could reasonably be expected to have a material
adverse effect on any of the Central Elements in respect of the Seller or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries.
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(l) Any money judgment, writ or warrant of attachment, or similar process involving in
any case an amount in excess of One Million Dollars ($1,000,000) (in excess of relevant
insurance coverage reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent in its discretion)
shall be entered or filed against the Seller or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their
respective assets and shall remain undischarged, unvacated, unbonded or unstayed for a
period of thirty (30) days or in any event later than five (5) days before the date of any
proposed sale thereunder (unless, in respect of any such case the judgment debtor or the
subject of the writ or warrant of attachment or similar process is one of the Seller’s
Subsidiaries or such Subsidiary’s property, and such order, case commencement, consent,
assignment, inability or failure or admission could not reasonably be expected to have a
material adverse effect on any of the Central Elements in respect of the Seller or any of
its Restricted Subsidiaries).
(m) The Seller shall have failed to comply in any material respect with its obligations
under the Custody Agreement.
(n) The Seller, as Servicer, shall fail to service the Purchased Loans in conformance
with Accepted Servicing Practices.
18.2.
Transaction Termination. If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing,
then, at the option of the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent may declare the
Repurchase Date for any or all Transactions hereunder, upon written notice to the Seller, to be
deemed immediately to occur.
18.3.
Termination by the Administrative Agent. If the Administrative Agent has exercised the
option to terminate any Transactions referred to in Section 18.2, (i) Seller’s obligations
hereunder to repurchase all Purchased Loans in such Transactions shall thereupon become immediately
due and payable, (ii) to the extent permitted by applicable law, the Repurchase Price with respect
to each such Transaction shall be increased by the aggregate amount obtained by daily
multiplication of (x) the greater of the Pricing Rate for such Transaction and the Past Due Rate by
(y) the Purchase Price for such Transaction as of the Repurchase Date as determined pursuant to
Section 18.2 (decreased as of any day by (A) any amounts retained by Buyers with respect to such
Purchase Price pursuant to clause (iii) of this Section 18.3, (B) any proceeds from the sale of
Purchased Loans pursuant to clause (A) of Section 18.4, and (C) any amounts credited to the account
of the Seller pursuant to clause (B) of Section 18.4) on a three hundred sixty (360) day per year
basis for the actual number of days during the period from and including the date of the Event of
Default giving rise to such option to but excluding the date of payment of the Repurchase Price as
so increased, (iii) all Income paid after such exercise or deemed exercise shall be payable to and
retained by the Administrative Agent and applied to the aggregate unpaid Repurchase Prices owed by
the Seller and (iv) the Seller shall immediately deliver or cause the Custodian to deliver to the
Administrative Agent any documents relating to Purchased Loans subject to such Transactions then in
the Seller’s, its Servicer’s or its subservicer’s possession.
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18.4.
Remedies. Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, the Administrative Agent, without
prior notice to the Seller, may (A) immediately sell, in a recognized market at such price or
prices as Administrative Agent may deem satisfactory, any or all Purchased Loans
subject to such Transactions on a servicing released or servicing retained basis and apply the
proceeds thereof to the aggregate unpaid Repurchase Prices and any other amounts owing by the
Seller hereunder, (B) in lieu of selling all or a portion of such Purchased Loans, to give the
Seller credit for such Purchased Loans in an amount equal to the Market Value therefor on such date
against the aggregate unpaid Repurchase Prices and any other amounts owing by the Seller hereunder
(C) terminate and replace the Seller as Servicer (or any other Servicer or Subservicer) at the cost
and expense of Seller, (D) exercise its rights under Section 8 regarding the Income Account and
Escrow Account, and (E) by notice to the Seller, declare the Termination Date to have occurred,
except that in the case of any event described in Section 18.1(b), the Termination Date shall be
deemed to have occurred automatically upon the occurrence of such event. Additionally, if an Event
of Default has occurred and is continuing, (i) Administrative Agent may, at its option, by notice
to Seller, assume or cause to be assumed by another Person, Seller’s obligation to provide future
HELOC Draws pursuant to the documents related to any one or more HELOCs which are Purchased Loans
(ii) at its option, Administrative Agent shall have the right (but not the obligation) to make any
future HELOC Draws under the documents related to any one or more HELOCs which are Purchased Loans
and (iii) in connection with Administrative Agent’s sale of any HELOC, all rights and obligations
of Seller with respect to such HELOC shall be sold with such HELOC (including the right to fund
future advances and all rights and obligations under the documents related to such HELOC). The
proceeds of any disposition in clause (A) or (B) above shall be applied
first to the
reasonable costs and expenses incurred by Buyers in connection with or as a result of an Event of
Default (including legal fees, consulting fees, accounting fees, file transfer fees, inventory fees
and costs and expenses incurred in respect of a transfer of the servicing of the Purchased Loans
and costs and expenses of disposition of such Purchased Loans);
second to costs of cover
and/or related Hedge Agreements;
third to the aggregate Price Differential owed hereunder,
fourth to the remaining aggregate Repurchase Prices owed hereunder;
fifth to any
other accrued and unpaid obligations of the Seller hereunder and under the other Repurchase
Documents,
sixth to any Servicer or Subservicer (other than Seller) for payment of any
servicing fees due and payable as of such date and
seventh any remaining proceeds to the
Seller.
18.5.
Liability for Expenses and Damages. The Seller shall be liable to the Buyers for
(i) the amount of all reasonable legal or other expenses incurred by the Buyers in connection with
or as a result of an Event of Default, (ii) damages in an amount equal to the reasonable cost
(including all fees, expenses and commissions) of entering into replacement transactions and
entering into or terminating hedge transactions in connection with or as a result of an Event of
Default and (iii) any other reasonable loss, damage, cost or expense directly arising or resulting
from the occurrence of an Event of Default in respect of a defaulting party.
18.6.
Liability for Interest. To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Seller shall be
liable to the Buyers for interest on any amounts owing by the Seller hereunder, from the date the
Seller becomes liable for such amounts hereunder until such amounts are (i) paid in full by the
Seller or (ii) satisfied in full by the exercise of the Buyer’s rights hereunder. Interest on any
sum payable by the Seller under this Section 18.8 shall be at a rate equal to the greater of the
Pricing Rate for the relevant Transaction or the Prime Rate.
18.7.
Other Rights. In addition to its rights hereunder, the Buyers shall have any rights
otherwise available to them under any other agreement or applicable law.
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18.8.
Exercise of Remedies. The exercise by any party of remedies after the occurrence of an
Event of Default shall be conducted in a commercially reasonable manner.
18.9.
Seller’s Repurchase Rights. For avoidance of doubt, subject to the terms and conditions
of this Agreement, Seller may repurchase Purchased Loans and resell such Purchased Loans; provided
that upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, Seller may repurchase
Purchased Loans by payment of the Repurchase Price therefor only upon approval of the
Administrative Agent in its discretion exercised in accordance with the provisions of
Section
22.
18.10.
Sale of Purchased Loans. The parties acknowledge and agree that (1) the Purchased
Loans subject to any Transaction hereunder are instruments traded in a recognized market, (2) in
the absence of a generally recognized source for prices or bid or offer quotations for any
Purchased Loans, the Administrative Agent may establish the source therefor, (3) all prices, bids
and offers shall be determined together with accrued Income (except to the extent contrary to
market practice with respect to the relevant Purchased Loans) and (4) in soliciting price, bid and
offer quotations for any Purchased Loan, it is reasonable for the Administrative Agent to use only
the information provided by Seller pursuant to
Section 16.1. The parties further recognize
that it may not be possible to purchase or sell all of the Purchased Loans on a particular Business
Day, or in a transaction with the same purchaser, or in the same manner because the market for such
Purchased Loans may not be liquid at such time. In view of the nature of the Purchased Loans, the
parties agree that liquidation of a Transaction or the underlying Purchased Loans does not require
a public purchase or sale and that a good faith private purchase or sale shall be deemed to have
been made in a commercially reasonable manner. Accordingly, the Administrative Agent may elect the
time and manner of liquidating any Purchased Loan and nothing contained herein shall obligate the
Administrative Agent to liquidate any Purchased Loan on the occurrence of an Event of Default or to
liquidate all Purchased Loans in the same manner or on the same Business Day and no such exercise
of any right or remedy shall constitute a waiver of any other right or remedy of the Administrative
Agent or the Buyers.
19.1.
Servicing Released Basis. Consistent with Buyers’ purchase of the Purchased Loans on a
servicing-released basis, Seller shall have no ownership right whatsoever as to any of the
Purchased Loans or the servicing rights related thereto. Rather, Seller shall have only servicing
responsibilities with respect to the Purchased Loans that are subject to termination in accordance
with Section 19.7 hereof. Seller and Buyers hereby acknowledge and agree that the provisions
contained in this Section 19 are intended to be for the benefit of Buyers and are an essential part
of this Agreement, and that the nature and purpose of the purchase and sale obligations and the
servicing obligations hereunder are interrelated. Seller acknowledges that if an Event of Default
has occurred and is continuing, Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Buyers may, upon
written notice to the Seller, without payment of any termination fee or other amount to Seller,
sell any or all of the Purchased Loans on a servicing released basis at the cost and expense of
Seller.
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19.2.
Servicing and Subservicing. Seller hereby agrees, for the benefit of the Buyers, to
service or contract with Servicer and Subservicers to service the Purchased Loans in accordance
with Accepted Servicing Practices. Seller’s fees for its duties as Servicer, until terminated
under Section 19.7, shall be twenty-five (25) basis points per annum on the unpaid principal
balance of each Purchased Loan, payable from Income in accordance with the provisions of Section
8.2. Servicer shall (i) comply with all applicable Federal, State and local laws and regulations
in all material respects, (ii) maintain all state and federal licenses necessary for it to perform
its servicing responsibilities hereunder and (iii) not impair the rights of Buyers in any Purchased
Loans or any payment thereunder. Administrative Agent may terminate the servicing of any Purchased
Loan with the then existing Servicer in accordance with Section 19.7 hereof. Seller shall not be
entitled to any servicing fee or other compensation in connection with its performance of the
servicing responsibilities with respect to the Purchased Loans except to the extent that Seller is
Servicer; provided that nothing in this Section shall be deemed to impair the rights of any
Subservicer to fees and other compensation to which it is entitled under the applicable Servicing
Agreement.
19.3.
Escrow Payments. Seller shall cause Servicer and any Subservicers to hold or cause to
be held all escrow payments collected by Seller with respect to any Purchased Loans in trust
accounts and shall apply the same for the purposes for which such funds were collected.
19.4.
Escrow and Income after Event of Default. After the occurrence and during the
continuance of an Event of Default, (i) Seller shall cause Servicer and any Subservicers to deposit
all Income, excluding escrow payments, into the Income Account within two (2) Business Days of
receipt by Servicer or such Subservicer (ii) all funds received on or in connection with a
Purchased Loan shall be received and held by Seller, Servicer and each Subservicer in trust for the
benefit of the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Buyers as owner of the Purchased Loans and
(iii) neither Seller nor Servicer shall be deemed to have any rights or ownership interest in such
funds prior to their being remitted to the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Buyers.
19.5.
Servicing Records. Seller agrees that Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Buyers, is
the owner of all servicing records, including but not limited to any and all servicing agreements,
files, documents, records, data bases, computer tapes, copies of computer tapes, proof of insurance
or guaranty coverage, insurance or guaranty policies, appraisals, other closing documentation,
payment history records, and any other records relating to or evidencing the servicing of Mortgage
Loans (the “
Servicing Records”). The Servicing Records are and shall be held in trust by
Seller, Servicer and each Subservicer for the benefit of Administrative Agent as the owner thereof
on behalf of the Buyers. Upon notice from Administrative Agent after the occurrence and during the
continuance of an Event of Default, Seller will cause each Servicer and Subservicer to (i)
designate Buyers as the purchaser of each Purchased Loan in its collateral tracking system, (ii)
segregate such Servicing Records from any and all servicing agreements, files, documents, records,
data bases, computer tapes, copies of computer tapes, proof of insurance coverage, insurance
policies, appraisals, other closing documentation, payment history records, and any other records
relating to or evidencing the servicing of assets that are not Purchased Loans, (iii) safeguard
such Servicing Records and (iv) deliver them promptly to Administrative Agent or its designee
(including Custodian) at Administrative Agent’s request.
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19.6.
Subservicer Instruction Letter. Seller shall, prior to the initial Purchase Date of
Mortgage Loans serviced by each Subservicer, provide to Buyers a Subservicer Instruction Letter
addressed to and agreed to by any Subservicer of the related Purchased Loans.
19.7.
Termination of Servicing. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of (i) a
Default, other than a Default with regard to Section 16.3, 16.5 and 16.18(e), or (ii) any Event of
Default hereunder Administrative Agent shall have the right to (A) terminate Seller’s, Servicer’s
and any Subservicer’s rights, if any, and obligations with respect to servicing of the Purchased
Loans without payment of any penalty or termination fee (1) immediately with respect to Seller and
(2) with respect to any Servicer (other than Seller) or Subservicer, as promptly as possible
subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable Servicing Agreement and Subservicer
Instruction Letter; provided that any such termination shall be deemed to have occurred
automatically upon the occurrence of an Event of Default set forth in Section 18.1(b) above, (B)
require Seller to enforce its rights and remedies, as agent for and for the benefit of Buyers in
accordance with Administrative Agent’s commercially reasonable instructions, with respect to any
Purchased Loans under any Servicing Agreement, and (C) succeed to the rights and remedies of Seller
with respect to any Purchased Loans under any Servicing Agreement to the extent permitted by, and
subject to, the terms of such Servicing Agreement (but not the obligations or liabilities of Seller
incurred prior to the date of such succession) and related Subservicer Instruction Letter. Upon
any such termination, Seller shall, and shall cause each Subservicer to, (i) perform the servicing
responsibilities with respect to the Purchased Loans in accordance with the terms of this Agreement
until the transfer of servicing responsibilities is effectuated and (ii) cooperate, at Seller’s
expense, in transferring such servicing responsibilities with respect to the Purchased Loans to a
successor Servicer appointed by Administrative Agent and the Syndication Agent in their sole
discretion. Upon termination of Seller as Servicer and without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, Seller shall, in the manner and at such times as the successor servicer or
Administrative Agent shall request, (i) promptly transfer all data in the Servicing Records
relating to the Purchase Loans to the successor servicer in such electronic format as the successor
servicer may reasonably request, (ii) promptly transfer to the successor servicer, Administrative
Agent or its designee, all other files, records correspondence and documents relating to the
Purchased Loans and (iii) use commercially reasonable efforts to cooperate and coordinate with the
successor servicer and the Administrative Agent to comply with any applicable so-called “goodbye”
letter requirements or other applicable requirements of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act
or other applicable legal or regulatory requirement associated with the transfer of the servicing
of the Purchased Loans. Servicer acknowledges and agrees that if it fails to cooperate with the
Administrative Agent or any successor servicer in effecting the termination of Seller as Servicer
of any Purchase Loan or the transfer of all authority to service such Purchased Loan to such
successor servicer in accordance with the terms hereof, the Administrative Agent and Buyers will be
irreparably harmed and entitled to injunctive relief.
19.8.
Notice from Seller. If Seller should discover that, for any reason whatsoever, any
entity responsible to Seller by contract for managing or servicing any Purchased Loan has failed to
perform in any material respects Seller’s obligations under the Repurchase Documents or any of the
material obligations of such entities with respect to the Purchased Loans, Seller shall promptly
notify Administrative Agent.
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19.9.
Seller Remains Liable. Notwithstanding any Servicing Agreement or the provisions of
this Repurchase Agreement relating to agreements or arrangements between Seller and a Subservicer
or reference to actions taken through a Subservicer or otherwise, Seller shall remain obligated and
primarily liable to the Buyers for servicing and administering of the Purchased Loans in accordance
with the provisions hereof without diminution of such obligation or liability by virtue of such
Servicing Agreements or arrangements or by virtue of indemnification from a Subservicer and to the
same extent and under the same terms and conditions as if Seller alone were servicing and
administering the Purchased Loans. All actions of each Subservicer performed pursuant to the
related Servicing Agreement shall be performed as an agent of Seller with the same force and effect
as if performed directly by Seller and the Buyers shall have no obligations, duties or liabilities
with respect to any Subservicer including no obligation, duty or liability of the Buyers to pay any
Subservicer’s fees and expenses, provided, however, that each Subservicer may retain any amounts
collected by it that it is entitled to retain pursuant to the applicable Servicing Agreement or
Subservicer Instruction Letter. Seller shall be entitled to enter into any agreement with each
Subservicer for indemnification of Seller by the Subservicer and nothing contained in this
Repurchase Agreement shall be deemed to limit or modify such indemnification.
19.10.
Backup Servicer. Administrative Agent and Syndication Agent shall have the right, in
their sole discretion, to appoint a Backup Servicer that will (i) serve as a backup servicer of the
Purchased Loans until such time as Administrative Agent and Syndication Agent shall elect to
appoint the Backup Servicer as successor servicer of the Purchased Loans and (ii) become the
successor servicer of the Purchased Loans at Administrative Agent’s and Syndication Agent’s option.
In connection with the appointment of a Backup Servicer as provided in the preceding sentence,
Administrative Agent and Syndication Agent may make such arrangements for the compensation of
Backup Servicer out of Income on the Mortgage Loans or otherwise as Administrative Agent and
Syndication Agent and such Backup Servicer shall agree. Seller shall provide Backup Servicer with
such data, files and information, in form, format and content as Backup Servicer may request, in
order to permit Backup Servicer to service the Mortgage Loans in accordance with Accepted Servicing
Practices; all such data, files and information shall be updated by Seller on a monthly basis as
required by Backup Servicer.
19.11.
Successor Servicer. If Backup Servicer is appointed by Administrative Agent and
Syndication Agent to act as a successor servicer of the Purchased Loans pursuant to the preceding
section, Seller (in its capacity as Servicer hereunder) shall, and shall cause each Subservicer,
subject to such Subservicer’s rights under any applicable Servicing Agreement, and Subservicer
Instruction Letter, to discharge its servicing duties and responsibilities during the period from
the date it acquires knowledge of such transfer of servicing until the effective date thereof with
the same degree of diligence and prudence that it is obligated to exercise under this Agreement,
and shall take no action whatsoever that might impair or prejudice the rights or financial
condition of Backup Servicer. Within five (5) Business Days of the appointment of Backup Servicer
to act as successor servicer of the Purchased Loans, Seller shall, and shall cause each Subservicer
to, prepare, execute and deliver to Backup Servicer any and all documents and other instruments,
place in such successor’s possession all Servicing Records, and do or cause to be done all other
acts or things necessary or appropriate to effect the transfer of servicing to Backup Servicer,
including but not limited to the transfer and endorsement of the Mortgage Notes and related
documents, and the preparation and recordation of assignments of Mortgage.
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Seller shall (and shall cause each Subservicer to) cooperate with Administrative Agent and
Backup Servicer in effecting the transfer of servicing responsibilities to Backup Servicer,
including execution and delivery of servicing transfer notices to Mortgagors, MERS (if applicable),
taxing authorities and insurance companies, the transfer to Backup Servicer for administration by
it of all Income with respect to the Purchased Loans which shall at the time be held or received by
Seller or any Subservicer. Seller shall deliver immediately to Backup Servicer all Purchased Loan
documents and related documents and statements held by it or any Subservicer hereunder and Seller
shall account for all funds and shall execute and deliver such instruments and do such other things
as may reasonably be required to more fully and definitively vest in Backup Servicer all such
rights, powers, duties, responsibilities, obligations and liabilities of Seller as servicer of the
Purchased Loans.
(a) The Seller shall pay on demand all of the Administrative Agent’s and the
Syndication Agent’s reasonable out-of-pocket fees and expenses (including the fees and
expenses for legal services) incurred by the Administrative Agent, the Syndication Agent and
the Custodian in connection with this Agreement and the Custody Agreement and the
Transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, whether or not any Transactions are entered
into hereunder, including the reasonable out-of-pocket fees and expenses incurred in
connection with (i) the preparation, reproduction and distribution of this Agreement and the
Custody Agreement and any opinions of counsel, certificates of officers or other documents
contemplated by the aforementioned agreements, (ii) any Transaction under this Agreement,
(iii) the administration and syndication of this Agreement and of any Transaction and (iv)
any amendments and waivers regarding any of the foregoing. The obligation of the Seller to
pay such fees and expenses incurred prior to or in connection with the termination of this
Agreement shall survive the termination of this Agreement.
(b) The Seller shall pay all of the Administrative Agent’s, Syndication Agent’s and
each Buyer’s, out-of-pocket costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, after
the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default in connection with the enforcement of this
Agreement, the Custody Agreement and the other Repurchase Documents, including in connection
with any (i) bankruptcy, (ii) other insolvency proceeding, or (iii) any workout or
consultation involving the Buyers’ rights and remedies, the purchase and repurchase of the
Purchased Loans and the payment of Price Differential in connection therewith.
(c) The Seller shall pay, and hold the Administrative Agent, the Buyers and any other
owners or holders of any of the Obligations harmless from and against, any and all present
and future stamp, documentary and other similar taxes with respect to the foregoing matters
and save them each harmless from and against any and all liabilities with respect to or
resulting from any delay or omission to pay such taxes.
(d) The Seller shall pay all of the Administrative Agent’s Fees and any other fees
under this Agreement and the other Repurchase Documents.
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20.2.
Indemnity. The Seller shall pay, and indemnify, defend and hold harmless the
Administrative Agent, the Syndication Agent, the Buyers and any of their respective officers,
directors, employees, agents, advisors and Affiliates (the “Indemnified Parties”) from and against,
the “Indemnified Liabilities”, which means any and all claims, liabilities, obligations, losses,
damages, penalties, judgments, suits, costs, expenses and disbursements (including reasonable
attorneys’ fees and disbursements) of any kind whatsoever which may be imposed upon, incurred by or
asserted against any of the Indemnified Parties in any way relating to or arising out of any of the
Repurchase Documents or any of the transactions contemplated thereby or the use of proceeds or
proposed use of proceeds thereof, provided that to the extent, if any, that any Indemnified
Liabilities are caused by any Indemnified Party’s gross negligence or willful misconduct, the
indemnity payable to that Indemnified Party shall be equitably and proportionately reduced,
although to the full extent permitted under applicable Law, such indemnity shall not be reduced
on account of such claims, liabilities, etc. to any extent (i) owed, in whole or in part, under any
claim or theory of strict liability, or (ii) caused or contributed to by any Indemnified Party’s
sole or concurrent ordinary negligence that does not amount to gross negligence or willful
misconduct, it being the Seller’s intention to hereby indemnify the Indemnified Parties against
their own strict liability and their own sole or concurrent ordinary negligence.
The Buyers, the Administrative Agent and Seller acknowledge that, and have entered into this
Agreement and will enter into each Transaction hereunder in consideration of and in reliance upon
the fact that, all Transactions hereunder constitute a single business and contractual relationship
and have been made in consideration of each other. Accordingly, each of the Administrative Agent,
the Buyers and the Seller agrees (i) to perform all of its obligations in respect of each
Transaction hereunder, and that a default in the performance of any such obligations shall
constitute a default by it in respect of all Transactions hereunder, (ii) that each of them shall
be entitled to set off claims and apply property held by them in respect of any Transaction against
obligations owing to them in respect of any other Transactions hereunder and (iii) that payments,
deliveries and other transfers made by either of them in respect of any Transaction shall be deemed
to have been made in consideration of payments, deliveries and other transfers in respect of any
other Transactions hereunder, and the obligations to make any such payments, deliveries and other
transfers may be applied against each other and netted.
22 Relationships among the Administrative Agent and the Buyers.
22.1.
Administrative Agent’s Duties. In its capacity as Administrative Agent until all
Purchased Loans have all been repurchased by the Seller, all other Obligations have been satisfied
and the Buyers have no further Commitments or other obligations under this Agreement and the other
Repurchase Documents, the Administrative Agent shall:
(a) hold the Repurchase Documents and (by the Custodian’s holding the Purchased Loans
as bailee for the Administrative Agent) the Purchased Loans for the benefit of each Buyer,
and each Buyer (including U.S. Bank) shall be deemed to have an interest in the Repurchase
Documents on any day in proportion to its Pro Rata undivided ownership interest in the
Purchased Loans on that day;
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(b) send timely bills to the Seller for the Facility Fee and other sums due and receive
all sums on account of the Purchased Loans or with respect to them;
(c) use reasonable diligence to obtain from the Seller and promptly remit to each Buyer
such Buyer’s Pro Rata share of Repurchase Prices for Purchased Loans and other sums received
by the Administrative Agent on account of the Purchased Loans or with respect to them, in
accordance with this Agreement;
(d) use reasonable diligence to recover from the Seller all expenses incurred that are
reimbursable by the Seller, and promptly remit to each Buyer its Pro Rata share (if any)
thereof;
(e) enforce the terms of this Agreement, including, with the approval or at the
direction of the Required Buyers, the remedies afforded the Buyers pursuant to Sections
18.2, 18.3, 18.4 and 18.10;
(f) hold the Purchased Loans and all security interests established hereby ratably for
itself as Administrative Agent and representative of the Buyers; and
(g) request from the Seller, and promptly forward to the Buyers, such information as
any of the Buyers may reasonably request Administrative Agent to obtain from the Seller,
consistent with the terms of this Agreement.
22.2.
Limitation on Duty to Disclose. Except as expressly set forth herein, the
Administrative Agent shall not have any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure
to disclose, any information relating to the Seller or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates that
is communicated to or obtained by the bank serving as Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates
in any capacity.
22.3.
Actions Requiring All Buyers’ Consent. No amendment or waiver of, or any action with
respect to, any provision of this Agreement or any of the Repurchase Documents shall in any event
be effective unless the same shall be in writing signed by all Buyers with respect to any amendment
or waiver or any action that:
(a) Increases the Maximum Aggregate Commitment (it being understood that, for purposes
of this Section 22.3(a), the Buyers’ execution of this Agreement evidences such Buyers’
consent to any increase in the Maximum Aggregate Commitment in accordance with the
provisions of Section 2.3 hereof).
(b) Agrees to any reduction in any Pricing Rate, Repurchase Price or fee provisions of
this Agreement, excluding the provisions relating to the Administrative Agent’s Fee.
(c) Acknowledges termination of the Buyers’ ownership interest in the Purchased Loans
or releases any Lien held under the Repurchase Documents other than in accordance with the
Repurchase Documents.
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(d) Changes any Buyer’s Pro Rata share of ownership of the Purchased Loans other than
in accordance with the express provisions of the Repurchase Documents.
(e) Agrees to any change in the nature of the Buyers’ respective Commitments from
several to joint, in whole or in part.
(f) Agrees to any change to the definition of “Required Buyers” or to any provisions of
this Agreement or any of the other Repurchase Documents that requires the consent, approval
or satisfaction of all of the Buyers or each of the Buyers.
(g) Extends the Termination Date or the due date of any required payment other than in
accordance with the express provisions of the Repurchase Documents.
(h) Agrees to any change in this Section.
(i) Agrees to any change in the Buyer’s Margin Percentage rates.
(j) Releases the Seller from any of its obligations other than in accordance with the
express conditions of the Repurchase Documents or change any amount due under the terms of
the Repurchase Documents.
(k) Modifies the sharing provisions of Section 22.7.
In the event of any conflict between the provisions of this Section 22.3 and any other provisions
of this Agreement or the other Repurchase Documents, this provisions of this Section 22.3 shall
govern.
22.4.
Actions Requiring Required Buyers’ Consent. All amendments hereto, waivers or actions
taken hereunder that are not described in
Section 22.3 and
Section 22.5, require
the written consent or ratification of the Required Buyers except for actions that are specifically
reserved to the Administrative Agent and the Syndication Agent under
Section 6; provided
that no amendments, waivers or actions taken hereunder that (i) relate to the rights or obligations
of the Administrative Agent shall be effective without the prior written consent of the
Administrative Agent, and (ii) relate to the rights or obligations of the Syndication Agent shall
be effective without the prior written consent of the Syndication Agent. The Administrative Agent
will, at the direction of the Required Buyers, but may not, without the consent of the Required
Buyers, take any enforcement action or exercise any remedies under this Agreement and the
Repurchase Documents which arise after the occurrence of an Event of Default.
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22.5.
Administrative Agent’s Discretionary Actions. Subject to the limitations of
Sections 22.3 and
22.4, in its capacity as Administrative Agent and without seeking
or obtaining the consent of any of the other Buyers (although it may elect to obtain such consent
before acting it if deems that desirable), the Administrative Agent may:
(a) agree or consent to any change in the aggregate not involving more than $3,000,000
of the Purchased Loans at any time in the handling of the Purchased Loans and which in the
Administrative Agent’s reasonable judgment is unlikely to have a material adverse effect on
any of the Central Elements in respect of the Seller or any of
its Restricted Subsidiaries (for purposes of clarity, this allows the Administrative
Agent to temporarily suspend the effects of one or more Disqualifiers for Purchased Loans,
if the Administrative Agent in its sole and absolute discretion determines that such
Disqualifier may be resolved or corrected and to allow funding of a Wet Loan one Business
Day after the advance of funds for the purchase of such Wet Loan, in each case within the
limitation set forth in this Section 22.5(a));
(b) reconvey, exchange or otherwise change, in whole or in part, any Purchased Loans
which are required to be reconveyed, exchanged or changed in accordance with the Repurchase
Documents; and
(c) do or perform any act or thing which, in the Administrative Agent’s reasonable
judgment, is necessary or appropriate to enable the Administrative Agent to properly
discharge and perform its duties under this Agreement or the Custody Agreement, or which in
its reasonable judgment is necessary or appropriate to preserve or protect the validity,
integrity or enforceability of the Purchased Loans and/or the Repurchase Documents, the
Buyers’ Pro Rata undivided ownership interests in and to the Purchased Loans, the Lien
created by this Agreement and its priority, or any of the Central Elements in respect of the
Seller or any of its Subsidiaries, or to preserve and protect the interest of the Buyers in
any of the foregoing.
22.6.
Buyers’ Cooperation. The Buyers agree to cooperate among themselves and with the
Administrative Agent and from time to time upon the Administrative Agent’s request, to execute and
deliver such papers as may be reasonably necessary to enable the Administrative Agent, in its
capacity as Administrative Agent, to effectively administer this Agreement and the other Repurchase
Documents, the Purchased Loans and each Buyer’s Pro Rata undivided ownership interest in the
Purchased Loans in the manner contemplated by this Agreement. The Administrative Agent and each of
the Buyers agree to provide notice to the other parties if they have actual knowledge of an Event
of Default at any time.
22.7.
Buyers’ Sharing Arrangement. Each of the Buyers agrees that if it should receive any
amount (whether by voluntary payment, realization upon security, the exercise of the right of
set-off, or otherwise) which is applicable to the payment of Repurchase Price, Margin Deficit,
Pricing Differential or any fees, that with respect to the related sum or sums received (or
receivable) by the other Buyers is in greater proportion than that Buyer’s Pro Rata ownership of
the Purchased Loans, then such Buyer receiving such excess amount shall purchase from the other
Buyers an participation interest in the Purchased Loans in such amount as shall result in Pro Rata
participation and ownership by all of the Buyers in such excess amount; provided that if all or any
portion of such excess amount is thereafter recovered from such Buyer, such purchase shall be
rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery; and provided further that
the provisions of this Section 22.7 shall not apply to the Administrative Agent’s Fee under this
Agreement or to any fees which the Custodian or any successor custodian might be paid pursuant to
the Custody Agreement.
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22.8.
Buyers’ Acknowledgment. Each Buyer other than U.S. Bank and JPM hereby acknowledges
that U.S. Bank and JPM have made no representations or warranties with respect to any Purchased
Loan other than as expressly set forth in this Agreement and that U.S. Bank
and JPM shall have no responsibility (each in its capacity as a Buyer, the Administrative
Agent, Syndication Agent or any other capacity or role) for:
(a) the marketability or collectability of the Purchased Loans;
(b) the genuineness, validity, likelihood of performance as and when due or
enforceability of any Investor Commitment or the solvency or performance record of any
Approved Investor;
(c) the validity, enforceability or any legal effect of any of the Repurchase
Documents, any Loan Papers or any insurance, bond or similar device purportedly protecting
any obligation to the Buyers or any Purchased Loans; or
(d) the financial condition of the Seller or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates, the
status, health or viability of any industry in which any of them is involved, the prospects
for repurchase of the Purchased Loans, the genuineness, validity or enforceability of any
warehousing facility or repurchase agreement between the Seller and any other lender or
repurchase agreement counterparty, the value of any Purchased Loans, the effectiveness of
any of the provisions of the Repurchase Documents (including the financial covenants, tests
and hedging requirements) or any aspect of their implementation or administration at any
time to reduce or control risks of any type, to produce returns, profits, yields or spreads
or to reduce or control losses or the accuracy of any information supplied by or to be
supplied in connection with any of the Seller or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or
Affiliates, or otherwise with respect to this Agreement, any Purchased Loans or any source
of equity or other financing for any of the Seller, any of its Affiliates or any other
warehouse lender or repurchase agreement counterparty.
22.9.
Administrative Agent and Syndication Agent Market Value Determinations. The parties
hereto agree and acknowledge that, in determining the Market Value of the Purchased Loans, each of
the Administrative Agent and the Syndication Agent (i) shall determine Market Value as a third
party service provider, in accordance with standards customarily applicable in the financial
industry to third party service providers providing values on comparable assets to be used in
connection with the financing of such assets, and (ii) shall not be obligated to do that same or
similar amount of work or analysis as if it were valuing its own assets, or as if it were valuing
such assets for the purchase or sale thereof by it or any other party. The parties hereto agree
and acknowledge that any asset valuation information produced by the Administrative Agent or the
Syndication Agent is intended to be and should be used solely for the limited uses specified in
this Agreement and the other Repurchase Documents, and is not intended to be and should not be used
by any Person for any other purpose. The parties hereto further agree and acknowledge that the
Administrative Agent or the Syndication Agent may elect to determine the Market Value for any
Purchased Loan by determining the market bid price for a portfolio containing all Purchased Loans
and allocating such portfolio market bid price among each individual Purchased Loan.
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(a) the Administrative Agent has delivered to each Buyer true copies of the originals
of those Repurchase Documents which have been specifically requested by that Buyer; and
(b) the Administrative Agent has no current actual knowledge that any Default or Event
of Default has occurred and is continuing on the Effective Date.
22.11.
Administrative Agent’s Duty of Care, Express Negligence Waiver and Release. At all
times until all Purchased Loans have all been repurchased by the Seller and the Buyers have no
further commitments or other obligations under this Agreement and the other Repurchase Documents,
the Administrative Agent shall exercise the same degree of care in handling the Purchased Loans as
U.S. BANK exercises with respect to loans that are held solely by U.S. BANK for its own account,
and the Administrative Agent, in its capacity as Administrative Agent shall have no responsibility
to the Buyers other than to exercise such standard of care and, in any event, U.S. BANK shall have
no liability with respect to any other Buyer’s Pro Rata interest in the Purchased Loans except for
U.S. BANK’s own fraud, gross negligence or willful misconduct. Except in the case of its own
fraud, gross negligence or willful misconduct, neither the Administrative Agent, any Buyer, nor any
of their officers, directors, employees, attorneys or Administrative Agents shall be liable for any
action taken or omitted to be taken by it or them under this Agreement, the Custody Agreement or
any of the other Repurchase Documents reasonably believed by it or them to be within the discretion
or power conferred upon it or them by the Repurchase Documents or be responsible for consequences
of any error of judgment, the Buyers expressly intending to hereby waive and release all present
and future claims and rights against the Administrative Agent (i) owed, in whole or in part, under
any claim or theory of strict liability or (ii) for damages or injuries caused or contributed to by
any Indemnified Party’s sole or concurrent ordinary negligence that does not amount to gross
negligence or willful misconduct. Except as otherwise specifically and expressly set forth in this
Agreement, the Administrative Agent shall not be responsible in any manner to anyone for the
effectiveness, enforceability, genuineness, validity or due execution of this Agreement, any
supplement, amendment or restatement of it or of any other Repurchase Documents or for any
representation, warranty, document, certificate, report or statement made or furnished in, under or
in connection with this Agreement or any of the other Repurchase Documents or be under any
obligation to anyone to ascertain or to inquire as to the performance or observation of any of the
terms, covenants or conditions of this Agreement or of the other Repurchase Documents on the part
of the Seller or anyone else. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing provisions of this
Section, the Administrative Agent, in its capacity as Administrative Agent, may seek and rely upon
the advice of legal counsel in taking or refraining to take any action under any of the Repurchase
Documents or otherwise in respect of any Purchased Loans, this Agreement and its parties, and shall
be fully protected in relying upon such advice.
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(a)
The syndication agent shall have no obligations under this agreement except for those explicitly
set forth herein. Except in the case of its own fraud, gross negligence or willful misconduct,
neither the Syndication Agent nor any of its officers, directors, employees, attorneys
or agents shall be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it or them under this
Agreement or any of the other Repurchase Documents reasonably believed by it or them to be within
the discretion or power conferred upon it or them by the Repurchase Documents or be responsible for
consequences of any error of judgment, the Buyers and the Administrative Agent expressly intending
to hereby waive and release all present and future claims and rights against the Syndication Agent
(i) owed, in whole or in part, under any claim or theory of strict liability or (ii) for damages or
injuries caused or contributed to by any Indemnified Party’s sole or concurrent ordinary negligence
that does not amount to gross negligence or willful misconduct. The Syndication Agent shall not be
responsible in any manner to anyone for the effectiveness, enforceability, genuineness, validity or
due execution of this Agreement, any supplement, amendment or restatement of it or of any other
Repurchase Documents or for any representation, warranty, document, certificate, report or
statement made or furnished in, under or in connection with this Agreement or any of the other
Repurchase Documents or be under any obligation to anyone to ascertain or to inquire as to the
performance or observation of any of the terms, covenants or conditions of this Agreement or of the
other Repurchase Documents on the part of the Seller or anyone else. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing provisions of this Section, the Syndication Agent, in its capacity as
Syndication Agent, may seek and rely upon the advice of legal counsel in taking or refraining to
take any action under any of the Repurchase Documents or otherwise in respect of any Purchased
Loans, this Agreement and its parties, and shall be fully protected in relying upon such advice.
(b) Any Person into which the Syndication Agent may be merged or converted or with which it
may be consolidated, or any Person surviving or resulting from any merger, conversion or
consolidation to which the Syndication Agent shall be a party or any Person succeeding to the
commercial banking business of the Syndication Agent, shall be the successor Syndication Agent
without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties.
22.13.
Calculations of Shares of Principal and Other Sums. Except as provided to the
contrary in Section 6.4 (“Increased Cost”), Section 6.5 (“Capital Adequacy”), Section 7.1
(“Payments to be free of Taxes; Withholding”), Section 7.3 (“Taxes Indemnity”), Section 9.2
(“Administrative Agent’s Fee”) and Section 20 (“Payment of Expenses; Indemnity”), U.S. Bank’s and
each other Buyer’s respective shares of Repurchase Prices and other sums received by the
Administrative Agent on account of the Purchased Loans or with respect to them shall be calculated
on the basis of each Buyer’s (including U.S. Bank’s) respective Pro Rata ownership interests in the
Purchased Loans from time to time.
22.14.
Resignation or Removal of the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent,
or any agent or agents hereafter appointed, at any time may resign by giving written notice of
resignation to the Seller and the Buyers and complying with the applicable provisions of this
Section 22. The Required Buyers may remove the Administrative Agent for acts constituting gross
negligence or willful misconduct by giving notice to the Administrative Agent, the Buyers and the
Seller. Upon receiving such notice of resignation or removal, with the Seller’s consent,
which consent shall not unreasonably be delayed or withheld (provided that the Seller’s consent
shall not be required if a Default has occurred that has not been cured by the Seller or declared
in writing by the Administrative Agent to have been waived or any Event of Default has occurred
that the Administrative Agent has not declared in writing to have been cured or waived), a
successor Administrative Agent shall be promptly appointed by the Required Buyers by written
instrument, in duplicate, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the resigning or
removed Administrative Agent and one copy to the successor Administrative Agent.
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22.15.
Effective Date of Resignation of the Administrative Agent. No resignation or
removal of the Administrative Agent shall be effective until both (i) sixty (60) days have elapsed
after notice to the Seller and the Buyers of the Administrative Agent’s election to resign or its
removal, and (ii) a successor agent has been appointed pursuant to the provisions of this Section
22 and has accepted the appointment as provided in Section 22.12; provided that if such appointment
has not been so made or if the Administrative Agent’s duties have not been assumed by the appointed
successor on or before ninety (90) days after the date of the Administrative Agent’s notice of
resignation, the Administrative Agent may cease acting as agent and representative of the Buyers
hereunder, and shall have no further responsibility therefor, at the close of business on the tenth
(10th) Business Day after such ninety-day period.
22.16.
Successor Administrative Agent. Any successor Administrative Agent appointed
as provided in this Section shall execute and deliver to the Seller, the Buyers and to the
predecessor Administrative Agent an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the
resignation of the predecessor Administrative Agent shall become effective and such successor
Administrative Agent, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the
rights and obligations of its predecessor, with like effect as if originally named as the
Administrative Agent; provided that upon the written request of the Seller, all of the Buyers or
the successor Administrative Agent, the resigning Administrative Agent shall execute and deliver
(a) an instrument transferring to such successor Administrative Agent all of the rights of the
resigning Administrative Agent and (b) to such successor Administrative Agent such instruments as
are necessary to transfer the Purchased Loans and the Repurchase Documents to such successor
Administrative Agent (including assignments of all Purchased Loans or Repurchase Documents)
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Upon the request of any such successor Administrative Agent made from time to time, the Seller
shall execute any and all papers which the successor Administrative Agent shall request or require
to more fully and certainly vest in and confirm to such successor Administrative Agent all such
rights.
22.17.
Merger of the Administrative Agent. Any Person into which the Administrative
Agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any Person surviving or
resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Administrative Agent shall be a
party or any Person succeeding to the commercial banking business of the Administrative Agent,
shall be the successor Administrative Agent without the execution or filing of any paper or any
further act on the part of any of the parties.
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(a)
Participations. Each Buyer reserves the rights, without the consent of
the Seller, to sell to one or more banks or other entities (a “Participant”), participations
in all or any part of such Buyer’s Commitment and Pro Rata ownership share of the Purchased
Loans or to pledge, collaterally assign or grant a security interest in any or all of its
interests under this Agreement and in the Purchased Loans to any Federal Reserve Bank or any
other Person; provided that no such pledge, collateral assignment or grant of a security
interest shall release a Buyer from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute
any such pledgee or assignee for such Buyer as a party hereto. Participants
shall have no rights under the Repurchase Documents other than certain voting rights as
provided below. Each Buyer shall be entitled to obtain (on behalf of its
Participants) the benefits of this Agreement with respect to all Participants in its Funding
Shares of Open Transactions outstanding from time to time; provided that the Seller shall
not be obligated to pay any amount in excess of the amount that would be due such Buyer
calculated as though no participation had been sold. No Buyer shall sell any
participating interest under which the Participant shall have any rights to approve any
amendment, modification or waiver of any Repurchase Documents, except to the extent such
amendment, modification or waiver requires the consent of all Buyers under Section 22.3
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In those cases (if any) where a Buyer grants rights to any of its Participants to
approve amendments, modifications or waivers of any Repurchase Documents pursuant to the
immediately preceding sentence, such Buyer must include a voting mechanism as to all such
approval rights in the relevant participation agreement(s) whereby a readily-determinable
fraction of such Buyer’s portion of the Purchased Loans (whether held by such Buyer or
participated) shall control the vote for all of such Buyer’s portion of the Purchased Loans;
provided that if no such voting mechanism is provided for or is fully and immediately
effective, then the vote of such Buyer itself shall be the vote for all of such Buyer’s
portion of the Purchased Loans. Except in the case of the sale of a participating
interest to a Buyer, the relevant participation agreement shall not permit the participant
to transfer, pledge, assign, sell any subparticipation in or otherwise alienate or encumber
its participation interest in the Purchased Loans. In no event may a Participant
be an Affiliate of the Seller.
(b)
Assignments. Without any requirements for further consent of the Seller,
any Buyer may assign any or all of its rights and obligations under the Repurchase Documents
to its own Buyer Affiliates or to an assignee that is a Buyer with a Commitment hereunder
immediately prior to giving effect to such assignment. With the prior written
consent of the Administrative Agent, the Syndication Agent and (unless an Event of Default
has occurred that the Administrative Agent has not declared in writing to have been cured or
waived) the Seller, which consent of the Seller will not be unreasonably withheld, and at no
cost to the Seller or the Administrative Agent, any Buyer may assign any or all of its
rights and obligations under the Repurchase Documents to one or more assignees; provided
that (1) except in the case of an assignment to a Buyer or a Buyer Affiliate or an
assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Buyer’s Committed Sum, no such
assignment shall be in an amount less than Fifteen Million Dollars ($15,000,000), unless
each of the Administrative Agent, the Syndication Agent and (unless a Default or Event of
Default has occurred and continuing) the Seller consents thereto, (2) each partial
assignment shall be made as an assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning
Buyer’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, (3) the assignee, if it is not a Buyer
hereunder immediately prior to giving effect to such assignment, shall deliver to the
Administrative Agent an administrative questionnaire in which the assignee designates one or
more credit contacts to whom all syndicate-level information (which may contain material
non-public information about the Seller and its Affiliates or their respective securities)
will be made available and who may receive such information in accordance with the
assignee’s compliance procedures and applicable laws, including Federal
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laws, (4) the assignee may not be an Affiliate of the Seller and (5) each such assignment
shall be effected pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption substantially in the form of
Exhibit F, to be delivered to the Administrative Agent together with a processing and
recording fee of $3,500 (which shall not be applicable with respect to the initial
syndication of the Transactions), with the assignor to have no further right or obligation
with respect to the rights and obligations assigned to and assumed by the assignee.
The Seller agrees that, as to any assignment to any Buyer Affiliate or if the Seller
consents to any other assignment, the Seller will cooperate with the prompt execution and
delivery of documents reasonably necessary to such assignment process to the extent that the
Seller incurs no cost or expense that is not paid by the assigning Buyer and the assignee
immediately upon delivery to the Seller of such assignment form. Subject to
acceptance and recording thereof pursuant to Section 22.18(d), from and after the effective
date specified in each Assignment and Assumption, the assignee shall be a Buyer for all
purposes under this Agreement and the other Repurchase Documents, if the assignment is an
assignment of all of the assignor’s interest in the Purchased Loans then held by the
Administrative Agent (or by the Custodian on behalf of the Administrative Agent), the
assignor shall be automatically released from all of its obligations and liabilities
hereunder, and, whether it is such a complete assignment or only a partial assignment, the
Committed Sums shall be adjusted appropriately, and the parties agree to approve in writing
a revised and updated version of Schedule BC. Any assignment or transfer by a
Buyer of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this Section
22.18(b) shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Buyer of a
participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with Section 22.18(a).
(c) The Administrative Agent, acting for this purpose as an Administrative Agent of the
Seller, shall maintain at one of its offices a copy of each Assignment and Assumption
delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Buyers,
and the Committed Sum of, and amount owing to, each Buyer pursuant to the terms hereof from
time to time the (the “Register”). The entries in the Register shall be
conclusive, and the Seller, the Administrative Agent and the Buyers may treat each Person
whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Buyer hereunder for
all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. The
Register shall be available for inspection by the Seller and any Buyer, at any reasonable
time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.
(d) Upon its receipt of a duly completed Assignment and Assumption executed by an
assigning Buyer and an assignee, the assignee’s completed administrative questionnaire
(unless the assignee shall already be a Buyer hereunder), the processing and recordation fee
referred to in Section 22.18(b) and any written consent to such assignment required by
Section 22.18(b) hereof, the Administrative Agent shall accept such Assignment and
Assumption and record the information contained therein in the Register; provided that if
either the assigning Buyer or the assignee shall have failed to make any payment required to
be made by it hereunder, the Administrative Agent shall have no obligation to accept such
Assignment and Assumption and record the information therein in the Register unless and
until such payment shall have been made in full, together with all accrued interest
thereon. No assignment shall be effective for
purposes of this Agreement unless it has been recorded in the Register as provided in
this Section.
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(e) If any interest in this Agreement is so transferred to any Person that is organized
under the Legal Requirements of any jurisdiction other than the United States of America or
any State thereof, the transferor Buyer shall cause such Person, concurrently with the
effectiveness of such transfer to comply with the relevant provisions of Section 7.5.
(f) The Seller shall not be required to incur any cost or expense incident to any sale
to a Person of any interest in the Repurchase Documents and the Purchased Loans pursuant to
this Section 22 and all such costs and expenses shall be for the account of the Buyer
selling its rights in the Purchased Loans to such Person.
All notices, demands, consents, requests and other communications required or permitted to be
given or made hereunder (collectively, “Notices”), except as otherwise specifically provided in
this Agreement, shall be in writing and shall be either (a) delivered in person, or (b) mailed, by
certified, registered or express mail, postage prepaid, addressed to the respective parties hereto
at their respective addresses specified below, or (c) sent in a prepaid overnight delivery envelope
via a nationally-recognized courier service (such as Federal Express, United Parcel Service or DHL
Worldwide Express) that provides weekday next-Business Day delivery service to the addressee’s
location, (d) faxed to their respective fax numbers (with a paper copy mailed the same day as
aforesaid) as hereinafter set forth or (e) emailed (with a confirming fax for any funding request)
and/or posted to an Internet or intranet website and acknowledged as received as hereinafter set
forth; provided that any party may change its address for notice by designating such party’s new
address in a Notice to the other parties given at least five (5) Business Days before it shall
become effective. All Notices shall be conclusively deemed to have been properly given or served
when received in person, regardless of how sent. Regardless of when received, all Notices shall be
conclusively deemed to have been properly given or served if addressed in accordance with this
Section 23 and (1) if mailed, on the second (2nd) Business Day after being deposited in the mails,
or (2) if sent by nationally-recognized courier service, on the next Business Day or (3) if faxed
before the close of business at the recipient’s location on a Business Day, when faxed or if faxed
after the close of business at the recipient’s location or on a day that is not a Business Day, on
the next Business Day thereafter to the fax number set forth below (provided that a paper copy is
mailed on the same day as aforesaid) or (4) if e-mailed, upon the sender’s receipt of an
acknowledgement from the intended recipient (such as by the “return receipt requested” function, as
available, return e-mail or other written acknowledgement), provided that if any such faxed or
emailed notice or other communication is not sent during the normal business hours of the
recipient, such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been sent at the
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business on the next business day for the recipient, and (5) notices or communications posted to an internet or intranet website shall be deemed
received upon the “receipt” by the intended recipient at its e-mail address as described in
clause (4) above of notification that such notice or communication is available and identifying the
website address therefor:
If to the Seller:
DHI Mortgage Company, Ltd.
00000 Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx X000
Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxx Xxxxxx
Telephone:
Fax:
email:
If to U.S. Bank as Administrative Agent or as a Buyer:
U.S. Bank National Association
800 Nicollet Mall
Mail Station: BC-MN-H03B
Xxxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention:
Telephone:
Fax:
email:
with copies to:
If to JPMorgan as the Syndication Agent or as a Buyer:
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
717 Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx 00000 (for messenger deliveries)
X.X. Xxx 0000
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx 00000 (for mail deliveries)
Attention: Xxxxxxxxx X. Xxxx, Managing Director
Corporate Mortgage Finance Group
Telephone: 000-000-0000
Fax: 000-000-0000, attention: Xxxxxxxxx X. Xxxx
email: xxxxxxxxx.x.xxxx@xxxxx.xxx
with copies to: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
Telephone: 000-000-0000
Fax: 000-000-0000
email: xxxxxx.x.xxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
If to the other Buyers, at the addresses shown on Schedule 23.
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24.1.
Further Assurances. At any time and from time to time, at the sole expense of the
Seller, the Seller or the Servicer shall promptly provide such further reasonable assurances,
documents and agreements and undertake such actions as the Administrative Agent may reasonably
request in order to effect the purposes of this Agreement, including the assignment, conveyance and
transfer of all right, title and interest of each Purchased Loan from the Seller to the
Administrative Agent, or to otherwise obtain or preserve the benefits or rights granted under this
Agreement. In the event Seller, Servicer or any subservicer, in the performance of the Servicing
Functions shall foreclose any Mortgage for which the Administrative Agent and the Buyers have not
received the Repurchase Price, all such actions shall be taken in the name of the Administrative
Agent for the benefit of the Buyers and in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices.
24.2.
Administrative Agent as Attorney in Fact. The Administrative Agent is hereby appointed
the attorney-in-fact of the Seller for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Agreement
and taking any action and executing any instruments or documents that the Administrative Agent may
deem reasonably necessary or advisable to accomplish the purposes hereof, which appointment as
attorney-in-fact is irrevocable and coupled with an interest, although the Administrative Agent
agrees not to exercise its rights under this power of attorney unless, in its opinion or the
opinion of its legal counsel, an Event of Default has occurred that the Administrative Agent has
not declared in writing to have been cured or waived. Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, but subject to Section 18.3, the Administrative Agent shall have the right and power
during the occurrence and continuation of any Event of Default to receive, endorse, collect and
control all checks or instruments made payable to the order of the Seller and all other forms of
payment to the Seller that represent any payment on account of the principal of or interest on or
proceeds from any of the Purchased Loans and to give full discharge for the same.
24.3.
Wires to Seller. Any amounts to be transferred by the Administrative Agent to the
Seller hereunder shall be sent by journal entry (or wire transfer) in immediately available funds
to the account of Seller as follows:
Bank: U.S. Bank
ABA No.: 000000000
Account: DHI Mortgage Company, Ltd.
Account No.: 104790245344
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24.4.
Wires to Administrative Agent. Any amounts to be transferred by the Seller to the
Administrative Agent hereunder shall be sent by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the
account of the Administrative Agent as follows:
U.S. Bank National Association
ABA number: 000000000
Attention: Mortgage Banking Services
Account No. 104756234365
DHI Mortgage Company, Ltd. Repurchase Settlement Account
24.5.
Receipt; Available Funds. Amounts received after 1:00 p.m. Minneapolis time on any
Business Day shall be deemed to have been paid and received on the next succeeding Business Day.
All payments and transfers of cash pursuant to this Agreement shall be made (only if the paying and
receiving accounts are with the same financial institution) by journal entries, or (otherwise) by
wire transfer, of immediately available funds in U.S. dollars.
This Agreement supersedes any existing agreements between the parties containing general terms
and conditions for repurchase transactions. This Agreement may not be amended, modified or
supplemented except in accordance with the provisions of Section 22 and such amendment,
modification or supplement must be set forth in a writing signed by the parties required to do so
in accordance with Section 22. Each provision and agreement herein shall be treated as separate
and independent from any other provision or agreement herein and shall be enforceable
notwithstanding the unenforceability of any such other provision or agreement.
26.1.
Limited Assignment. Except with respect to any repurchase transaction, sale, transfer,
pledge or hypothecation by the Administrative Agent or any Buyer pursuant to Section 14 and Section
22.17, the rights and obligations of the parties under this Agreement and under any Transaction
shall not be assigned by any party without the prior written consent of the other parties and any
such assignment without the prior written consent of the other parties shall be null and void.
Subject to the foregoing, this Agreement and any Transactions shall bind and benefit the parties
and their respective successors and assigns.
26.2.
Remedies Exception. Section 26.1 shall not preclude a party from assigning, charging or
otherwise dealing with all or any part of its interest in any sum payable to it under Section 18.
26.3.
Agreement Termination. This Agreement shall terminate, automatically and without any
requirement for notice, on the date after the Termination Date on which all Obligations have been
indefeasibly paid in full,
provided, that the provisions of Sections 6.4, 6.5, 7 and 20
shall survive the termination of this Agreement,
provided further, that this
Agreement and any Open Transactions may be extended by mutual agreement of the Buyers, the
Administrative Agent and the Seller; and
provided further, that no such party shall be
obligated to agree to such an extension.
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This Agreement may be executed 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.
This Agreement (including this choice-of-law provision) and the other Repurchase Documents
shall be governed by and construed and all controversies and disputes arising under, in connection
with or relating to this Agreement and the other Repurchase Documents shall be resolved, in
accordance with the laws of the State of New York (pursuant to Section 5-1401 of the New York
General Obligations Law to the extent such laws would otherwise not apply) and the United States of
America applicable to contracts made and to be wholly performed within such State. The Seller, the
Administrative Agent and the Buyers each hereby irrevocably submits to the nonexclusive
jurisdiction and venue of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
located in the Borough of Manhattan Division in the City of New York or, if such court does not
have jurisdiction, the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County for the purpose of
any action or other proceeding arising under, in connection with or relating to the Repurchase
Documents or any related Transaction, pursuant to Section 5-1402 of the New York General
Obligations Law to the extent such submission would otherwise not be effective. To the fullest
extent permitted by applicable law, the Seller, the Administrative Agent and the Buyers each
irrevocably waives any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue for any
such proceeding brought in such a court and any claim that any such proceeding brought in such a
court has been brought in an inconvenient forum and agrees that service of process may be made upon
it in any such proceeding by registered or certified mail. Nothing herein shall affect any
applicable right of any party at any time to initiate any suit in the United States District Court
for the Southern District of
New York, Manhattan Division, or to remove any pending suit to that
court. Nothing herein shall affect the right of the Administrative Agent or any Buyer to
accomplish service of process in any manner permitted by applicable law or to commence legal
proceedings or otherwise proceed against the Seller in any other jurisdiction or court.
Each of the Seller (in its capacity as Seller and Servicer), the Buyers and the Administrative
Agent hereby (i) covenants and agrees not to elect a trial by jury of any issue triable of right by
a jury, and (ii) waives any right to trial by jury fully to the extent that any such right shall
now or hereafter exist. This waiver of right to trial by jury is separately given, knowingly and
voluntarily, by each of the Seller, the Buyers and the Administrative Agent, and this waiver is
intended to encompass individually each instance and each issue as to which the right of a jury
trial would otherwise accrue. The Administrative Agent is hereby authorized and requested to
submit this Agreement to any court having jurisdiction over the subject matter and the parties
hereto, so as to serve as conclusive evidence of the foregoing waiver of the right to jury trial.
Further, the Seller hereby certifies that no representative or agent of the Buyers or the
Administrative Agent
has represented, expressly or otherwise, to any stockholder, director, officer, agent or
representative of the Seller that the Buyers or the Administrative Agent will not seek to enforce
this waiver of right to jury trial provision.
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30 Relationship of the Parties.
This Agreement provides for the sale by the Seller and the purchase by the Buyers (acting
through their agent and representative, the Administrative Agent) of Eligible Loans and the
obligation of the Seller to repurchase them upon termination of each Transaction. The relationship
between the Seller and the Buyers (and the Administrative Agent) is limited to that of seller and
repurchaser on the one hand and Buyers and resellers (and the Administrative Agent as the Buyers’
agent and representative) on the other. The provisions in this Agreement and the other Repurchase
Documents for compliance with financial covenants and delivery of financial statements are intended
solely for the benefit of the Buyers, the Administrative Agent and the Syndication Agent to protect
the interests of the Buyers as buyers, including their and the Administrative Agent’s and
Syndication Agent’s interest in assuring repurchase of Purchased Loans at the termination of each
Transaction, and nothing contained in this Agreement or any of the other Repurchase Documents shall
be construed as permitting or obligating any Buyer, the Administrative Agent or Syndication Agent
to act as a financial or business advisor or consultant to the Seller, as permitting or obligating
any Buyer, the Administrative Agent or Syndication Agent to control the Seller or to conduct the
Seller’s operations, as creating any fiduciary obligation on the part of the Buyers, the
Administrative Agent or the Syndication Agent to the Seller, or as creating any joint venture,
agency or other relationship between the parties other than as explicitly and specifically stated
in this Agreement. The Seller acknowledges that it has had the opportunity to obtain the advice of
experienced counsel of its own choosing in connection with the negotiation and execution of this
Agreement and the other Repurchase Documents and to obtain the advice of such counsel with respect
to all matters contained in the Repurchase Documents including the provision for waiver of trial by
jury. The Seller further acknowledges that it is experienced with respect to financial and credit
matters and has made its own independent decisions to apply to the Buyers, the Administrative Agent
and the Syndication Agent to enter into this Agreement, and to execute and deliver this Agreement
and the other Repurchase Documents.
No express or implied waiver of any Event of Default by any party shall constitute a waiver of
any other Event of Default and no exercise of any remedy hereunder by any party shall constitute a
waiver of its right to exercise any other remedy hereunder. No modification or waiver of any
provision of this Agreement and no consent by any party to a departure herefrom shall be effective
unless and until such shall be in writing and duly executed by the Seller and the parties required
to do so pursuant to Section 22. Without limitation on any of the foregoing, the failure to give a
notice pursuant to Section (c) or 7 will not constitute a waiver of any right to do so at a later
date. The rights and remedies of the Buyers hereunder shall be cumulative and not exclusive of any
rights and remedies which the Buyers would otherwise have. No failure or delay on the part of the
Buyers in exercising any right, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor
shall any single or partial exercise of any right, power or
privilege hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any
other right, power or privilege.
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32.1.
Prohibited Transactions. If assets of an employee benefit plan subject to any provision
of ERISA are intended to be used by any party hereto (the “Plan Party”) in a Transaction, the Plan
Party shall so notify the other parties prior to the Transaction. The Plan Party shall represent
in writing to the other parties that the Transaction does not constitute a prohibited transaction
under ERISA or is otherwise exempt therefrom, and the other parties may proceed in reliance thereon
but shall not be required so to proceed.
32.2.
Audited Financial Statements Required. Subject to the last sentence of Section 32.1,
any such Transaction shall proceed only if the Seller furnishes or has furnished to the
Administrative Agent its most recent available audited statement of its financial condition and its
most recent subsequent unaudited statement of its financial condition.
32.3.
Representations. By entering into a Transaction pursuant to this Section 32, the Seller
shall be deemed (i) to represent to the Buyers and the Administrative Agent that since the date of
the Seller’s
latest such financial statements, there has been no material adverse change in the Seller’s
financial condition which the Seller has not disclosed to the Administrative Agent, and (ii) to
agree to provide the Administrative Agent with future audited and unaudited statements of its
financial condition as they are issued, so long as it is a Seller in any Open Transaction involving
a Plan Party.
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33.1.
Transactions are Repurchase Agreements and Securities Contracts. The parties intend
and acknowledge that each Transaction is a “repurchase agreement” as such term is defined in
Section 101 of the Bankruptcy Code (except insofar as the type of Eligible Loans subject to such
Transaction or the term of such Transaction would render such definition inapplicable), and a
“securities contract” as that term is defined in Section 741 of the Bankruptcy Code (except insofar
as the type of assets subject to such Transaction would render such definition inapplicable). This
Agreement also constitutes a “netting contract” as defined in and subject to Title IV of the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 (“
FDICIA”) and each payment
entitlement and payment obligation under any Transaction hereunder shall constitute a “covered
contractual payment entitlement” or “covered contractual payment obligation”, respectively, as
defined in and subject to FDICIA (except insofar as any or all of the parties is not a “financial
institution” as that term is defined in FDICIA). Seller hereby agrees that it shall not challenge
the characterization of this Agreement as a “repurchase agreement” as that term is defined in
Section 101 of the Bankruptcy Code, or as a “securities contract” as that term is defined in
Section 741 of the Bankruptcy Code in any dispute or proceeding.
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33.2.
Contractual Rights, Etc. Any party’s right to liquidate Eligible Loans delivered to it
in connection with Transactions hereunder or to exercise any other remedies pursuant to Section 18,
is a contractual right to liquidate, terminate or accelerate such Transaction as described in
Sections 555, 559 and 561 of the Bankruptcy Code.
33.3.
FDIA. If a party hereto is an “insured depository institution,” as such term is defined
in the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, as amended (“
FDIA”), then each Transaction hereunder is a
“qualified financial contract,” as that term is defined in FDIA and any rules, orders or policy
statements thereunder (except insofar as the type of assets subject to such Transaction would
render such definition inapplicable).
33.4.
Master Netting Agreement. It is understood and agreed that this Agreement constitutes a
“master netting agreement” as that term is defined in Section 101 of the Bankruptcy Code, and that
a party’s right to cause the termination, liquidation, or acceleration of, or to offset net
termination values,
payment amounts or other transfer obligations arising under or in connection with, this
Agreement or any Transaction is a contractual right to cause the termination, liquidation, or
acceleration of, or to offset net termination values, payment amounts or other transfer obligations
arising under or in connection with, this Agreement or any Transaction as described in Section 561
of the Bankruptcy Code.
The parties acknowledge that they have been advised that:
34.1. Parties not Protected by SIPA or Insured by FDIC or NCUSIF. In the case of Transactions
in which one of the parties is a broker or dealer registered with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (“SEC”) under Section 15 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“1934 Act”), the
Securities Investor Protection Corporation has taken the position that the provisions of SIPA do
not protect the other party with respect to any Transaction hereunder.
34.3.
Transaction Funds Are Not Insured Deposits. In the case of Transactions in which one of
the parties is a financial institution, funds held by such financial institution pursuant to a
Transaction hereunder are not a deposit and therefore are not insured by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation (through either the Bank Insurance Fund or the Savings Association Insurance
Fund) or the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, as applicable.
The Administrative Agent and the Buyers hereby notify the Seller that, pursuant to the
requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26,
2001)), the Administrative Agent or the Buyers are required to obtain, verify and record
information that identifies the Seller, including the Seller’s name and address and other
information that will allow them to identify the Seller in accordance with said Act.
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BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
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LLOYDS TSB BANK PLC, as a Buyer
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COMERICA BANK, as a Buyer
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EXHIBIT A
TO Master Repurchase Agreement
FORM OF REQUEST/CONFIRMATION
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DHI Mortgage Company, Ltd. |
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Mortgage Banking Services BC-MN-H03B |
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Suite C-150 |
Minneapolis, MN 55402 |
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Xxxxxx, XX 00000 |
Attention: Xxxxx Xxxxxx |
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Attention: Xxxx Xxxxx |
Phone: 000-000-0000 |
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Email: Xxxxx.Xxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx |
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Please refer to the Master Repurchase Agreement dated March 27, 2008 among DHI Mortgage
Company, Ltd. (the “Seller”), U.S. Bank National Association (“U.S. Bank”), as a buyer and as agent
and representative of the other buyers party thereto (in that capacity, U.S. Bank is referred to as
the Administrative Agent), JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, as Syndication Agent and a
Buyer, and such other buyers (such other buyers together with the Administrative Agent and the
Syndication Agent are referred to as the “Buyers”) which, as it may have been or may hereafter be
supplemented, amended or restated from time to time, is herein called the “Current Repurchase
Agreement”. Any term defined in the Current Repurchase Agreement and used in this request shall
have the meaning given to it in the Current Repurchase Agreement.
The Seller currently qualifies under the Current Repurchase Agreement for, and hereby
requests, purchases as set forth below (the “Requested Purchases”) to be made on the following
Purchase Date: , 20
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(which must be a Business Day).
The Pricing Rates for this Transaction shall be determined from time to time in accordance
with the definition of that term in the Current Repurchase Agreement and the provisions of Section
5 of the Current Repurchase Agreement.
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The Buyers’ Margin Percentage, as specified in the definition of that term in the Current
Repurchase Agreement, is:
(i) for all Purchased Loans except Second Lien Loans, HELOCs, and Alt-A Non-Agency
Loans, ninety-five percent (95%);
(ii) for Second Lien Loans and HELOCs, ninety percent (90%); and
(iii) for Alt-A Non-Agency Loans, ninety-four percent (94%);
provided, however, that Buyer’s Margin Percentage will decrease by five
(5) percentage points for each 15 day period a Purchased Loan remains part of an Open
Transaction, beginning with the 60th day after the Purchase Date for such
Purchased Loan. For purposes of clarity the following example applies: A Conforming
Mortgage Loan with an initial Buyers’ Margin Percentage of 95% will on the 60th
day, have a reduced Buyer’s Margin Percentage of 90% and on the 75th day will
have a reduced Buyer’s Margin Percentage of 85%, and so on until it is no longer an Eligible
Loan.
After the Requested Purchases, the Aggregate Outstanding Purchase Price will not exceed the
Maximum Aggregate Commitment.
The Seller has delivered today multiple Mortgage Loan Transmission Files. All Loans listed in
such Mortgage Loan Transmission Files are Eligible Loans. For each of the Mortgage
Loans listed on the Mortgage Loan Transmission Files submitted in connection with this
Request/Confirmation:
Ex A-2
(a) the Basic Papers have been or will be executed and delivered by all appropriate
Persons.
(b) the Seller is electronically communicating to the Custodian a complete Mortgage
Loan Transmission File, and the information stated for such Mortgage Loan in such standard
Mortgage Loan Transmission File is correct and complete in accordance with the Record
Layout.
(c) such Mortgage Loan has been (or will be) originated, closed, funded and (if
applicable) negotiated and assigned to the Seller.
(d) for each such Mortgage Loan being offered a Dry Loan, the Basic Papers are being
concurrently delivered to the Custodian.
(e) for each Mortgage Loan being offered as a Wet Loan, the complete File for such
Mortgage Loan, including all Basic Papers and all Supplemental Papers, is or will be in the
possession of either that Mortgage Loan’s closer, the Seller or the Servicer or Subservicer
for that Mortgage Loan, its Basic Papers are in the process of being delivered to the
Custodian and such Basic Papers will be delivered to the Custodian on or before seven (7)
Business Days after the Purchase Date specified above.
Pursuant to the terms of the Custody Agreement and acknowledging and agreeing that new value,
as that term is used in the New York Uniform Commercial Code, has been given in reliance thereon,
the Seller hereby sells, negotiates and transfers to the Buyers the Mortgage Loans listed on the
attached Schedule of Mortgage Loans. The Seller acknowledges that the Administrative Agent and the
Buyers will rely on the truth of each statement in this Request/Confirmation and such Mortgage Loan
Transmission File in purchasing such Purchased Loans referred to herein.
The Purchase Prices for the Purchased Loans referred to herein should be deposited in the
Funding Account for payment as set forth on the instructions in the Mortgage Loan Transmission File
or such other account as indicated by the Seller.
No Default has occurred under the Repurchase Documents that has not been cured by the Seller
or declared in writing by the Administrative Agent to have been waived, and no Event of Default has
occurred under the Repurchase Documents that the Administrative Agent has not declared in writing
to have been cured or waived. There has been no material adverse change in any of the Central
Elements in respect of the Seller or any of its Subsidiaries since the date of the Seller’s most
recent annual audited Financial Statements that have been delivered to the Administrative Agent and
the Buyers.
All items that the Seller is required to furnish to the Buyers, the Administrative Agent or
the Custodian in connection with the Requested Purchases and otherwise have been delivered, or will
be delivered before the Purchase Date specified above, in all respects as required by the Current
Repurchase Agreement and the other Repurchase Documents. All documentation
described or referred to in the Mortgage Loan Transmission File submitted to the
Administrative Agent with this Request/Confirmation conform in all respects with all applicable
requirements of the Current Repurchase Agreement and the other Repurchase Documents.
Ex A-3
The Seller hereby warrants and represents to the Buyers and the Administrative Agent that none
of the Purchased Loans (including, but not limited to, Purchased Loans described or referred to in
this request) has been sold to any Person other than the Buyers, is pledged to any Person other
than Administrative Agent, for the benefit of itself and the Buyers, or supports any borrowing or
repurchase agreement funding other than purchases under the Current Repurchase Agreement.
The undersigned officer hereby certifies that all of the Seller’s representations and
warranties (a) in the Current Repurchase Agreement and all of the other Repurchase Documents
(except only to the extent that (i) such a representation or warranty speaks to a specific date or
(ii) the facts on which a representation or warranty is based have been changed by transactions or
conditions contemplated or expressly permitted by the Repurchase Documents) and (b) in this
request, are true and correct on the date of this request; and that the Seller qualifies for the
Requested Purchases.
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DHI Mortgage Company, Ltd.
By: DHI Mortgage Company GP, Inc. Its General Partner
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EXHIBIT B
TO Master Repurchase Agreement
OPINIONS REQUIRED FOR OPINION OF COUNSEL TO SELLER
1. The Seller is duly organized and validly existing as a limited partnership in good standing
under the laws of the State of Texas and has power and authority to enter into and perform its
obligations under and to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Repurchase Agreement and
the Custody Agreement and all other Repurchase Documents to which it is a party. The Seller is
duly qualified to do business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which the character
of the business transacted by it requires such qualification and in which the failure so to qualify
would have a material adverse effect on the business, properties, assets or condition (financial or
otherwise) of the Seller and its subsidiaries, considered as a whole.
2. The Repurchase Agreement and the Custody Agreement and all other Repurchase Documents to
which the Seller is a party have each been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Seller,
and each constitutes a valid and legally binding obligation of the Seller enforceable against the
Seller in accordance with its terms, subject, as to enforcement, to bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium and other laws of general applicability relating to or affecting
creditors’ rights generally and to general equity principles.
3. No consent, approval, authorization or order of any Texas state or federal court or
government agency or body is required to be obtained by the Seller for the execution, delivery or
performance of or the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Repurchase Agreement or
the Custody Agreement or any of the other Repurchase Documents.
4. The execution, delivery or performance of and the consummation of any of the transactions
contemplated by the Repurchase Agreement and the Custody Agreement and the other Repurchase
Documents will not conflict with, result in a breach of, or constitute a default under the limited
partnership agreement or any other organizational or governance document of the Seller or the terms
of any indenture or other material agreement or instrument known to such counsel to which the
Seller is party or bound, or any order known to such counsel to be applicable to the Seller or any
laws, rules or regulations applicable to the Seller, of any Texas state or federal court,
regulatory body, administrative agency, governmental body or arbitrator having jurisdiction over
Seller.
5. There is no pending or, to such counsel’s actual knowledge, threatened action, suit or
proceeding before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving
the Seller or relating to the Transactions contemplated by the Repurchase Agreement or the Custody
Agreement or any of the other Repurchase Documents which, if adversely determined, would have a
material adverse effect on the Seller.
6. In the event of a recharacterization of any Transaction under the Repurchase Agreement as a
financing rather than a purchase under applicable law, the Repurchase Agreement together with the
filing of a financing statement identifying all Eligible Loans
designated by the Seller from time to time as Purchased Loans purchased by the Administrative
Agent on behalf of the Buyers creates a valid, perfected nonpossessory security interest in such
Eligible Loans in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of itself and the Buyers.
Ex B-1
7. In the event of a recharacterization of any Transaction under the Repurchase Agreement as a
financing rather than a purchase under applicable law, the Repurchase Agreement together with
delivery to the Custodian of the Mortgage Notes related to Purchased Loans purchased by the Buyers
in Transactions from time to time creates a valid security interest perfected by possession in such
Purchased Loans in favor of the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Buyers.
8. In accordance with the provisions of Sections 559, 362(b)(7) and 362(o), respectively, of
the Bankruptcy Code, in the event Seller were to become a debtor in a voluntary or involuntary case
under the Bankruptcy Code, neither (i) the rights of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of
the Buyers to liquidate, terminate and/or accelerate the Repurchase Agreement because of a
condition of the kind specified in Section 365(e)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code, nor (ii) the rights of
the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Buyers to set off those Obligations of the Seller
that arise under or in connection with the Repurchase Agreement against cash, securities or other
property held by, pledged to, under the control of, or due from the Administrative Agent or Buyers
(or the Custodian on behalf of such parties) to margin, guarantee, secure or settle the Repurchase
Agreement, as the case may be, would be stayed, avoided or otherwise limited by operation of any
provision of the Bankruptcy Code, including, without limitation, Section 362(a) of the Bankruptcy
Code, or by order of a court or administrative agent in any proceeding under the United States
Bankruptcy Code.
9. In accordance with the provisions of Section 546(f) of the Bankruptcy Code, transfers by
Seller to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Buyers, made before the commencement of a
case against the Seller under the Bankruptcy Code, of cash or any Additional Purchased Loans to
cure a Margin Deficit would not be avoidable under Section 547 of the Bankruptcy Code.
Ex B-2
EXHIBIT C
TO Master Repurchase Agreement
FORM OF OFFICER’S CERTIFICATE WITH COMPUTATIONS
TO SHOW COMPLIANCE OR NON-COMPLIANCE WITH
CERTAIN FINANCIAL COVENANTS
OFFICER’S CERTIFICATE
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT: U.S. Bank National Association
SELLER: DHI MORTGAGE COMPANY, LTD.
SUBJECT PERIOD: ended , 200
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DATE: , 200
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This certificate is delivered to the Administrative Agent and the Buyers under the Master
Repurchase Agreement dated as of March 27, 2008 (as supplemented, amended or restated from time to
time, the “Current Repurchase Agreement”), among the Seller, the Administrative Agent and the
Buyers from time to time party thereto. Unless they are otherwise defined in this request, terms
defined in the Current Repurchase Agreement have the same meanings here as there.
The undersigned officer of the Seller certifies to the Administrative Agent that on the date
of this certificate that:
1. The undersigned is an incumbent officer of the Seller, holding the title stated below the
undersigned’s signature below.
2. The Seller’s Financial Statements that are attached to this certificate were prepared in
accordance with GAAP (except that interim i.e., other than annual Financial Statements exclude
notes to Financial Statements and statements of changes to stockholders’ equity and are subject to
year-end adjustments) and (subject to the aforesaid proviso as to interim Financial Statements)
present fairly the Seller’s financial condition and results of operations as of
for that month (the “Subject Period”) and for the year to that date.
3. The undersigned officer of the Seller supervised a review of the Seller’s activities during
the Subject Period in respect of the following matters and has determined the following:
(a) except to the extent that (i) a representation or warranty speaks to a specific
date or (ii) the facts on which a representation or warranty is based have changed by
transactions or conditions contemplated or expressly permitted by the Repurchase Documents,
the representations and warranties of the Seller in the Current Repurchase Agreement and the
other Repurchase Documents are true and correct in all material respects, other than the
changes, if any, described on the attached Annex A;
Ex C-1
(b) no event has occurred which could reasonably be expected to have a materially
adverse effect on any of the Central Elements of the Seller.
(c) the Seller has complied with all of its obligations under the Repurchase Documents,
other than the deviations, if any, described on the attached Annex A; (c) no Event of
Default has occurred that has not been declared by the Administrative Agent in writing to
have been cured or waived, and no Default has occurred that has not been cured before it
became an Event of Default, other than those Events of Default and/or Defaults, if any,
described on the attached Annex A and (d) compliance by the Seller with the financial
covenants in Sections 17.12, 17.13, 17.14 and 17.15 of the Current Repurchase Agreement is
accurately calculated on the attached Annex A.
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ANNEX A TO OFFICER’S CERTIFICATE
1. Describe deviations from compliance with obligations, if any — clause 3(b) of attached
Officer’s Certificate — if none, so state:
2. Describe Defaults or Events of Default, if any — clause 3(c) of attached Officer’s
Certificate — if none, so state:
3. Calculate compliance with covenants in Section 17.12 through 17.15 of attached Officer’s
Certificate:
(a) Section 17.12. The Seller’s Tangible Net Worth as of is
$ (the minimum under Section 17.12 is $130,000,000.)
(b) Section 17.13. The ratio of Seller’s GAAP Indebtedness and Contingent Indebtedness
to Tangible Net Worth of the Seller on a consolidated basis with its Restricted
Subsidiaries, measured monthly is
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to 1.0 (the maximum ratio under Section 17.13 is
10.0:1.00.)
(c) Section 17.14. The Seller’s Net Income measured at the end of for the
six consecutive months then ended is $ (the minimum under Section 17.14 is $1.00).
(d) Section 17.15). The Seller’s liquidity (unrestricted cash, Cash Equivalents and
unused portion of the Maximum Aggregate Commitments for the month ended ,
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was $ (the minimum under Section 17.15is the greater of $17,500,000 or 5%
of outstanding amounts under the Master Repurchase Agreement and all other mortgage
warehouse, conduit or repurchase facilities of Seller).
4. Describe and give details regarding (i) notices received by Seller requesting or
demanding that Seller repurchase (or pay indemnity or other compensation in respect of)
Mortgage Loans previously sold or otherwise disposed of by the Seller to any Investor or
other Person pursuant to any express or implied repurchase or indemnity obligation as per
Section 16.5, and (ii) actual repurchase and indemnity payments made by Seller to any
Person. (attach schedule or explanation)
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Attachment to Exhibit C
Purchased Loans Curtailment Report
(List Purchased Loans on which unscheduled principal payment, prepayment or reduction of
more than one regularly scheduled principal and interest installment payment was
received since last monthly report and resulting new Principal Balance)
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EXHIBIT D
TO Master Repurchase Agreement
List of Restricted Subsidiaries of the Seller as of the Effective Date
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EXHIBIT E
TO Master Repurchase Agreement
FORM OF CORPORATION TAX TREATMENT CERTIFICATE
Reference is hereby made to the Master Repurchase Agreement dated as of March 27, 2008 (as
supplemented, amended or restated, supplemented from time to time, the “Agreement”), among DHI
Mortgage Company, Ltd. (the “Seller”), U.S. Bank National Association (“U.S. Bank”), as a buyer and
as Administrative Agent for the other buyers party thereto from time to time (the “Administrative
Agent”) and such other buyers (collectively with U.S. Bank, the “Buyers”). Pursuant to the
provisions of Section 7 of the Agreement, the undersigned hereby certifies that:
1. It is (one must be checked)
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a natural individual person
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treated as a corporation for
U.S. federal income tax purposes
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disregarded for federal income tax purposes (in which case a
copy of this Corporation Tax Treatment Certificate is attached in respect of its sole beneficial
owner)
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treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
2. It is the beneficial owner of amounts received pursuant to the Agreement.
3. It is not a bank, as such term is used in Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code
of 1986, as amended (the “Internal Revenue Code”), or the Agreement is not, with respect to the
undersigned, a loan agreement entered into in the ordinary course of its trade or business, within
the meaning of such section.
4. It is not a 10-percent stockholder of the Seller within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3) or
881(c)(3)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code.
5. It is not a controlled foreign corporation that is related to the Seller within the meaning
of Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Internal Revenue Code.
6. Amounts paid to it under the Repurchase Documents are not effectively connected with its
conduct of a trade or business in the United States.
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EXHIBIT F
TO Master Repurchase Agreement
ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION
This Assignment and Assumption (the “Assignment and Assumption”) is dated as of the Effective
Date set forth below and is entered into by and between [Insert name of Assignor] (the “Assignor”)
and [Insert name of Assignee] (the “Assignee”). Capitalized terms used but not defined herein
shall have the meanings given to them in the Amended and Restated Master Repurchase Agreement
identified below (as amended, the “Repurchase Agreement”), receipt of a copy of which is hereby
acknowledged by the Assignee. The Standard Terms and Conditions set forth in Annex 1 attached
hereto are hereby agreed to and incorporated herein by reference and made a part of this Assignment
and Assumption as if set forth herein in full.
For an agreed consideration, the Assignor hereby irrevocably sells and assigns to the
Assignee, and the Assignee hereby irrevocably purchases and assumes from the Assignor, subject to
and in accordance with the Standard Terms and Conditions and the Repurchase Agreement, as of the
Effective Date inserted by the Administrative Agent as contemplated below, (i) all of the
Assignor’s rights and obligations in its capacity as a Buyer under the Repurchase Agreement and any
other documents or instruments delivered pursuant thereto to the extent related to the amount and
percentage interest identified below of all of such outstanding rights and obligations of the
Assignor under the respective facilities identified below (including any letters of credit,
guarantees, and Swing Line Transactions included in such facilities) and (ii) to the extent
permitted to be assigned under applicable law, all claims, suits, causes of action and any other
right of the Assignor (in its capacity as a Buyer) against any Person, whether known or unknown,
arising under or in connection with the Repurchase Agreement, any other documents or instruments
delivered pursuant thereto or the Transactions governed thereby or in any way based on or related
to any of the foregoing, including Purchased Loans, contract claims, tort claims, malpractice
claims, statutory claims and all other claims at law or in equity related to the undivided
ownership interest in Purchased Loans and the other rights and obligations sold and assigned
pursuant to clause (i) above (the undivided ownership interest in Purchased Loans and all other
rights and obligations sold and assigned pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) above being referred to
herein collectively as the “Assigned Interest”). Such sale and assignment is without recourse to
the Assignor and, except as expressly provided in this Assignment and Assumption, without
representation or warranty by the Assignor.
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5. Repurchase Agreement: The Master Repurchase Agreement dated as of among [name of
Seller], the Buyers parties thereto and [name of Administrative Agent], as Administrative Agent
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[TO BE INSERTED BY THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND WHICH
SHALL BE THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF RECORDATION OF TRANSFER IN THE REGISTER THEREFOR.]
The terms set forth in this Assignment and Assumption are hereby agreed to:
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Ex F-2
[Consented to and] Accepted:
[NAME OF ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT], as Administrative Agent
[Consented to:]
[NAME OF RELEVANT PARTY]
Ex F-3
ANNEX 1
STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR
ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION
1. Representations and Warranties.
1.1
Assignor. The Assignor (a) represents and warrants that (i) it is the
legal and beneficial owner of the Assigned Interest, (ii) the Assigned Interest is free and
clear of any lien, encumbrance or other adverse claim and (iii) it has full power and
authority, and has taken all action necessary, to execute and deliver this Assignment and
Assumption and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby; and (b) assumes no
responsibility with respect to (i) any statements, warranties or representations made in or
in connection with the Repurchase Agreement or any other Repurchase Documents, (ii) the
execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of the
Repurchase Documents or any Transactions thereunder, (iii) the financial condition of the
Seller, any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates or any other Person obligated in respect of
any Repurchase Documents or (iv) the performance or observance by the Seller, any of its
Subsidiaries or Affiliates or any other Person of any of their respective obligations under
any Repurchase Document.
1.2.
Assignee. The Assignee (a) represents and warrants that (i) it has full
power and authority, and has taken all action necessary, to execute and deliver this
Assignment and Assumption and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and to
become a Buyer under the Repurchase Agreement, (ii) it satisfies the requirements, if any,
specified in the Repurchase Agreement that are required to be satisfied by it in order to
acquire the Assigned Interest and become a Buyer, (iii) from and after the Effective Date,
it shall be bound by the provisions of the Repurchase Agreement as a Buyer thereunder and,
to the extent of the Assigned Interest, shall have the obligations of a Buyer thereunder,
(iv) it has received a copy of the Repurchase Agreement, together with copies of the most
recent financial statements referred to in Section 15.2(f) thereof or delivered pursuant to
Section 16.3 thereof, as applicable, and such other documents and information as it has
deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this
Assignment and Assumption and to purchase the Assigned Interest on the basis of which it has
made such analysis and decision independently and without reliance on the Administrative
Agent, the assignor or any other Buyer, and (v) if it is a Person that is organized under
the Legal Requirements of any jurisdiction other than the United States of America or any
State thereof, attached to this Assignment and Assumption is any documentation required to
be delivered by it pursuant to the terms of the Repurchase Agreement, duly completed and
executed by the Assignee; and (b) agrees that (i) it will, independently and without
reliance on the Administrative Agent, the Assignor or any other Buyer, and based on such
documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own
credit decisions in taking or not taking action under the Repurchase Documents, and (ii) it
will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations which by the terms of the
Repurchase Documents are required to be performed by it as a Buyer.
Ex F-4
2. Payments. From and after the Effective Date, the Administrative Agent shall make
all payments in respect of the Assigned Interest (including payments of Repurchase Price, Price
Differential, fees and other amounts) to the Assignor for amounts which have accrued to but
excluding the Effective Date and to the Assignee for amounts which have accrued from and after the
Effective Date.
3. General Provisions. This Assignment and Assumption shall be binding upon, and
inure to the benefit of, the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns. This
Assignment and Assumption may be executed in any number of counterparts, which together shall
constitute one instrument. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this
Assignment and Assumption by telecopy shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed
counterpart of this Assignment and Assumption. This Assignment and Assumption shall be governed
by, and construed in accordance with, the law of the State of New York.
Ex F-5
SCHEDULE — AI
TO Master Repurchase Agreement
APPROVED INVESTORS
DHI Mortgage Company, LTD Approved Investors List
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S&P XX |
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Xxxxx’x |
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Related Parent Company |
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Product Approval |
Aurora Loan Services |
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Xxxxxx Brothers Holdings, Inc. |
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Conforming/Non-Conforming |
California Housing Finance Agency |
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N/A |
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N/A |
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Conforming/Non-Conforming |
Chase
Manhattan Bank USA, N.A. |
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A-1+ |
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P-1 |
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JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. |
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Conforming/Non-Conforming |
Citimortgage, Inc. |
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A-1 |
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P-1 |
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Citigroup, Inc. |
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Conforming/Non-Conforming |
Colorado Housing & Finance Authority |
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N/A |
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N/A |
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Conforming/Non-Conforming |
Countrywide
Home Loans, Inc. |
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Countrywide Financial Corp. |
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Conforming |
Deutsche Bank AG |
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P-1 |
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Conforming/Non-Conforming |
EMC Mortgage Corporation |
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Bear Steams Companies, Inc. |
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Conforming/Non-Conforming |
Federal Home
Loan Mortgage Corp. |
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P-1 |
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Conforming/Non-Conforming |
First Horizon Home Loan Corporation |
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A-1 |
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P-1 |
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First Tennessee Bank, N.A. |
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Conforming/Non-Conforming |
Georgia Housing & Finance Authority |
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N/A |
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N/A |
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Conforming/Non-Conforming |
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Group |
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Conforming/Non-Conforming |
IndyMac Bank |
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N/A |
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Xxxxxx Brothers |
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A-1 |
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P-1 |
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Xxxxxx Brothers Holdings, Inc. |
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Conforming/Non-Conforming |
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Mortgage Capital |
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P-1 |
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Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx |
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Conforming/Non-Conforming |
National
City Mortgage Co. |
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A-1 |
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National City Corporation |
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Conforming/Non-Conforming |
North Carolina Housing Finance |
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Conforming/Non-Conforming |
South
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UBS Investment Bank |
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UBS AG |
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Conforming/Non-Conforming |
Wachovia Mortgage Corporation |
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Conforming/Non-Conforming |
Washington
Mutual Bank, F.A. |
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Conforming/Non-Conforming |
Xxxxx Fargo
Bank, N.A. |
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SCHEDULE AR
TO Master Repurchase Agreement
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Schedule AR
DHI Mortgage Company, Ltd.
Authorized Seller Representatives
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PERSONNEL AUTHORIZED TO SIGN (A) CORPORATE ASSIGNMENTS, (B)
INSTRUMENTS, (C) COLLATERAL CERTIFICATES, REPORTS, AND DIRECTIONS AS TO THE SHIPMENT OF COLLATERAL
TO INVESTORS, OR (D) OTHER DOCUMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE PURCHASED LOANS UNDER THE
MASTER REPURCHASE AGREEMENT:
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Assistant Secretary |
Xxxxxxxxxx, Virginia
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Assistant Secretary |
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx X.
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Assistant Secretary |
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx
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VP, Compliance Manager |
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx
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Assistant Secretary |
Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxx
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Assistant Secretary |
Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx
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AS, Closer |
XxXxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx
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Assistant Secretary |
Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx X.
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Assistant Secretary |
Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx X.
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Assistant Secretary |
Hannah, Liberty
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Assistant Secretary |
Xxxxxx, Xxxxx X.
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Assistant Secretary |
Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx
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Assistant Secretary |
Xxxxxx, Xxxxx
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Assistant Secretary |
Xxxxxxxx, Xxx X.
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Assistant Secretary |
Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxx
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Assistant Secretary |
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx X.
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Assistant Secretary |
Xxxxxx, Xxx
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AS, Asst Post Closing Mgr |
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx
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Assistant Secretary |
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx X.
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Assistant Secretary |
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx
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Assistant Secretary |
Xxxxx, Xxx
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Assistant Secretary |
Xxxxxx, Xxxx
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EVP, CFO |
Xxxxx, Xxxx
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VP, Controller |
PERSONNEL AUTHORIZED TO PROVIDE TELEPHONIC NOTICE TO THE AGENT
REQUESTING TRANSACTIONS AND REPURCHASES UNDER THE MASTER REPURCHASE AGREEMENT AND PERSONNEL
AUTHORIZED TO SIGN AND SUBMIT WRITTEN CONFIRMATION OF PURCHASE TRANSACTIONS AND RELATED
REPURCHASES AND PURCHASE PRICE DECREASES UNDER THE MASTER REPURCHASE AGREEMENT:
AR-1
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Xxxxx, Xxxx
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Assistant Secretary |
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx
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Assistant Secretary |
Xxx, Xxxxxx
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Assistant Secretary |
Present, Xxxxxxx X.
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Xxxxx, Xxxx
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VP, Controller |
Xxxxx, Xxxx
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The above listed Persons are Authorized Seller Representatives, as defined in the Master
Repurchase Agreement dated as of March 27, 2008 (as supplemented, amended or restated from time to
time, the “Current Repurchase Agreement”) among DHI Mortgage Company, Ltd. (the “Seller”), U.S.
Bank National Association (“U.S. Bank”) as a buyer and as agent and representative of the other
buyers party thereto (in that capacity, U.S. Bank is referred to as the “Administrative Agent”) and
the other buyers party thereto (together with U.S. Bank, the “Buyers”) as of the effective date of
this list stated above. The Buyers and the Administrative Agent, as well as the Custodian under
the Custody Agreement dated March 27, 2008 among the Seller, the Administrative Agent and U.S.
Bank, as documents custodian (the “Custodian”) shall be entitled to rely on this list until it is
superseded by a newer list signed and furnished by the Seller to the Administrative Agent and the
Custodian.
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SCHEDULE BC
TO Master Repurchase Agreement
The Buyers’ Committed Sums
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JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association |
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Bank of America, N.A. |
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SCHEDULE BP
TO Master Repurchase Agreement
LIST OF BASIC PAPERS
The following are the Basic Papers for Purchased Loans:
(a) the original Mortgage Note, bearing all intervening endorsements to negotiate it from the
original payee named therein to the Seller and endorsed by the Seller as follows:
Pay To The Order Of
Without Recourse
[SELLER’S NAME]
[signature]
[name, title]
(b) the recorded original or a Certified Copy of the power of attorney for each maker of the
Mortgage Note who (if any) did not personally execute the Mortgage Note and for whom the Mortgage
Note was executed by an attorney-in-fact;
(c) the recorded original or a Certified Copy of the Mortgage securing such Mortgage Note;
(d) originals or Certified Copies of all intervening assignments (if any) reflecting a
complete chain of assignment of such Mortgage from the original mortgagee to the Seller;
provided that intervening assignments are not required for any Mortgage that has been
originated in the name of MERS and registered under the MERS® System; and
(e) the signed original of a Mortgage Assignment assigning the Mortgage in blank in a form
that is complete so as to be recordable in the jurisdiction where the Mortgaged Premises are
located without the need for completion of any blanks or supplying of any other information;
provided that no Mortgage Assignment is required for any Mortgage that has been originated
in the name of MERS and registered under the MERS® System with U.S. Bank as Interim Funder.
BP-1
SCHEDULE DQ
TO 12/07 Repurchase Agreement
DISQUALIFIERS
“Disqualifier” means any of the following events; after the occurrence of any Disqualifier,
unless the Administrative Agent shall have waived it, or declared it cured, in writing, the Market
Value of the affected Purchased Loan shall be deemed to be zero, and the Administrative Agent shall
be deemed to have marked such Purchased Loan to market:
1. Any event occurs, or is discovered to have occurred, after which the affected Purchased
Loan fails to satisfy any element of the definition of “Eligible Loan”.
2. In respect of any Purchased Loan, for any reason whatsoever any of the Seller’s special
representations concerning Purchased Loans set forth in Section 15.3 applicable to that
type of Purchased Loan shall become untrue, or shall be discovered to be untrue, in any respect
that is material to the value or collectability of that Purchased Loan, considered either by itself
or together with other Purchased Loans.
3. Any Purchased Loan shall become In Default.
4. Seven (7) Business Days shall have elapsed after the Purchase Date upon which a Wet Loan
has been sold to the Buyers without all of the Wet Loan’s Basic Papers having been received by the
Custodian.
5. For any Purchased Loan, any Basic Paper shall have been sent to the Seller or its designee
for correction, collection or other action and shall not have been returned to the Custodian on or
before nineteen (19) days after it was so sent to the Seller.
6. Any Purchased Loan shall be assumed by (or otherwise become the liability) of, or the real
property securing it shall become owned by, any corporation, partnership or any other entity that
is not a natural person or a trust for natural persons unless payment in full of such Purchased
Loan is guaranteed by a natural person. The Administrative Agent, the Buyers and Custodian may
rely on the Seller’s representation and warranty that no Purchased Loans have been so assumed by
(or otherwise become the liability of) such a Person except as otherwise specified by written
notice(s) to the Custodian.
8. Any Purchased Loan shall be assumed by (or otherwise become the liability of), or the real
property securing it shall become owned by, an Affiliate of the Seller or any of the Seller’s or
its Affiliates’ directors, managers, members or officers. The Administrative Agent, the Buyers and
Custodian may rely on the Seller’s representation and warranty that no Purchased Loans have been so
assumed by (or otherwise become the liability of) such a Person except as otherwise specified by
written notice(s) to the Custodian.
9. Any Purchased Loan shipped to an Approved Investor shall not be paid for or returned to the
Custodian or the Administrative Agent (whichever shipped it) on or before forty-five (45) days
after it is shipped.
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10. More than 120 days shall have elapsed since the Purchase Date of a Conforming Mortgage
Loan, an Alt-A Agency Loan or a Jumbo Mortgage Loan.
11. More than 90 days shall have elapsed since the Purchase Date of an Alt-A Non-Agency Loan,
a Second Lien Loan, a HELOC, a Super Jumbo Mortgage Loan, an Agency-eligible Non-Owner Occupied
Loan and a 40 Year Mortgage Loan.
12. More than 120 days shall have elapsed since the Purchase Date of any Mortgage Loan made in
conjunction with a bond program.
13. Any Purchased Loan that is shipped to the Seller for correction of one or more Basic
Papers when the Purchase Value of all Purchased Loans so shipped to the Seller exceeds $10,000,000.
14. Any Purchased Loan is listed on a Custodian’s Exception Report and the Administrative
Agent has not exercised its discretion to exclude such Purchased Loan from this list of
Disqualifiers under Section 22.5(a) (for avoidance of doubt, this means a Purchased Loan is
subject to discrepancies, inconsistencies or has documents that are incomplete).
DQ-2
SCHEDULE EL
TO Master Repurchase Agreement
ELIGIBLE LOANS
“Eligible Loans” means Single-family Loans that are amortizing Conforming Mortgage Loans with
original terms to stated maturities of thirty (30) years or less (except for Agency-eligible Forty
Year Loans) and that satisfy all applicable requirements of this Agreement for Conforming Mortgage
Loans and shall also mean Single-family Loans that are HELOCS, Second Lien Loans, Alt-A Agency
Loans, Alt-A Non-Agency Loans, Agency-eligible Forty Year Loans, Jumbo Mortgage Loans, Super Jumbo
Mortgage Loans and Non-owner Occupied Mortgage Loans that otherwise meet all criteria for Eligible
Loans set forth on this Schedule EL and are not subject to a Disqualifier. Unless it is a Second
Lien Loan or a HELOC, it must be secured by a first priority Lien on its related Mortgaged
Premises, and if it is a Second Lien Loan or a HELOC, it must be a Piggyback Loan. It may bear
interest at a fixed interest rate, at a fluctuating interest rate or at a fixed or fluctuating
interest rate for part of its term followed, respectively, by a fluctuating or fixed interest rate
for the remainder of its term. No Mortgage Loan shall be an Eligible Loan at any time:
(1) If the Mortgaged Premises securing it is a mobile home, manufactured housing, or
cooperative housing unit.
(2) That does not satisfy the Seller’s Underwriting Guidelines for a Single-Family Loan
in all material respects.
(3) That contains or is otherwise subject to any contractual restriction or prohibition
on the free transferability of such Mortgage Loan, all Liens securing it and all related
rights (other than Legal Requirements requiring notification to its obligor(s) of any
transfer of it or of its servicing or administration), either absolutely or as security.
(4) If any of its owners-mortgagors is a corporation, partnership or any other entity
that is not a natural person or a trust for natural persons unless its full payment when due
is guaranteed by a natural person.
(5) If any of its owner-mortgagors is an Affiliate of the Seller or any of the Seller’s
or any such Affiliate’s directors, members, managers or officers.
(6) Whose related Mortgaged Premises are not covered by a Hazard Insurance Policy.
(7) That is a construction, rehabilitation or commercial loan. The Administrative
Agent, Buyers and Custodian may rely on the Seller’s representation and warranty that no
Purchased Loan is such a loan.
(8) That is not a Conforming Mortgage Loan and is not subject to a Hedge Agreement or
that is not eligible for purchase by an Agency and is not eligible for purchase by two
Approved Investors.
EL-1
(9) That is a HELOC or Second Lien Loan that is not a Prime Loan.
(10) That was originated more than thirty (30) days before its Purchase Date.
(11) That is In Default or ever was In Default.
(12) That contains any term or condition such that the repayment schedule results in
the outstanding principal balance increasing over time, rather than amortizing, whether or
not such Mortgage Loan is deemed to be an “option ARM”, “negative amortization” or
“graduated payment” loan. The Administrative Agent, the Buyers and the Custodian may rely
on the Seller’s representation and warranty that any Mortgage Loan duly sold to the Buyers
amortizes over time.
(13) In connection with the origination of which a policy of single-premium life
insurance on the life of a mortgagor, borrower or guarantor was purchased.
(14) That (i) is subject to the special Truth-in-Lending disclosure requirements
imposed by Section 32 of Regulation Z of the Federal Reserve Board (12 C.F.R. § 226.32) or
any similar state or local Law relating to high interest rate credit or lending transactions
or (ii) contains any term or condition, or involves any loan origination practice, that (1)
has been defined as “high cost”, “high risk”, “predatory”, “covered”, “threshold” or a
similar term under any such applicable federal, state or local law, (2) has been expressly
categorized as an “unfair” or “deceptive” term, condition or practice in any such applicable
federal, state or local law (or the regulations promulgated thereunder) or (3) by the terms
of such Law exposes assignees of Mortgage Loans to possible civil or criminal liability or
damages or exposes any Buyer or the Administrative Agent to regulatory action or enforcement
proceedings, penalties or other sanctions. The Administrative Agent, Buyers and Custodian
may rely on the Seller’s representation and warranty that no Purchased Loan is such a loan.
(15) That the Seller or any Affiliate has previously warehoused with any other Person,
whether under a lending arrangement or an arrangement involving a sale in contemplation of a
subsequent further sale to (or securitization by) a secondary mortgage market purchaser,
whether with or without the Seller’s having any conditional repurchase or other recourse
obligation, and that was rejected or became ineligible or disqualified to be lent against or
purchased and held by such other Person; provided that this provision shall not be construed
or applied to disqualify a Purchased Loan simply because it was purchased by the Seller out
of a pool of Serviced Loans or from a whole loan investor for whose Mortgage Loans the
Seller is a Servicer pursuant to the Seller’s (or an Affiliate’s) obligation or election as
Servicer to do so. The Administrative Agent, Buyers and Custodian may rely on the Seller’s
representation and warranty that no Purchased Loan is such a loan.
(16) That the Seller or any Affiliate sold and transferred, or attempted to sell and
transfer, to any other Person; provided that this provision shall not be construed or
applied to disqualify a Purchased Loan simply because it was purchased by the Seller out of
a pool of Serviced Loans or from a whole loan investor for whose Mortgage Loans the
Seller is a Servicer pursuant to the Seller’s (or an Affiliate’s) obligation or election as Servicer to do so. The Administrative Agent, Buyers and Custodian may rely on the Seller’s representation and warranty that no Purchased Loan is such a loan.
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(17) Except qualifying Conforming Mortgage Loans, FHA Loans and VA Loans, that has a
Cumulative Loan-to-Value Ratio greater than ninety-five percent (95%) and for qualifying
Conforming Mortgage Loans, FHA Loans and VA Loans, that has a Cumulative Loan-to Value-Ratio
greater than one hundred three percent (103%).
(18) That (i) is not a Conforming Mortgage Loan secured by a first Lien Mortgage,
(ii) has a Cumulative Loan to-Value Ratio greater than eighty percent (80%) and (iii) is not
guaranteed by VA, is not insured by FHA or private mortgage insurance provided by a provider
acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Syndication Agent (the Administrative Agent,
Syndication Agent, Buyers and the Custodian may rely on the Seller’s representation and
warranty in Section 15.3(n) as to whether this condition is satisfied for any such Purchased
Loan).
(19) As to which any Disqualifier exists.
(20) Unless all of the Seller’s right, title and interest in and to the Purchased Loan
is subject to a first priority perfected security interest in favor of the Administrative
Agent for the benefit of the Buyers subject to no other liens, security interests, charges
or encumbrances other than the Seller’s right to repurchase the Purchased Loan hereunder.
(21) Unless all the representations and warranties set forth in this Agreement,
including, without limitation, Section 15.3 and Schedule 15.3 are true and
correct with respect to such Purchased Loan at all times on and after the related Purchase
Date.
(22) If such Mortgage Loan is not a Conforming Mortgage Loan, Seller has materially
changed Seller’s Underwriting Guidelines for such Mortgage Loan and the Administrative Agent
and Syndication Agent have not approved such changes.
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SCHEDULE UG-SSF
TO Master Repurchase Agreement
The Seller’s Underwriting Guidelines for Single-family Loans are set forth in a separate
binder that the Seller will deliver to the Administrative Agent and Syndication Agent, upon
request.
UG-SSF-1
SCHEDULE 15.2(f)
TO Master Repurchase Agreement
MATERIAL ADVERSE CHANGES AND CONTINGENT LIABILITIES
1. Material adverse changes and material unrealized losses since the Statement Date, as
referred to in Section 15.2(f): None
2. Contingent liabilities as of the Effective Date, as referred to in Section 15.2(f):
None
15.2(f)-1
SCHEDULE 15.2(g)
TO Master Repurchase Agreement
PENDING LITIGATION
None
15.2(g)-1
SCHEDULE 15.2(o)
TO Master Repurchase Agreement
EXISTING LIENS
None
15.2(o)-1
SCHEDULE 15.2(q)
TO Master Repurchase Agreement
Seller’s Plans
No ERISA Plans other than welfare benefit plans
15.2(q)-1
Schedule 15.3
TO Master Repurchase Agreement
Special representations and warranties with respect to each Purchased Loan
As of the related Purchase Date, for each Purchased Loan the Seller makes the following
representations and warranties:
(a) The information with respect to each Purchased Loan set forth in the related
Mortgage Loan Transmission File is true and correct as of the date specified in all material
respects.
(b) The Seller is the sole legal and equitable owner (except in the case of MERS
Designated Loans, as to which MERS, as nominee for the Seller and its successors and
assigns, is the record owner), free and clear of all Liens other than Permitted
Encumbrances, of all Mortgage Loans to be sold to the Buyers by the Seller pursuant to this
Agreement and has full right to sell such Mortgage Loans to the Buyers.
(c) All Purchased Loans, including Wet Loans, have been duly authorized and validly
created.
(d) Each of the Purchased Loans sold to the Buyers by the Seller complies with all of
the requirements of this Agreement and the Custody Agreement and is genuine and what it
purports to be.
(e) All information concerning each item or grouping of Purchased Loans listed in any
Loan Schedule or in a Mortgage Loan Transmission File sent to the Administrative Agent or
the Custodian was, is and/or shall be (as applicable) true and complete in all material
respects as of the date of such Loan Schedule or Mortgage Loan Transmission File.
(f) The Seller has complied and will continue to comply in all material respects with
all Legal Requirements relating to each Purchased Loan.
(g) Each Mortgage Note and Mortgage related to a Purchased Loan, including Wet Loans,
has been duly (i) endorsed or assigned to the Seller and (ii) endorsed or assigned by the
Seller in blank (assignment of the Mortgage in blank is not required when MERS is designated
in the Mortgage as the original mortgagee or the nominee of the original mortgagee, its
successors and assigns) and delivered (or in the case of Wet Loans are in the process of
being delivered) to the Custodian.
(h) All Basic Papers for each Purchased Loan (except Wet Loans) will be transmitted to
the Custodian with the Request/Confirmation with which it is submitted for purchase.
(i) Each assignment to the Administrative Agent of the Lien securing any Purchased Loan
will be in proper and sufficient form for recording in the appropriate government office in
the U.S. jurisdiction where the related Mortgaged Premises are
located (no such assignment is required for any Mortgage that has been originated in
the name of MERS and registered under the MERS® System).
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(j) The Seller has and will continue to have the full right, power and authority to
sell the Purchased Loans to the Buyers, and the Purchased Loans sold and to be sold to the
Buyers by the Seller under this Agreement or pursuant to it may be further sold, resold,
assigned and reassigned to any Person or Persons without any requirement for the further
consent of the Seller or the consent of any other party to any of the Loan Papers or
obligated in respect of the Purchased Loans.
(k) The Seller will maintain the Lien on the real estate described in, or referred to
as covered by, each Purchased Loan as a Lien having the priority represented by the Seller
to the Administrative Agent or the Custodian, subject only to the Permitted Encumbrances,
until that Purchased Loan shall have been repurchased by the Seller.
(l) Each Purchased Loan is covered by an ALTA mortgage title insurance policy or such
other form of title insurance as is acceptable to Xxxxxx Xxx or Xxxxxxx Mac, issued by and
constituting the valid and binding obligation of a title insurer that is generally
acceptable to prudent mortgage lenders who regularly originate or purchase Mortgage Loans
comparable to the Purchased Loans that are for sale to prudent investors in the secondary
market in which investors invest in Mortgage Loans such as the Purchased Loan insuring the
Seller, its successors and assigns, as to the first priority (or, in the case of a second
lien Loan, second priority) of the Lien of the Mortgage on the related Mortgaged Premises,
in an amount equal to the original principal amount of such Purchased Loan. The Seller is
the sole named insured of such mortgage title insurance policy, the assignment to the
Administrative Agent of the Seller’s interest in such policy does not require the consent of
or notice to the insurer (or such consent has been obtained or notice given), and such
policy is and will be in full force and effect and inure to the benefit of the
Administrative Agent as and when such Purchased Loan is sold to the Buyers. No claims have
been made under such policy and no prior holder of the Purchased Loan, including the Seller,
has done, by act or omission, anything that would impair the coverage of such policy.
(m) The Mortgaged Premises securing each Purchased Loan are capable of being lawfully
occupied under applicable Laws, all inspections, licenses and certificates required to be
made or issued with respect to all occupied portions of such Mortgaged Premises and, with
respect to the use and occupancy of the same, including certificates of occupancy and fire
underwriting certificates, have been made or obtained from the appropriate Governmental
Authority.
(n) Each Purchased Loan that is not a Conforming Mortgage Loan secured by a first
Mortgage Lien that has a Cumulative Loan-to-Value Ratio greater than eighty percent (80%) is
either guaranteed by VA or insured by FHA or private mortgage insurance provided by an
insurer approved by the Administrative Agent and the Syndication Agent.
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(o) The Seller has no knowledge of any circumstances or conditions with respect to the
Mortgage, the Mortgaged Premises or the Customer in respect of any Purchased Loan (other
than the Customer’s credit standing) that can reasonably be expected to cause private
institutional investors that regularly invest in Mortgage Loans similar to such Purchased
Loan to regard such Purchased Loan as an unacceptable investment or adversely affect the
value or marketability of such Purchased Loan to other similar institutional investors.
(p) Each Purchased Loan’s Mortgage contains an enforceable provision for acceleration
of the maturity of the unpaid principal balance thereof in the event that the Mortgaged
Premises are sold or transferred without the prior written consent of the holder thereof.
(q) No Purchased Loan contains provisions pursuant to which monthly payments are paid
in whole or in part with funds deposited in any separate account established by the Seller,
the relevant Customer or anyone on behalf of the Customer, or paid by any source other than
the Customer, or any other similar provisions currently in effect that effectively
constitute a “buydown” provision.
(r) No Purchased Loan is a graduated payment Mortgage Loan or has a shared appreciation
or other contingent interest feature.
(s) All interest rate adjustments, if any, in respect of each Purchased Loan have been
made in strict compliance with applicable Law and the terms of the related Mortgage Note,
and any interest required to be paid pursuant to applicable Law has been properly paid and
credited.
(t) No Customer in respect of any Purchased Loan has notified the Seller, and the
Seller has no knowledge, of any relief requested by or allowed to such Customer under the
Servicemembers’ Civil Relief Act of 2003.
(u) The Seller used no selection procedures that identified the Eligible Loans relating
to a Transaction as being less desirable or valuable than other comparable assets in
Seller’s portfolio on the related Purchase Date, and no Purchased Loan was selected for
inclusion in a Transaction on any basis that was intended to have a material adverse effect
on the Buyers or the Administrative Agent.
(v) No Purchased Loan is subject to a bankruptcy plan.
(w) Each Purchased Loan is a “qualified mortgage” within the meaning of §860G(a)(3) of
the Internal Revenue Code.
(x) All Purchased Loans and all related papers included in the Purchased Loans:
(1) were originated by the Seller, a duly licensed mortgage lender in the
ordinary course of its business;
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(2) have been made in compliance with all applicable requirements of the Real
Estate Settlement Procedures Act, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the federal
Truth-In-Lending Act, the Fair Credit Billing Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act,
related statutes and regulations and all applicable Legal Requirements under usury,
truth-in-lending, equal credit opportunity and all other Laws, and the continued
compliance of the Purchased Loans is not affected by their sale to the Buyers;
(3) are the legal, valid and binding obligations of the respective Customers
who entered into them and are and will continue to be valid and enforceable in
accordance with their terms, without any claim, right of rescission, counterclaim,
defense or offset, including any claim or defense of usury, except as such
enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy and other laws affecting the rights of
creditors generally and by principles of equity, excepting rights that, by
applicable law, cannot be waived, and neither the operation of any of their
respective contract terms nor the exercise of any right thereunder will render any
of them partly or wholly unenforceable or subject to any such claim, right of
rescission, counterclaim, defense or offset, and no such claim, right of rescission,
counterclaim, defense or setoff has been asserted;
(4) have not been modified or amended and none of their requirements has been
waived, except as expressly and completely reflected in the applicable Loan Papers
furnished to the Custodian;
(5) have fair market values equal to or greater than the Purchase Price
respectively attributed or allocated to them under this Agreement on the Purchase
Date;
(6) comply and will continue to comply with the terms of this Agreement and the
Custody Agreement;
(7) were not originated in, and are not subject to the laws of, any
jurisdiction whose laws (i) make unlawful their sale to the Buyers pursuant to this
Agreement, or (ii) render the Purchased Loans unenforceable;
(8) are in full force and effect and have not been satisfied or subordinated in
whole or in part or rescinded, and the residential real property securing each
Purchased Loan has not been partially or completely released from the Lien of such
Purchased Loan;
(9) evidence and are each secured by a valid first Lien, or if applicable a
second Lien, in favor of the Seller on real property securing the amount owed by the
Customer(s) under the related Mortgage, subject only to Permitted Encumbrances;
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(10) are each executed in full accordance with all requirements of the
applicable Laws of the jurisdiction in which the related Mortgaged Premises are
located, with the Mortgage for each being (i) duly acknowledged and sealed by
such official and in such manner and form as to be both recordable and
effective under such Laws to give such constructive notice to all Persons as shall
be necessary to establish and continue the Lien of such Mortgage with the priority
that the Seller represents it has to the Administrative Agent and (ii) so recorded,
and with the Mortgage Note, Mortgage and all related papers executed with the
genuine original signature(s) of the Customer(s) obligated on such Purchased Loan,
and all parties to each such Purchased Loan had full legal capacity to execute it;
(11) are secured by Single-family residential property;
(12) are the subject of a Current Appraisal or a Current Broker’s Price Opinion
of which the Seller has possession and will make available to the Custodian on
request, and the Seller has in its possession and will make available to the
Custodian on request evidence of such value and how it was determined;
(13) are not subject to the Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act of 1994;
(y) As to each Purchased Loan and its Loan Papers:
(1) the Loan Papers contain customary and enforceable provisions so as to
render the rights and remedies of their holder adequate for the realization against
the Purchased Loan of the benefits of the security intended to be provided by it;
(2) there is only one original executed Mortgage Note, and, except in the case
of Wet Loans, that original has been delivered to the Custodian;
(3) none of its makers or mortgagors is an Affiliate of the Seller or any of
its or its Subsidiaries’ directors or officers;
(4) does not contain any term or condition such that the repayment schedule
results in the outstanding principal balance increasing over time, rather than
amortizing, whether or not such Purchased Loan is deemed to be an “option ARM”,
“negative amortization” or “graduated payment” loan. The Administrative Agent and
the Custodian may rely on the Seller’s representation and warranty that any
Purchased Loan amortizes over time.
(z) Each Mortgage is a Lien on the premises and property described in it having the
priority represented to the Administrative Agent, and the description of the Mortgaged
Premises in each Mortgage is legally adequate and each Purchased Loan, other than a HELOC,
has been fully advanced in its face amount.
(aa) No default, and no event that with notice or lapse of time or both would become a
default, has occurred and is continuing in respect of any Purchased Loan except as to which
the Seller has given notice to the Administrative Agent (by reporting Purchased Loans that
are delinquent Mortgage Loans), and if any such default or event
has occurred, it has not continued for more than thirty (30) days, reckoned and counted
from the most recent month end, and the Seller will promptly notify the Administrative Agent
of any such Purchased Loan that is in default for a longer period of time.
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(bb) The Mortgaged Premises in each Mortgage is insured by a fire and extended perils
insurance policy and such other hazards as are customary in the area where the Mortgaged
Property is located or customary under Seller’s servicing procedures and the amount of the
insurance is in the amount of the full insurable value of the Mortgaged Property on a
replacement cost basis or the unpaid balance of the Mortgage Loans, whichever is less. If
the Mortgaged Property is in an area identified by any federal governmental authority as
having special flood hazards, and flood insurance is available, a flood insurance policy
meeting the current guidelines of the Federal Insurance Administration is in effect. All
such insurance policies (collectively, the “hazard insurance policy”) contain a
standard mortgage clause naming the originator and its successors and assigns (including
subsequent owners of the Mortgage Loan), as mortgagee
(cc) Each Purchased Loan is covered by an Investor Commitment and is eligible and
qualified for refinancing on or before seven (7) Business Days after its Purchase Date under
a committed Mortgage Loan repurchase or warehousing agreement between the Seller and a
repurchase agreement counterparty or warehouse lender other than the Buyers.
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SCHEDULE 16.1
TO Master Repurchase Agreement
Market Analysis Report
The Market Analysis Report shall contain the following fields:
1. Lender code
2. Loan ID
3. Borrower Name
4. Address
5. City
6. State
7. Zip Code
8. Loan Amount
9. Purchase Value (initial)
10. Production stage (wet or dry)
11. Credit Grade
12. Amortization Code
13. Investor Code
14. Acquisition cost
15. Mortgage Date
16. Interest rate
17. FICO
18. Lien
19. Sale Date
20. Age from sale date
21. Aging days
22. Branch code
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24. Region
25. Sublimit
27. DHI Investor Code
28. Amortization term
29. Borrower FICO
30. CLTV Ratio
31. Current rate
32. Documentation type
33. First Payment Date
34. Interest only flag
35. Interest only term in months
36. Lien Position
37. LTV Ratio
38. Owner Occupancy
39. Next payment due date
40. Prepayment description
41. Prepayment penalty years
42. Product Description
43. Property type
44. State
45. Unpaid balance
46. Appraisal value
47. ARM First Pay Adjust Date
48. ARM First Rate Adjust Date
49. ARM Initial Pay Teaser Period
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50. ARM Margin
51. ARM Pay Adjust Freq.
52. ARM Rate Adjust Freq
53. Balloon flag
54. Credit Grade
55. DTI Ratio
56. First periodic cap
57. Floor
58. Life Cap
59. Maturity Date
60. Maximum Rate
61. Negam Flag
62. Original Rate
63. Funded
64. Payment paid thru
65. Periodic cap
66. Purchase Price
67. Total units
68. Unpaid Balance curr senior
69. Unpaid balance original
70. DU result
71. LP Doc Class
72. LP Purch Elig
73. LP Risk Class
74. First time HB
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75. MI Company
76. MI Percent
77. Self employed
78. LPMI flag
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SCHEDULE 23
TO Master Repurchase Agreement
Buyers’ Addresses for Notice
As of March 27, 0000
Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxx xx Xxxxxxx
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx
XX0-000-00-00
Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Tel: (000) 000-0000
Fax: (000) 000-0000
xxxxx.x.xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Xxxxxx Xxxx
Comerica Bank
One Detroit Center
000 Xxxxxxxx Xxx.
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Tel: (000) 000-0000
Fax: (000) 000-0000
xxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Xxxxx Xxxx
Lloyds TSB Bank plc
0000 Xxxxxx xx xxx Xxxxxxxx
00xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Tel: (000) 000-0000
Fax: [000-000-0000]
xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx-xxx.xxx
Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx
X.X. Xxxxxx Securities Inc.
MortgageFinance/Securitized Products Group
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
00xx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Tel: 000.000.0000
Fax:
xxxx.xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxxxxx.xxx
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx
U.S. Bank National Association
000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxx — XX-XX-X00X
Xxxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
Tel: (000) 000-0000
Fax: (000) 000-0000
xxxxx.xxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx
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Company Contacts:
Xxxx Xxxxxx / Xxxx Xxxxx
DHI Mortgage
00000 Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxx,Xxxxx 00000
Tel: (000) 000-0000 / 1382
Fax: (000) 000-0000
xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Xxxx Xxxxxxx
X.X. Xxxxxx, Inc.
000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 000
Xx. Xxxxx, XX 00000
Tel: (000) 000-0000
Fax: (000) 000-0000
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
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